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.
REHABILITATION: One judge in Italy’s most violent regions aims to re-educate children of powerful crime families through a controversial programme.
REHABILITATION: A touching story of the power of forgiveness that poses difficult questions for the families of murder victims – and the perpetrators.
REHABILITATION: In viewing Vilnius prisoners serving life sentences, Exemplary Behaviour examines the paradox between justice and forgiveness.
COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new.