Have we as a civilisation met ourselves at the door?
IDENTITY: Do we all have some kind of doppelganger that expresses our most extreme thoughts and attitudes? In this book, Naomi Klein takes a special stand against her own people: the Jews.
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The myth of Melusina reimagined
IDENTITY: Delve into the complex identities formed by Luxembourg’s immigrant youth
Between bricks, bytes, and belonging
IDENTITY: How do marginalised individuals navigate societal structures meant to exclude them? ‘Fairy Garden’ offers a raw and authentic look into the lives of two such people in Hungary.
A world not just of facts, but of possibilities
IDENTITY: Özge Baykan Calafato has collected a fascinating photo archive in the markets of antiquities and rarities of Istanbul. Through a selection of these photographs, she analyses the relation between population and state ideology during the emergence of the secular Turkish republic in the 1920s and 1930s
Unstill life
IDENTITY: A mesmerising documentary delving into themes of art, love, motherhood, and overcoming societal challenges.
Why do we resort to bombs and guns?
CONFLICT: Christopher Blattman’s long-term project explores the reasons why conflict between groups and nations erupts into war.
The adaptive autocrats
AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton’s fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese’s mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.
New Tech – Manufacturing the Truth?
IDFA: Filmmakers and artists weigh in on old and new technologies in documentary film and their ethical implications.
An eternal audition
IDENTITY: Encounters with three other «new comers» to the Netherlands, the IDFA opening film turns the spotlight on all of us as it ponders questions of belonging, who gets exclusion, and the constant reaffirmation of outsider status.