All bodies are good bodies!
IDENTITY A Scandinavian doc making a bid to renegotiate fatness.
Sweden
The dark art of politics
CONTROL: Intersecting power, truth, and myth through Finnish hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo.
The tentacles of totalitarianism
JUSTICE: Standing up to a brutal regime, an Uzbek woman never breaks hope in fighting for family justice.
A world in stable motion
MIGRANTS: In 2018, the Collège de France established its own professorship in migration studies. Francois Héran was chosen to fill it, and the book Migrations et sociétés is an extended version of his accession lecture.
From the frontlines of the war on refugees
REFUGEES: Chinese artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei follows up his documentary Human Flow with a reportage from the warzones that await refugees in Europe. The Rest is about the millions who came for shelter but found none.
To set out for the Moon
Hamada turns the attention to the rocky, wind-eroded desert of the Western Sahara, where the Sahrawi people have resided in refugee camps for more than 40 years.
From an underground artist to a pop icon
A fierce and vulnerable woman,Silvana is a portrait of a young musician with a powerful message and a personality difficult to define in plain words.
Letter to an unhappy painting
The daughter Sara Broos decided to make a documentary to get closer to her mum, the renowned Swedish painter, Karin Broos.
Meeting your “demons”
At first, one takes The Reunion for the “re-enacted documentary” it’s meant to be. But then things start to get a bit complicated. Pamela Cohn met the artist Anna Odell, who is the director of a film that transgresses genre.
THE INTELLIGENT SMILE
Selected from 350 hours of film archives, the film on Swedish politician Olof Palme shows him in several interesting political situations. I do miss some deeper insights into a few of those situations, but the multiplicity of the film should definitely satisfy a large audience, or new generations.
