Free Leonard Peltier
RESISTANCE: Indigenous resistance clashes with institutional power, exposing deep historical injustices and manufactured trials.
Sundance Film Festival
The spiral of unrest and power
LAW ENFORCEMENT: In a collage of archival tapes, delve into the stormy era of the 1960s in the United States with a detailed investigation of the period’s incidents and their public reception through the lens of police militarization.
The new age of climate activism
CLIMATE: Four young women of colour take the fight for a Green New Deal to Congress.
The autocrat’s fatal signature
RUSSIA: A Sundance-winning docu-thriller following the recent attempt on the Russian opposition leader’s life.
Suspended in middair
UKRAINE: A small group of social workers work to create a much-needed safe space for children to live in.
The killing joke
NORTH KOREA: After the mysterious murder of North Korean royal family member Kim Jong-nam, two women go on trial. But are they criminal assassins or political pawns?
Last stop utopia
CUBA: After ushering in the American Empire and its eventual revolt against it, Hubert Sauper takes an immersive look at Cuba and its people.
Life in the Delta
COMMUNISM: The extensive history of Bucharest’s Văcăreşti Nature Park has endured many iterations, from monastery to prison to the world’s largest urban Delta.
For whom the bell tolls
CONTROL: A look into the advertising approach of politics through weaponized communication by one of the world’s most notorious public relations firms.
Nostalgia for public places
COMMUNITY: In the shadows of Las Vegas, real people, in an unreal situation, face an uncertain future.
Burlesque and carnivorous satire
SOCIETY: A grotesque, unrestrained and entertaining satire on our modern-day decadence and gluttony.
On the edges of Sundance 2018
There’s more that goes on at the Sundance festival beyond traditionally formatted film – this year VR was the biggest buzzword.