Dystopia ends when, Putin?
RUSSIA: Online video as a contemporary form of political expression and a plea against censorship in Russia.
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The coming technological decade
EDITORIAL: Will increased control or monitoring in this decade eventually leave more to algorithms that carry out actions based on so-called “actionable intelligence”?
The true face of Chechnya’s invisibles
CHECHNYA: A group of activists risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ programme raging in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
One learning, the other forgetting
CONTROL: The compelling and tragic stories of six women as the last survivors of the Gulag.
The documents that revealed the worldwide theft from the public purse
CORRUPTION: Alex Winter’s behind-the-scenes story of how an international consortium of journalists broke the story of the Panama Papers plays like a compulsive thriller.
Day-to-day life amongst a pro-Russian battalion in Ukraine
Their Own Republic by Russian director Aliona Polunina caused quite a fury at this year‘s Doclisboa due to its pro-Russian stance. The documentary nonetheless offers an interesting insight into the side of the Ukrainian conflict rarely portrayed in western media.
From protégée to dictator
RUSSIA: A glimpse into Vladimir Putin‘s rise to power – from his early promises of media freedom to the flagrant disregard of democratic norms.
The ‘high times’ of the Brezhnev years
USSR: Vivid memories of home-made psychedelic drugs and Soviet revolutionary times are brought to life in Soviet Hippies.
On making a covenant with Putin
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to nine years in a POW (prisoner of war) camp in 2003, and received an additional six years in 2010. Yukos, his oil company was expropriated by the State.