prison

  • When I Get Out

    PRISON: Filmed over a year and a half inside Slovenia’s main male prison, When I Get Out uses psychodrama to explore trauma and normality.

  • In the Penal Colony

    In the Penal Colony

    PRISON: Sardinia’s last penal colonies merge inmates, workers, animals, machines, and wind into a lyrical collective cry for freedom.

  • Independent journalism

    Independent journalism

    MEDIA: To uncover something about the independent media in Turkey, I visited P24, the centre for culture and political debate - in the heart of Istanbul.

  • Not a place for rehabilitation, but for punishment

    Not a place for rehabilitation, but for punishment

    PRISON: The harrowing plight of over three thousand IPP prisoners in England and Wales who remain in jail indefinitely despite completing their sentences years ago.

  • Respectful and lovingly humorous

    Respectful and lovingly humorous

    REHABILITATION: In black and white, well-composed images, Øystein Mamen follows four men in Halden prison. All inmates have committed particularly serious crimes. He shows what recognition and charity can do to people.

  • A beautiful, claustrophobic sensory assault

    A beautiful, claustrophobic sensory assault

    PRISON: An experimental journey into the history of Estonia's notorious Patarei Sea Fortress.

  • Jammed

    Jammed

    PRISON: Light is shed on the failure of Chile's prison system as 81 inmates burn to death while their families remain behind locked gates.

  • The Nagorno-Karabakh cycle

    The Nagorno-Karabakh cycle

    Karabakh: A chronicle of the disputed history in the decades-old conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis

  • Another brick in the wall

    Another brick in the wall

    PRISON: A picturesque hybrid documentary within a hopelessly overcrowded prison in Madagascar.

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