The deceptive glitter of gold
CAPITALISM: Established as the second greatest threat to humanity after global warming, the dark heart of mining pollution in South Africa is laid bare.
South Africa
The pain of guilt
COLONIALISM: Hung on the cross of history: pain and regret stalk veterans of a controversial South African military unit in Boris Gerrets’ biblically-structured Lamentations of Judas.
A well-wrought thriller about the death of a Swedish UN Secretary-General
In his classic Mads Brügger-film style, the Danish director seeks to find out who stood behind the plane crash that killed the UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.
It is «you whites» who created «us blacks»
AFRICA: It is false to strive for justice «at home» while constantly exploiting «over there», writes one of the contributors in a new anthology.
Food on a tormented planet
The world’s intensive food production and the resulting resource depletion may quickly lead us into serious crises. Something must be done about it.
Founders of Malombo jazz
A film about Malombo jazz, as played and practised by one particular group, the Three Malombo Men.