surveillance
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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.
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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.
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What does it mean to watch?
PANEL: At Dokufest, a panel discussion posed this epic question: What does it mean to watch?
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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 ad-tech venue for views. Launched in 2021 to host advocacy films that often struggle on mainstream platforms, Cinemata now says it carries more than 6,000 user-contributed works from 30+ countries, spanning documentary, fiction, animation, and…
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Flowers of Ukraine
UKRAINE: On the outskirts of Kyiv, a woman in her 70s demonstrates her love of freedom.
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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.
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The destructive borders of European self-interest
MIGRATION: At the entrance to the Sahara, Agadez, Niger, reveals the human cost of EU migration policy.
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Terrestrial Verses
IRAN: Through everyday encounters, Terrestrial Verses exposes the suffocating bureaucracy and corruption stifling Iran's citizens
