A lost world in the name of God
RELIGION: A testament to the human and cultural destructive power of white, Christian arrogance.
culture
The land of dark cities
CULTURE: A saturated hybrid of a distinct musical subculture and the complicated city dynamics that help create it.
Under the heavenly blue sky
CULTURE:A vulnerable, vivid and sprawling story about the challenges present for a group of farmers in a remote yet beautiful village.
Fishing in tidal waters
ECOLOGY: Director Renu Savant gives us the opportunity to see the ancestral, small-fishing methods of the men of Mirya on the west coast of India.
Dingseveldet – The gadgets in the online stores
MULTIPLICITY: Can a gadget materialism reconstruct a collective societal thought?
Woodstock remake: looking back after 50 years
CULTURE: The American broadcaster PBS has launched a new documentary about one of the key events in American modern history: Woodstock.
Afghan air guitar and expat metal: a scene is created in RocKabul
CULTURE: A documentary tells the story of the rise of the first Afghan metal band and their fall under the weight of the ultra-conservative society that surrounds them.
Above us, About us: Two new documentaries from Rotterdam
IFFR:This year‘s film festival in Rotterdam unveiled several documentaries and shorts, amongst them Above Us Only Sky – a calming exercise in intellectual and sensual stimulation – and Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us, which proved to be a rough, angry gem of a picture.
New York Review of Books
The documentary The 50 Year Argument is a celebration of one of literature’s most influential institutions, but could have benefitted from a more critical gaze.
Je suis Jyoti
The documentary about the brutal rape of Jyoti Singh paints a frightening picture of the way women are viewed in Indian culture.
