Shanghai
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The adaptive autocrats
AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton's fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese's mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.
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Retirement is not for cowards
AGEING: After following the ‘well-proven path’ of holding a job with the same company for a lifetime, everything is about to change - Rudy retires.
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Christmastime: Where globalism and communism meet
GLOBALISATION: In a city where it is Christmas all year long, those that produce cheap and tacky seasonal decorations care little for Western traditions.
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A changing Chinese society
Up the Mountain is a portrait how the shedding of the old is making way for the new in today‘s China.
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On the road to war
John Pilger’s documentary predicts a horrifying possibility: that China and the US are on the brink of war.
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Take a look at Europe through the eyes of a six year old child
Mother Europe gave birth to many children. She raised them with love and with care. Among the children were Belgium and the twins called Denmark. Mother Europe kept having children.
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They finally got him
DISSENT: Some of the gutsiest actions ever taken by an artist in a severely censored nation are done by Ai Wei Wei.
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Megacities
Today an explosion of huge megacities is posing serious local and global challenges: equality, pollution, sustainability, climate, space and infrastructure. The documentary series Cities on Speed focuses on megacity citizens from different backgrounds and with different stories. “When someone is sick, you call a doctor. But who do you call when a city is on…