Cover-Up
JOURNALISM: Seymour Hersh and the Socratic sting.
Julian Assange
Cinema and the post-truth world
REALITY: Cinema’s unique role in investigating reality, fiction, AI-driven propaganda, and how imagination shapes our perceptions in the post-truth world.
Death – more or less real
REALITY: We perceive reality very differently. So let me suggest three areas where reality is real, strong and direct for all of us. But also about what a newly translated book by Pier Paolo Pasolini says about film’s contact with reality.
«You may end up with the only peace – being the peace of the graveyard.»
INTERVIEW: We are talking with the previous Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the man who could have been prime minister in Britain, about current issues – like military build-up, Ukraine, Israel, climate justice and labour, security, democracy, citizen assemblies, and not least of all, hope for the future.
Chile 76: The aftermath of a broken mirror
GEOPOLITICS: Delving deep into the murky world of geopolitical machinations where, from Iran to Chile, the US/UK influence cannot be understated.
Assange and the fight for free journalism
FREE SPEECH: Although Ithaka – A Fight to Free Julian Assange focuses on Julian Assange’s family in their fight for his freedom, the film is an effective and needed reminder of the bigger issues at stake.
Prevent the abuse of human rights in social media
SOCIAL MEDIA: Two films from One World IHRFF prompt us to think about what kind of social media we want in the future.
Prosecution of filmmakers spreads «like a pandemic»
IDFA: ICFR addresses a growing political prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers.
New cinematic form for a better world
DISSENT: The hybrid Cinéma du réel Grand Prize winner follows an all-female gang who roam one of Brazil’s biggest favelas selling cheap fuel.
Recolonising Ecuador
NEO-COLONISALISM: Ecuadorian indigenous resistance against their homeland’s resource exploitation at the hands of China.
A cruel game by Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, exposed
HISTORY: Nina Gladitz’s film about Roma and Sinti survivors of Shoah has been hidden in the WDR archive since 1982. Reactions to her book show we live in times when searching for the truth and giving voice to the weakest in societysociety causes suspicion, not respect. But simply accepting that such are the times might be the real problem.
Palestine, Portugal, pluralism
Let me take this time for more examples identity is problematic. Who-you-are and where-you-belong-to are still debated. As usual, Norway’s