power
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How To Feed A Dictator
POWER: How to Feed a Dictator turns the private kitchens of five twentieth-century tyrants into a study of complicity and appetite.
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The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World
POWER: If the West is guilty, does that make its rivals emancipatory? Moving from Iran and Venezuela to Palestine, Ukraine, Cuba, and China, the real conflict is no longer West versus Rest, but between those who rule and those who are ruled.
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Amílcar
AFRICA: Built from original letters, poems, and political writings, Amílcar offers a subjective, meditative portrait of Amílcar Cabral and the fight for Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde’s independence
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Encounters 2025 Documentary Festival announces provocative lineup for a world in crisis
The 27th edition of the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival returns from 19 to 29 June 2025, promising a programme of over 40 films from across the globe that grapple with some of the most urgent social, political, and environmental issues of our time. This year’s festival arrives with the assertion that «the world…
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When violence becomes the only way
POWER: According to Hannah Arendt, the use of violence, weapons, and bombs renders us politically voiceless. Can her particular analyses of power teach us anything about the violence being perpetrated from and in Gaza today?
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And, Towards Happy Alleys
IRAN: Indian filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh celebrates Iran's cinema and poetry while shedding light on daily life and the fight for freedom.
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«I don’t think a single military conflict can solve a problem»
INTERVIEW: Elisabeth Hoff, WHO's representative in Libya today, wondered why Norway got involved and dropped 700 bombs on the country in 2011: «It makes no sense at all.» For 30 years, Hoff has tried to save lives in war zones such as Afghanistan, Syria and Libya. How can a human endure so much suffering?
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A lingering life beyond rationality
PHILOSOPHY: Giorgio Agamben makes a loose juxtaposition between Goethe and Hölderlin, between madness and reason. Did the latter allow himself to be pushed to the psychological limit?
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Muslim elites, exercise of power, and terror
AFRICA: What can a book say about Boko Haram or the porous border between present-day Cameroon and present-day Chad? Or about the pre-colonial Kingdom of Kanem-Bornu?