HATE: Turkish-German Seyda Kurt is preoccupied with the concept of hatred as a catalyst for tenderness. Hatred often has its roots in racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and prejudice.
FEMINISM: In an attempt to align identity politics with the teachings of the Catholic Church, the Italian author and feminist Michele Murgia envisions a possibility for renewal - for the church. Here, the Holy Spirit opens up to something different and non-gendered, to queerness.
SOCIETY: Maite Alberdi's film cleverly touches on a delicate theme and invites us with compassion and tenderness to reflect on isolation, the rigours of patriarchal society, and the organisation of work and family.
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ELECTIONS: Tricked by cynical populists' fake commitments for their own obscure ends, the elderly residents of an entire village in Georgia are left toothless, figuratively and literally.
RUSSIA: Victory Day in Russia in 2022 – barely six weeks after Putin's invasion of Ukraine – plays out the same tired old themes of the Red Army's victory over Nazism in 1945, with those celebrating eagerly taking up the new propaganda of victory.