The Encampments
ACTIVISM: From Chicago 7 to Columbia, The Encampments shows how protest is reframed as threat, as language like terrorist and «anti Semite» is used to silence dissent.
surveillance
The Spies Among Us
CONTROL: From training teens as agents to weaponizing psychology, this story exposes the machinery of East German social control and its wounds that still linger.
What does it mean to watch?
PANEL: At Dokufest, a panel discussion posed this epic question: What does it mean to watch?
Cinemata aims to be movement infrastructure for documentary in Asia-Pacific
Cinemata, the Asia-Pacific video platform run by EngageMedia, is positioning itself as movement infrastructure for social-issue filmmaking rather than another
Flowers of Ukraine
UKRAINE: On the outskirts of Kyiv, a woman in her 70s demonstrates her love of freedom.
How to Build a Library
EDUCATION: Efforts to renovate Kenya’s historic libraries reveal how fragile democracies manipulate cultural spaces for control, suppression, and neocolonial interests.
The destructive borders of European self-interest
MIGRATION: At the entrance to the Sahara, Agadez, Niger, reveals the human cost of EU migration policy.
Terrestrial Verses
IRAN: Through everyday encounters, Terrestrial Verses exposes the suffocating bureaucracy and corruption stifling Iran’s citizens
Opening the files on lives under surveillance
SURVEILLANCE: A gripping exploration of Soviet-era paranoia and oppression in Ukraine.
Robert Kirchhoff: All Men Become Brothers
I am sure many of you remember the iconic moment from November 1989, when #Vaclav Havel# and #Alexander Dubcek# stand
Nikolaus Geyrhalter: «I don’t like humans as a species.»
INTERVIEW:The 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival paid a tribute to the Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter (51), with a masterclass and screening of 10 films.