Re-thinking history
CONTROL: An animated coming of age story about escape from authoritarian brainwash.
Soviet Union
Nothing to envy
IDENTITY: Annexed by Russia after WWII, inhabitants of a picturesque Pacific island long for a better future while finding traces of its Japanese past.
The great energy crisis: when love is not enough
NUCLEAR: Tracing the history and complex social and political forces that have fueled the conversation around nuclear power.
The tentacles of totalitarianism
JUSTICE: Standing up to a brutal regime, an Uzbek woman never breaks hope in fighting for family justice.
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.
Four measures against the use-and-throw culture
CONSUMPTION: Keucheyan does not want authoritarian Marxism where the bureaucracy decides what its citizens need.
Filmatic rebellion
CINEMA: Morgan Adamson’s Enduring Images brings new life to the 1960s revolutionary film and reminds us of the need to fight the prevailing forms of representation.
One learning, the other forgetting
CONTROL: The compelling and tragic stories of six women as the last survivors of the Gulag.
Totalitarian regimes
STALIN: Loznitsa’s new film has several levels of gazes that organizes what the audience sees. A timely warning.
Art in spite of the state
CINEMA: Reflecting on the destiny of art and the meaning of existence, Andrey Tarkovsky tells the story of his life and work.
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.
Is the EU «sleepwalking towards oblivion»?
POPULISM: Democracy Ltd is a wake-up call for the people of Europe at a time when the dark forces of populism are on the rise.