Good People
CORRUPTION: Survivors of North Macedonia’s deadliest nightclub fire speak directly to camera in Milcho Manchevski’s self-funded response to a corruption scandal he lived through himself.
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The Gardener, the Buddhist & the Spy
CONTROL: A corporate spy embeds with environmental activists, flips (sort of), and drags an asbestos empire into view. What follows isn’t a clean exposé but a knot of moral grey zones.
Flowers of Ukraine
UKRAINE: On the outskirts of Kyiv, a woman in her 70s demonstrates her love of freedom.
The Dark Money Game
CORRUPTION: A scathing two-part exposé reveals how political bribery, dark money, and judicial capture have hollowed out American democracy from the inside.
The Bibi Files
CORRUPTION: Alexis Bloom’s gripping exposé of the web of lies apparently woven by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid corruption charges shows how one man’s fear of jail has led to war and instability in the Middle East.
The destructive borders of European self-interest
MIGRATION: At the entrance to the Sahara, Agadez, Niger, reveals the human cost of EU migration policy.
Why are the youth in Iraq protesting?
IRAQ: In Iraq, the youth don’t trust the politicians or the parties. We met the director and producer of Baghdad on Fire, which addresses the bad governance of their country’s leaders and the mobilisation of the youth who really fight for change.
The perilous path of exposing corruption
IRAN: Examining Iran’s lack of free media and the risks faced by those, like Roohallah Zam, who dare to challenge the clerical elite’s authority.
Reimagining Russia
RUSSIA: Mikhail Khodorkovsky discusses Russia’s future post-Putin, advocating for revolution, democracy, and equitable resource distribution.
A mother’s life and passion: Anna Politkovskaya
RUSSIA: Anna Politkovskaya’s daughter: “My greatest wish is to experience Russia as a thriving, free and developed country, not desolate, poor and militarised.”
