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Turin’s CinemAmbiente Festival launches on World Environment Day with over 70 films
The 2025 #CinemAmbiente Film Festival, set to run from 5 to 10 June in Turin, Italy, will showcase over 100 films addressing pressing environmental issues. The festival opens with a screening of Wonders of the Sea (1922), accompanied by a live performance from Italian pop-rock band Perturbazione. This pioneering underwater film aligns with themes of…
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From housing injustice to exile Czech films at One World confront global & local crises
Each year, the Czech Film Competition at the One World International Human Rights Film Festival spotlights some of the most compelling Czech documentaries of the year. Scheduled from 12 March to 27 April across 57 cities in the Czech Republic, the 2025 lineup continues this tradition with eleven films, five of which will have their…
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Alternative history of human nature
PATRIARCHY: Why Men? explores the roots of patriarchy, inequality, and violence, challenging misconceptions about human nature and revealing our innate drive for equality.
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The privilege of the self-portrait
MEXICO: The intersection of migration and personal identity with Night of the Coyotes and Frida: A Self-Portrait.
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Exploring cinematic reflections of crisis: documentary on the march
CINEMA: More prescient than ever, Doclisboa's «Documentary on the March» retrospective provide a blueprint for today's documentaries for social change.
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Life after work
LABOUR: Why being irrelevant could be worse than being exploited in the new world of automation and Artificial Intelligence.
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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.
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Chile’s «unpopular success story»
NEOLIBERALISM: Breaking The Brick plucks us into the heat of Chile's social unrest, reliving the Chicago Boys' contentious legacy.
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De – rrida – construction
VISIONS du REEL: This year’s festival featured the 2002 film Derrida as a part of the oeuvre of Kirsten Johnson, who worked as cinematographer. The film follows French philosopher Jacques Derrida. But is it possible to film-philosophy?