The romanticisation of lived reality under the totalitarian régime
DARK RED FOREST: The director leaves us only to guess his true intention – honesty or paying lip service to the propaganda?
meditation
Banned Falun Gong and the defiant story of TV hijacking
CHINA: Revisiting the Falun Gong’s TV takeover on the 20th anniversary.
A sense of place
UNITED STATES: A portrait of today’s USA through immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between.
Rituals of impermanence
RELIGION: 20,000 female Tibetan Buddhist Monks offer a glimpse into their religious exploration of life’s biggest questions.
The new tendencies of Taiwanese documentary
TAIWAN: A creative mixture of documentary, animation, and experimental approaches, offers a spectrum of contemporary Taiwan’s lived realities.
By the light of a mobile screen
SPIRITUALITY: In the few years since TV and internet were introduced to Bhutan, daily rituals like candle lighting and recitation of prayer now compete with the lure of smartphones.