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Generation Gaza: Among the Israelis in India

Francesca Borri / August 27, 2025

ISRAEL: Among Himalaya backpackers, Israelis process 7 October, Gaza memories, and identity crisis—numbed by drugs, haunted by politics, searching elusive peace.

al-Qassam, Beirut, Ben-Gurion, ceasefire, colonialism, Dalai Lama, fascism, Gaza, Hamas, hashish, Himalayas, Hitler, IDF, Iran, Iron Dome, Israel, Jenin, Knesset, Lebanon, Little Israel, mahmoud, Middle East, Nova Festival, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Rafah, Saudi, Tel Aviv, Telegram, trauma, war, West Bank., Zionism

The Big Chief

Melita Zajc / May 27, 2025

COLD WAR: A gripping archival documentary explores the life of a Soviet intelligence legend caught in the web of 20th-century persecution and historical ambiguity.

Atoms & Void, censorship, Cold War, Gestapo, Hitler, INA, Kijora Film, Krakow Film Festival, Leopold Trepper, moscow, Nazism, Red Orchestra, Stalin, Stalingrad, The Big Chief, Tomasz Wolski, Visions du réel

You Need This

Margareta Hruza / March 25, 2025

MEDIA: Unpacking the history of advertising and media manipulation, this film exposes capitalism’s relentless push toward overconsumption, inequality, and planetary destruction.

advertising, capitalism, colonialism, consumption, CPH:DOX, deforestation, Elon Musk, fast fashion, Goebbels, Hitler, Hôtel Motion Pictures, human trafficking, labour, media, Off the Fence, overconsumption, psychology, Ryan Andrej Lough, Scenery, Yellow Dot Studios, You Need This

Let’s talk about Riefenstahl

Melita Zajc / September 13, 2024

IDEOLOGY: Leni Riefenstahl shaped a controversial legacy, prompting reflection on whether her work’s fascist ideals still resonate in contemporary culture.

Andres Veiel, Beta Cinema, cinema, Elfriede Kretschmer, Fritz Lang, Hitler, Horst Kettner, ideology, Ji.hlava IDFF, Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Nazi, Riefenstahl, Roma, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Third Reich, Venice Film Festival, Vincent Productions

RUSSIA: Victory Day in Russia in 2022 – barely six weeks after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine – plays out the same tired old themes of the Red Army’s victory over Nazism in 1945, with those celebrating eagerly taking up the new propaganda of victory.

Atoms & Void, Avanpost, Bucha, goEast, Hitler, Immortal Regiment, jingoism, Kremlin, moscow, Nicole Philmon, propaganda, Putin, Russia, Saratov, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Victory Day, Yeltsin

Liberating the time

Melita Zajc / March 2, 2024

Milada Součková: The two experimental shorts by Andrea Culková revive the writing of the relatively unknown avant-garde Czech poet.

Andrea Culková, avant-garde, Charles University, coup d'état, Czechoslovakia, Gaspar Noe, Gestapo, Historic Monolog (Historický monolog), Historical Monolog (Historický monolog), History, Hitler, Hungarian Revolution, memory, Milada Součková, Mluvici Pasmo (The Talking Zone), modernist, Nanni Moretti, Occupy, Prague, Roman Jacobson, suicide, surrealist, Zdeňek Rykr

Exploring cinematic reflections of crisis: documentary on the march

Steve Rickinson / November 2, 2023

CINEMA: More prescient than ever, Doclisboa’s «Documentary on the March» retrospective provide a blueprint for today’s documentaries for social change.

China, cinema, Democracy, Doclisboa, Dust Bowl, Dziga Vertov, Errol Morris, fascism, Great Depression, Herbert Kline, Hitler, inequality, Irving Lerner, Joris Ivens, Ken Burns, Leo Hurwitz, Michael Moore, Mussolini, New Deal, Pare Lorentz, Paul Strand, Ralph Steiner, realism, Sergei Eisenstein, social change, Soviet Union, Spain, United States, Willard Van Dyke

Totalitarianism then and now

Truls Lie / May 25, 2023

IDEOLOGY: A disintegrated society finds unity, energy, and meaning by uniting around a suitable’ enemy’. Totalitarian propaganda has led to the decision to allow Ukraine to use F-16 fighter jets against the nuclear power Russia – with the significant consequences it may entail.

anxiety, Baruch Spinoza, Bertolt Brecht, China, diplomacy, Germany, Hitler, ideology, militarism, NATO, propaganda, Putin, Social media, Stalin, terror, totalitarianism, USA, Zelensky

Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting

Truls Lie / October 23, 2022

CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him.

Anna Karenina, Cassavetes, children, Christianity, cinema, Claude Landsman, death, Doclisboa, Documentary, Ebrahim Golestan, Golda Meir, Hannah Arendt, History, Hitchcock, Hitler, Hollywood, hope, Jean-Luc Godard, Mikra Farahani, montage, Mozart, Nazis, neorealism, Nicolas Seydoux, philosophy, Rolle, Schubert, Sergei Lozinitsa, suicide, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, war, Yugoslavia

A cruel game by Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, exposed

Melita Zajc / February 20, 2022

HISTORY: Nina Gladitz’s film about Roma and Sinti survivors of Shoah has been hidden in the WDR archive since 1982. Reactions to her book show we live in times when searching for the truth and giving voice to the weakest in societysociety causes suspicion, not respect. But simply accepting that such are the times might be the real problem.

arte, Auschwitz, Béla Balázs, Dieter Hinrichs, fascism, France, Germany, Helmut Kindler, History, Hitler, Johathan Rosenbaum, Josef Reinhard, Julian Assange, Kitzbuhel, Leni Riefenstahl, National Socialist, Nazi, Nina Gladitz, Piotr Uklanski, Poland, Roma, Salzburg, Sinti, Social media, Spain, Switzerland, USA, WDR, Willy Zielke

Babi Yar. Context, a film by Sergei Loznitsa

Cataloguing chronicide In the Soviet Union

Carmen Gray / August 26, 2021

CONFLICT: Reconstructing and visualising the historical context of the Babi Yar tragedy, where 33,771 Jews were massacred during Ukraine’s German occupation.

Babi Yar. Context, Cannes Docs, conflict, FIPADOC, Germany, Hitler, holocaust, ideology, IDFA, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Kyiv, Lviv, Maria Choustova, Mikhail Epstein, Nazi, Nuremberg, Porto/Post/Doc, Sarajevo Film Festival, Sergei Loznitsa, Soviet Ukraine, Stalin, totalitarianism

Our Beds Are Burning, a film by Igal Bursztyn

Intellectual foundations for fascism

Nick Holdsworth / July 5, 2021

FASCISM: Since the beginnings of the 20th Century, fascist ideals have emerged from many places one may not expect.

DocAviv, fascism, Heinrich Himmler, Hitler, Igal Bursztyn, Israel, Mussolini, Our Beds Are Burning, Palestinians, Poland, Ruta Cohen, Ten Commandments, West Bank., Zionist