Soviet Union
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Re-thinking history
CONTROL: An animated coming of age story about escape from authoritarian brainwash.
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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.
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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.
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The tentacles of totalitarianism
JUSTICE: Standing up to a brutal regime, an Uzbek woman never breaks hope in fighting for family justice.
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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.
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Four measures against the use-and-throw culture
CONSUMPTION: Keucheyan does not want authoritarian Marxism where the bureaucracy decides what its citizens need.
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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.
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One learning, the other forgetting
CONTROL: The compelling and tragic stories of six women as the last survivors of the Gulag.
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Totalitarian regimes
STALIN: Loznitsa's new film has several levels of gazes that organizes what the audience sees. A timely warning.