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How To Feed A Dictator

Melita Zajc / August 19, 2026

POWER: How to Feed a Dictator turns the private kitchens of five twentieth-century tyrants into a study of complicity and appetite.

Andrew Neel, Co Created Media, How to Feed a Dictator, power, SeeThink Films, Submarine Entertainment, USA

The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World

Francesca Borri / March 27, 2026

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.

Brett Neilson, power, Sandro Mezzadra, The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World, Verso Books

Amílcar

Olivia Popp / November 28, 2025

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

Africa, Amílcar, Amílcar Cabral, CPH:DOX, DOK.fest München, IDFA, Korikaxoru Films, Les Docs du Nord, LX Filmes, Marxist, Miguel Eek, mosaic, Nuno Miranda, Odd Slice Films, PAIGC, power, Sisyfos Film, United Nations

Encounters 2025 Documentary Festival announces provocative lineup for a world in crisis

Modern Times Review / May 22, 2025

The 27th edition of the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival returns from 19 to 29 June 2025, promising a

activism, Boko haram, climate, Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, Hector Pietersen, memory, power, Soweto, technology

When violence becomes the only way

Truls Lie / December 3, 2023

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?

Algeria, Democracy, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, John Mearsheimer, Middle East, NATO, Negev, power, propaganda, realism, Russia, Sinai, Ukraine

And, Towards Happy Alleys

Melita Zajc / August 3, 2023

IRAN: Indian filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh celebrates Iran’s cinema and poetry while shedding light on daily life and the fight for freedom.

And, Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Forough Farrokhzad, freedom, Happy Alley Films, Iran, Jafar Panahi, MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival, media, Nasrin Sotoudeh, power, propaganda, sex, Sreemoyee Singh, Towards Happy Alleys

«I don’t think a single military conflict can solve a problem»

Truls Lie / June 30, 2023

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?

Afghanistan, aleppo, cancer, Christian, corruption, earthquake, Egypt, Elisabeth Hoff, Europe, feminism, Healthcare, Homs, human rights, humanity, Iran, Italy, Jan Egeland, Kabul, Libya, media, military-industrial complex, Mujahideen, pacifism, petrol, power, Putin, radiation, Rome, Syria, taliban, trauma, Turkey, war, WHO

Hölderlin’s Madness. Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843

A lingering life beyond rationality

Henning Næss / June 8, 2023

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?

coronavirus, Empedocles, Goethe, Hölderlin, Oedipus, philosophy, politics, power, refugee

Violence, Labor and Resources By Alessio Iocchi

Muslim elites, exercise of power, and terror

Ketil Fred Hansen / January 20, 2023

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?

Africa, Boko haram, Bol, Cameroon, chad, colonization, Gustav Nachtigal, Ibn Khaldun, Lake Chad, Libya, Muhammed Yusuf, Nguéli, Niger, nigeria, power, Sahel, slave trade, slaves, United Nations

Weird scenes inside the streets and favelas of a South American city

Nick Holdsworth / April 16, 2022

ART: A dreamlike celebration of street art and protest in the heart of Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s 6th largest city.

art, Banksy, Bolsonaro, courage, culture, donald trump, femininity, float by, gender, graffiti and, Hieronymus Bosch, Hot Docs, identity, IDFA, Luana Melgaço, Marcos Pimentel, oblivious to both her and the artwork. The film flows on with the traffic, politics, poor, power, protest, race, rich;, sex, Skin, taking its viewers on an odyssey of, the salute to the sun, the serpent – as cars and people pass by

Which African intellectuals…

Ketil Fred Hansen / November 1, 2021

AFRICA: Inspired by both Bakhtin and Foucault, Stephen Chan presents Achille Mbembe’s analysis of the African state in an understandable way. But let’s also mention what the book leaves out.

Africa, African politics, Bakhtin, Felwin Sarr, Foucault, Lindiwe, Mahamood Mamdani, Malawi, Nkosazana Zuma, phenomenology and, philosophy, power, Samir Amin, Sierra Leone, to provide a new understanding of, Valentin Mudimbe, Yoruba

There’s more than one feminism

Martin Srajer / December 14, 2020

DOK.REVUE: A reflection on women documentarians inspired by Barbora Baronová’s book Women on Women.

Academy Award, activist, Bill Nichols, communist, Czech, diversity, dok.revue, Erika Hníková, family, feminism, feminists, gender, Helena Trestikova, identity, Jan Špáta, John Grierson, Karel Vachek, Martina Malinová, Nazi, Olga Sommerová, power, resistance, totalitarianism