The privilege of the self-portrait
MEXICO: The intersection of migration and personal identity with Night of the Coyotes and Frida: A Self-Portrait.
poverty
«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.
Utopias of community
FUTURE: Are we progressing towards an international society that looks after those left out of the conventional job market – and, with wisdom, transitions today’s military industry towards civilian duties? It’s conceivable that the new BRICS might pave a path away from today’s Western ideology.
Joyce Carol Oates: «I write about people»
BIOGRAPHY: An unprecedented access to the prolific American writer’s solitude.
When the world is really on fire
EU: Europe never became an adult or responsible player in a multipolar world. A common foreign and security policy has never gone beyond the sketch. Will it happen now?
Fascinating fascism and seductive leaders
NEO-FASCISM: Do many still have fascist yearnings today, or can one always blame seductive leaders? A closer dive into the 100-year-old Italian fascism and its descendants says something about the dangers we are likely to face.
The cultural identity of the displaced
IDENTITY: In two Nordisk Panorama-screened films, a growing number of second-generation immigrants express how they do not feel truly included in their European birth countries.
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.
Chile’s «unpopular success story»
NEOLIBERALISM: Breaking The Brick plucks us into the heat of Chile’s social unrest, reliving the Chicago Boys’ contentious legacy.
To Hear Children Weeping in a Photograph
PHOTOGRAPHY: The journalistic war photos that we have, unfortunately, seen so frequently in recent months are primarily meant to inform us about the conflict. However, they often strive to take on a subjective character and become political actors. Photographs of suffering children play a special role in this transformation. What role?
Recolonising Ecuador
NEO-COLONISALISM: Ecuadorian indigenous resistance against their homeland’s resource exploitation at the hands of China.
Making money work for everyone
DEBT: A brilliant, but serious, comic caper with all the style and panache of The Italian Job – and the heart and soul of the best in British social activism.