The Nagorno-Karabakh cycle
Karabakh: A chronicle of the disputed history in the decades-old conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis
Russia
Russia without Putin
RUSSIA: Putin will leave the Kremlin one day – but don’t expect that to change things, argues Tony Wood in his well-researched thesis on power and continuity in today’s Russia.
Baltic Sea Docs announces selected projects for 2020
The 24th edition of the Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries# has announced its #Baltic Sea Docs# 2020 participating projects. Occurring
The faces behind the flags
NATIONALISM: A 6-month documentation of Łódź right-wing National-Radical Camp activity.
Dystopia ends when, Putin?
RUSSIA: Online video as a contemporary form of political expression and a plea against censorship in Russia.
The steel city’s future departed
RUSSIA: Against the backdrop of gigantic rusty smokestacks, the day-to-day lives of Magnitogorsk seem pre-determined by one of the largest iron and steel factories in Russia.
The beauty of abandoned places
PERSEVERANCE: The bleached white concrete bones of an abandoned Soviet-era nuclear reactor frame Alexandra Westmeier’s poetic study of lives lived out in a post-apocalyptic era.
Docs and de-powering
FESTIVALS: Can documentaries be a part of de-powering – «destitution» – most needed in today’s power-driven societies?
Moneyed but mortal: Russia’s ‘90s «Wild West»
RUSSIA: Alex Gibney provides an intimate look at post-Soviet Russia from the perspective of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch turned political dissident.
Condemned to an idea of Russia
RUSSIA: Though the communist era may be over, the ideology of serving the motherland is still very much alive as an ideal for indoctrination.
Death and duty
RUSSIA: The dreamlike beauty of Ksenia Okhapkina’s concise film connects the subtle mechanisms of control in a former Gulag town.
Stanley Kubrick, the realist
As a filmmaker he has had a significant impact on many of us. In a progressively militarized and technified world, Kubrick remains highly relevant.