The Eyes of Ghana
CINEMA: Through Chris Hesse’s recollections, Ghana’s post-independence archive becomes a record of liberation shadowed by the threat of political erasure.
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Conbody vs. Everybody
JUSTICE: Street skills meet entrepreneurship as a fitness venture builds community, educates clients about life inside, and pushes back against cycles of stigma.
Mothers of Chibok
TRAUMA: Nigerian mothers confront rape, loss, and systemic silence with dignity and defiance in an elegy for a wounded nation.
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 man who infiltrated a military government
JOURNALISM: The fascinating story of Elías Barahona, who infiltrated the military government in Guatemala’s darkest days of civil war.
Subjective truth
DOCS: Some of the biggest non-fiction films of the past years go under the microscope, investigating the ethics of documenting trauma.
Wining and dining one’s way to endless rule
JOURNALISM: Despite imprisonment, journalist Khadija Ismayilova exposes the intricate corruption tactics of the families ruling Central Asia.
A dream becomes a nightmare
LABOUR: On the front lines of the visible – and invisible – global platform economy.
The thick of it
RUSSIA: The youthful energy and optimism of Russia’s young opposition activists comes up against the cruel boundaries of an uncaring state
The rise, fall, and rise of Russia’s free-spirited broadcaster
JOURNALISM: The story of Russia’s last national independent TV news station.