From Ground Zero
PALESTINE: 22 films on the human experience in Gaza.
Gaza
Gaza is by many called the world’s biggest prison
The Propagandist
PROPAGANDA: The rise and fall of a filmmaker who reshaped Dutch cinema by serving Nazi propaganda during World War II.
FIFDH unveils full 2025 human-rights focused film programme
The 23rd edition of the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) is making a call for
AI, Global Crises, and Visual Storytelling at the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (6-16 March) returns this year with a programme that spans explorations of #Artificial Intelligence#,
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.
Pragmatism and repressive politics
TURKEY: This autumn, we met two intellectuals in Istanbul about today’s Turkey – and attended a major conference there on political economy. Here, we look at the use of power, freedom of expression, the media, militarisation and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s political pragmatism.
«The role of cinema becomes more crucial each year as we find ourselves in individual echo chambers…»
MOVIES ON WAR: In our interview, festival director Øystein Egge reflected on curating this year’s compelling focus on #Gaza and the #Middle East, the role of cinema in our polarised age, and the festival’s role in fostering critical conversations through it.
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?
Stitched histories
PALESTINE: Like the Old Testament Joseph and his coat of many colours, a patch-covered jacket becomes a symbol for a greater truth in Mathijs Poppe’s touching film of yearning for home, The Jacket.