Peru’s battle for water over greed for gold
CAPITALISM: An incredible story of a Peruvian farmer who stood up to one of the world’s largest gold-mining companies and triumphed.
HOTDOCS
Silent cries and a money-driven welfare system
CAPITALISM: Midnight Family and Overseas show two very different kinds of underprivileged workers within a backdrop of our times’ ruthless capitalism.
Life vanishingly rare
CLIMATE: Enriched with animated segments depicting the legends and culture of the Inuit and Chukchi people, The Book of the Sea reveals a side of Russia rarely seen.
A feminist top model and her son
FEMINISIM: Once an iconic fashion model, now a radical feminist, Benedetta Barzini and son clash to capture her lasting image of liberation.
The sun sets on New York’s five boroughs
URBANISATION: A glimpse into the collective consciousness of a city and its citizens, The Hottest August offers a mirror onto the registered anxiety of contemporary survival strategy.
Flying the battered nest of circumstance
POVERTY: Let down by society’s promises, a generation of young Scots carve out moments of tenderness amidst bursts of frustration and violence.
A personal account of Aleppo’s destiny
SYRIA: A painful documentary infused with the occasional breath of poetry and beauty from Aleppo.
Rebel with a lost cause
JUSTICE: For almost fifty years, Lea Tsemel has been at the forefront of the fight for justice and compassion for those lost and indefensible in society’s eye.
Where there is love, there is life
HOLOCAUST: Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto is not a historical account, not a teaching of facts. It is a beautiful, joyous and painful bubble of the memories of one man who lived during the Holocaust.
Making money by punishing innocent «criminals»
POLICING: In New York, people are being terrorised in their own streets, homes, and workplaces by the people paid to protect them. These realities should be impossible, but in these neighbourhoods in the US they are everyday occurrences.
The lost prize of freedom
SYRIA: A filmmaker begins documenting a celebration of freedom in Aleppo but ends up documenting the devastating consequences of that dream.
The conspiracy between the lawful and the unlawful
IMMIGRATION: Mexican government complicity to the lethal violence of organised crime and America’s brutal bureaucracy towards asylum seekers are both condemned in Marcela Arteaga’s poetic and piercing The Guardian of Memory.