The costs of green energy?
ENVIRONMENT: For many, green energy solutions are just a new way to make money, says director Jeff Gibbs.
Iraq
Close to Turkey’s border
ECO-FEMINISM: Nature is the best source for strength and survival in a war-torn part of the world, and Kurdish women of Syria intend to utilize this while rebuilding their lives when peace settles in again.
The knot in the heart
PHOTOGRAPHY:For almost 50 years, the photographer Eugene Richards has documented a variety of destinies, from crack addicts to people in emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals. What has driven him?
What was lost in the battle of Mosul
The hard times in Mosul are not over. The city that lived three years under Isis is now faced with a destructed infrastructure – on both a physical and social level.
Saying goodbye to analogue film
DIGITALISATION: Cinema Futures is both a poetic farewell to a disappearing medium and a complex analysis of the mixed aspects of digital revolution.
State of repression
Recently opened archival material from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq paints a different picture of the brutal dictatorship.
Nordic docs looking outside the region
In quite different ways, two award-winning Nordic documentaries focus on war zones in other parts of the world outside of the Nordic region.
Three stories on war
Three films draw a line between war and a parallel world, not of peace, but of a kind of limbo upon which war encroaches or that exists alongside the fighting.
Elite liberalism + mass nationalism = true
GLOBALISATION: For political scientist Jean François Bayart, globalisation and the development of national identity are complementary processes.
The Justified War
Kurdish Peshmerga-fighters are fighting against ISIS in Northern Iraq. If they are able to show that they are a source of stability in the region, they will be able to garner more support for their freedom fighting, believes controversial philosopher and documentarist Bernard-Henri Lévy.
From top diplomacy to revolutionary anarchy
As a British diplomat, Carne Ross worked for a government that invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Winner at IDFA: A Humanistic Portrait of a Troubled People
WINNER AT IDFA: When Nori Sharif is given a video camera by director Zaradasht Ahmed to record life in a small Iraqi town, following the US withdrawal at the end of 2011, he decides to film people who “nobody knows about.”