B2B Doc Launch Pad Pitching sees 12 film projects pitched representing the Baltic and Black Sea region
On 4 June 2021, the Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network (B2B Doc) welcomed 25 filmmakers to Kyiv’s 50th Molodist
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Different flags – same motherfuckers
ACTIVISM: A rough but cheerful taxi driver and vlogger becomes an unlikely dissident in Russia’s eastern corner.
The archive does not lie
CONTROL: In Communist Poland, revolt intensifies as workers strike over food price increases while tension builds in the dignitaries’ offices.
Letters to Putin
RUSSIA: On the margins of state control, Ostrov – Lost Island is an evocative portrait of an imperilled Russian community.
The «Revolt of Dignity»
MIGRANTS: Returning to the origins of the gospel and staging it as a passion play for the rights of migrants.
Left in the mud
CORRUPTION: Political turmoil and ecological catastrophe come together in Venezuela’s existential fight for survival.
The deceptive glitter of gold
CAPITALISM: Established as the second greatest threat to humanity after global warming, the dark heart of mining pollution in South Africa is laid bare.
Democracy in French-speaking Africa
AFRICA: France has strangely managed to preserve hegemony over its former colonies, including the dissemination of knowledge. This book is a much-needed exception, providing the background for understanding the recent coup in Mali.
Raw, naked, and masculine
AFRICA: Before, it was the Baroque that seduced Achille Mbembe, now it’s brutalism – used as an analytical breakthrough to understand Africa and its relationship to Europe.
Flashy Norwegian-supported consumption in Africa
CORRUPTION: We haven’t heard much about Luanda Leaks in Norway. Perhaps because it is embarrassing that Statoil paid NOK 420 million to a non-existent research centre owned by Angola’s state oil company Sonangol, where Isabel dos Santos was the director until she was fired in November 2017?
Conversations behind the movie camera
CINEMA: Through long-form conversations, Pamela Cohn offers a global collection of discussions on film and video as an essential medium for conveying the world’s most urgent concerns.
Point of no return
CORRUPTION: In his new film, Marco Ferrari focuses on the heavy personal consequences when you turn into a whistleblower at your own workplace.