AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton’s fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese’s mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.
DOCUMENTARY: In a rigorous collection of essays, The Companion offers an in-depth, global examination of central historical issues and approaches in the field of documentary.
PROTEST: The goals and contradictions of a modern protest movement – the yellow vests.
CONTROL: In a violent society, Serbian director Filip Čolović seeks to make sense of his brother’s murder.
CONTROL: A dystopic visual essay reflecting on the filmmaker’s children’s future in a technological world.
CONTROL: The Léa Rogliano and Pierre Hujoel Documentary What the Eye Doesn’t See is an inspiring work for extensive reflections.
CONTROL: Years after its fall, the remains of the GDR socialist education are pasted over, hidden, and forgotten.
CONTROL: In Communist Poland, revolt intensifies as workers strike over food price increases while tension builds in the dignitaries’ offices.
RUSSIA: On the margins of state control, Ostrov – Lost Island is an evocative portrait of an imperilled Russian community.
CONTROL: (Nominated for Oscar!) A brief, yet far-reaching, glimpse into the 2019 Hong Kong protests as demonstrations escalate into conflict.
CONTROL: The brave and peaceful resistance from an underground theatre before and during the Belarusian presidential election protests.
CONTROL: In October 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never came out, leaving his fiancée and an international community of dissidents to piece together clues to his murder.