Detention
POLICE: A rather shocking glimpse into the reality of the French prison system.
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Hospitals and their victims
HEALTHCARE: In Cannes’ ACID section, the urgent question about the health system is pointed out.
Is anyone listening?
ANTHROPOLOGY:A study revealing that systematic torture is part of contemporary democracies
Making money by punishing innocent «criminals»
POLICING: In New York, people are being terrorised in their own streets, homes, and workplaces by the people paid to protect them. These realities should be impossible, but in these neighbourhoods in the US they are everyday occurrences.
Anatomy of a protest
REFUGEES: Gradually revealing the entire picture, this observational documentary not only highlights many of those missing during the Arab Spring, but also the constant nature of a woman’s work.
From the frontlines of the war on refugees
REFUGEES: Chinese artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei follows up his documentary Human Flow with a reportage from the warzones that await refugees in Europe. The Rest is about the millions who came for shelter but found none.
«The power of the Mafia is institutionalised»
MAFIA: Modern Times Review met the Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia in the Berlinale Lounge to talk about her photographic work and the Italian Mafia today.
A powerful cry for justice
Forensically detailed catalogue of state-sponsored killings paints a dark picture of the life and death for poor, black youngsters in Rio’s sprawling shanty-towns.
Walls of fear
The Border Fence draws out the anxieties and fears of a community in the grip of a shifting political landscape, provoking unavoidable parallels with an increasingly divisive Europe.
A mourning sister speaks truth to power
Through reflections, prose-poems, and conversations with living and dead revolutionaries, Jackie Wang dissects the American prison system.
When societies get militarised
Most people expect their government to provide them with a safe society, where one doesn’t have to live in fear of dangers, enemies and refugees.