Thessaloniki
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A story rarely told
World War II: A harrowing depiction of the Romanian Holocaust told through small town photography and the words of a local, Jewish doctor.
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Making money by punishing innocent «criminals»
POLICING: In New York, people are being terrorised in their own streets, homes, and workplaces by the people paid to protect them. These realities should be impossible, but in these neighbourhoods in the US they are everyday occurrences.
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From riches to rags: Living the life among the Sierra Leonean elite to the American supermarket
SIERRA LEONE: Solomon Juxton-Smith is working in a supermarket in New York, resembling perhaps any middle-class American. But before this life he had another. He lived in Sierra Leone and his father was the ruler of the country.
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The long goodbye
PROSTITUTE:The short documentary Rita is the story of an old-school prostitute in Athens at the crossroads of her career.
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Exposing the misery of the Mafia
PHOTOGRAPHY: Letizia Battaglia never introduced herself as a photographer of the Mafia. She was taking pictures of Palermo, she says, where the Mafia is simply part of everyday life and routines.
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The art of displacement: mobiles on the migrant trail
MIGRANTS: The Fazili family shoots their perilous journey from Afghanistan through the Balkan migration route to an uncertain future on three mobile phones.
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A well-wrought thriller about the death of a Swedish UN Secretary-General
In his classic Mads Brügger-film style, the Danish director seeks to find out who stood behind the plane crash that killed the UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.
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The «pact of denial» in Greece
Life on remote Greek islands can be less than idyllic when cold weather sets in and the tourists are gone.
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Colonial voyeurism revisited
COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new.