South-America
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Through grit and gold
LABOUR: Man’s relentless pursuit of gold unfolds amidst natural beauty and peril.
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Diversity didn’t end social inequality
IDENTITY: For the young, queer community of Medellín, the injustices of colonial heritage consistently intertwine with the brutality of today's global liberal capitalism.
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Palestine, Portugal, pluralism
Let me take this time for more examples identity is problematic. Who-you-are and where-you-belong-to are still debated. As usual, Norway’s Foreign Minister led the Donor Group for Palestine (AHLC) – this time at Oslo City Hall for a couple of hundred participants, such as Palestinians, Israelis, the United States, the EU, Russia, the UN and…
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Jammed
PRISON: Light is shed on the failure of Chile's prison system as 81 inmates burn to death while their families remain behind locked gates.
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Raw, naked, and masculine
AFRICA: Before, it was the Baroque that seduced Achille Mbembe, now it's brutalism – used as an analytical breakthrough to understand Africa and its relationship to Europe.
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A sense of pride, of vision
Two docs about South American life and politics show both the squalor of economic repression and the fight to change history - some use leftist tactics, others use art and garbage. Both films listen to the marginalized victims of privatization, pollution and poverty.