Cinema and the post-truth world
REALITY: Cinema’s unique role in investigating reality, fiction, AI-driven propaganda, and how imagination shapes our perceptions in the post-truth world.
Hollywood
No justice, no peace: A Day, 365 Hours and The Silence of Reason
TRAUMA: Two Sarajevo Film Festival-premiered films take a justice-seeking women’s journey, revealing the resilience of rape survivors.
We don’t want the smoking gun at the head of civilisation to be a mushroom cloud
OPPENHEIMER: The mainstream embraces sex and death in nuke movie.
Aurora’s Sunrise
ARMENIA: A harrowing, engrossing story of Aurora Mardiganian who finds herself in the throes of the Armenian genocide.
Future in the past
DOCUMENTARY: In a rigorous collection of essays, The Companion offers an in-depth, global examination of central historical issues and approaches in the field of documentary.
Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting
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.
Embracing femininity as a form of empowerment
FEMININITY: Two films from Nordisk Panorama observe groups of women going against social conventions in claiming back youth on their own terms.
The power game
GAZE: The mechanisms of exploitation of women as sexual objects in Hollywood films, exposed.
Safe sex scenes
SEX: Exploring the female body in Hollywood by tracing the making of sex scenes, the toll it takes on those involved, and what it means for women in the real world.
Blindspots: Michael Winterbottom’s ‘Dark Matter: Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century’
VIEWS: Beginning with a flawed premise, British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom’s book of interviews does not provide the full picture.
Manifesting destiny
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: Promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, Brazil’s Uru-eu-wau-wau people have since faced illegal incursions from mining companies and land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians.