FOSTA
MUSIC: What does rehabilitation look like? FOSTA, the titular subject in this documentary, seeks to show us through his journey from the violent gangs in the Cape Flats to the electrifying world of Electronic Dance Music.
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Notes from the Underground
MUSIC: Forced removal, racialised geography, and cultural survival converge in a layered portrait of Cape hip-hop.
Orlando Pantera
MUSIC: Catarina Alves Costa’s portrait of Orlando Pantera avoids the mythology of his death, choosing instead a slow, humane chorus of voices, landscapes, and songs.
Doclibsoa announces new «Heart Beat» and «From the Earth to the Moon» 2025 titles
Doclisboa has announced a cross-arts lineup linking cinema with pop and performance. In «Heart Beat», Stéphane Ghez’s Welcome to Lynchland
Third World
MUSIC: The liminal experience of legendary Croatian band Haustor – which shaped the former Yugoslavia new wave music scene in the 1980s – is explored in Arsen Oremović’s Third World.
Lost For Words
NATURE: A gentle appeal for reconnecting to nature through the language we have so long used to describe.
Musical resilience
CULTURE: An insight into the unique liveliness of a forgotten subculture from emigrated Turkish guest workers and their grandchildren in Germany.
The sound of digital culture
MUSIC: Three teenagers living in small-town 1970s Norway go on to become one of the 80s top-selling acts, and music pioneers in the process.
The three ecologies
CLIMATE: What connects the city of Siracusa with the UN and a French philosopher?
Ramallah, Tblisi, Tehran: The women driving their electronic music culture
MUSIC: A trio of short documentaries traverse Tbilisi, Ramallah, and Tehran, giving an on the ground look at how what each represents within a global electronic music industry and the women who have made it so.
About white men and machines
AI: Recent developments in the field of intelligent machines clearly demand a reflection. The latest book by Arthur I. Miller is dedicated to this, but it only partially fulfills its promise.