immigration
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The last warning
PHILOSOPHY: Drawing from The Triple Life of Antigone by Slavoj Žižek, this film reflects on today’s environmental and political «chaos».
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The magic of documentary filmmaking
CINEMA: Some of the most talented documentary directors from around the world offer perspective on their approach to filmmaking.
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A step at a time
MIGRANTS: Journey into a new life for a Syrian refugee and his son is a poignant story of love and courage.
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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.
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Above us, About us: Two new documentaries from Rotterdam
IFFR:This year‘s film festival in Rotterdam unveiled several documentaries and shorts, amongst them Above Us Only Sky – a calming exercise in intellectual and sensual stimulation – and Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us, which proved to be a rough, angry gem of a picture.
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No winners, no losers
IMMIGRATION: While US Democrats, Republicans and the President bicker over a border wall, Chèche Lavi shows what whimsical policy measures mean to real people.
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Brexit: the Shame of Democracy
DEMOCRACY: In this documentary, we meet both people who voted for the UK to leave and to remain in the EU, as well as experts like Noam Chomsky.
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In-Between the Shapeshifters
Sophie Vukovic’s thought provoking and well-structured meditation on everyday experiences of teenagers growing up in a multi-cultural world of the XXI century, challenges the notions of a nationhood and its effects on forming the identity.