ethics

  • Cinematic ethics – and dilemmas

    Cinematic ethics – and dilemmas

    ETHICS: What can a festival's Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as humans, and what about our relation to nature? Can an old philosopher show us a way?

  • Anarchia. Il ritorno del pensiero selvaggio

    Anarchia. Il ritorno del pensiero selvaggio

    ANARCHY: Leonardo Caffo’s argument for an anarchic society suggests that real freedom comes from rejecting old systems and embracing autonomy, not from restoring the state.

  • Ethics for humanity to come

    Ethics for humanity to come

    ETHICS: In the era of technology, the Western roots in Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions lose enchantment. Umberto Galimberti advocates for an ethics of aimless wandering, denouncing dominance and embracing a cosmopolitan, biocentric view that life on the earth is the measure of all things.

  • Docudays UA 2023: the complete winners

    Docudays UA 2023: the complete winners

    The 20th edition of the #Docudays UA# International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival has recently concluded, announcing its list of winners. This significant event marked a jubilee for the festival, celebrating outstanding films that shed light on #human rights#, #ethics, and #social issues# with a unique artistic vision. The festival doesn’t stop at the announcement…

  • Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta and the question of ethics in filmmaking

    Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta and the question of ethics in filmmaking

    ETHICS: The first season of Ji.hlava's IDFF Conference of Ethics in Filmmaking was a necessary conversation around the need for common ethical principles in documentary filmmaking.

  • SDI announces return of in-person «Phenomenal Women» series through September

    SDI announces return of in-person «Phenomenal Women» series through September

    The Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) has announced its special programme of acclaimed documentaries directed by women. Tackling issues of #mental health# and #politics through a personal lens and a #female gaze#, the «Phenomenal Women» series screens take place across 10/11 and 17/18 September. The screenings will occur simultaneously in Inverness and Edinburgh, as well as…

  • Hunting clouds in a volatile desert region

    Hunting clouds in a volatile desert region

    ETHICS: Is it okay to modify the atmosphere?

  • Everything we love is transient, fleeting, temporary

    Everything we love is transient, fleeting, temporary

    ESSAY: It is our self-understanding that is at stake today. With their aggressive, partly inflated subjects, Western technologists, economists, and artists have for centuries seen themselves above nature. In the ecosystem, man is in nature, he is a part of nature, on which he is completely dependent. Can we protect biotopes, habitats, rivers, lakes, soils,…

  • Is it a crime to save lives?

    Is it a crime to save lives?

    Acting in the name of human rights has become a criminal act in France.

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