No justice, no peace: A Day, 365 Hours and The Silence of Reason
TRAUMA: Two Sarajevo Film Festival-premiered films take a justice-seeking women’s journey, revealing the resilience of rape survivors.
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And, Towards Happy Alleys
IRAN: Indian filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh celebrates Iran’s cinema and poetry while shedding light on daily life and the fight for freedom.
We don’t want the smoking gun at the head of civilisation to be a mushroom cloud
OPPENHEIMER: The mainstream embraces sex and death in nuke movie.
Safe sex scenes
SEX: Exploring the female body in Hollywood by tracing the making of sex scenes, the toll it takes on those involved, and what it means for women in the real world.
The price of freedom
BIOGRAPHY: Growing up in the bohemian community at Hydra with Leonard Cohen as a stepfather, Little Axel tells a story of neglect and an overload of freedom.
Weird scenes inside the streets and favelas of a South American city
ART: A dreamlike celebration of street art and protest in the heart of Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s 6th largest city.
Existence as activism
IDENTITY: Intertwined with days of protests, the final days of Chile’s radical Cabaret Travesía Travesti show how important it is that the trans community stands up to tell its own stories.
A politically correct porn book on French oppression
SEX: Middle-class porn or a welcome new perspective on sexual relationships during colonial times?
Finding a Western husband is not the cure to all pains
Spanning a ten-year period, Heartbound tells the stories of Thai women who realise their dream of marrying a Western man.
Je suis Jyoti
The documentary about the brutal rape of Jyoti Singh paints a frightening picture of the way women are viewed in Indian culture.
Some things only come out at night
Nikolaus Geyrhalter travels to the dark side of a Europe filled with lives at night: loneliness, sadness, death, refugees, drunken and somewhat foolish people, sex for money, illness and surveillance.
Where pleasure meets pain
Two films explore the boundaries between art and porn, sexual spectacle and exploitation.