Toxic secrets
RUSSIA: The dark side of environmental activism in Putin’s Russia.
AFGHANISTAN:A film full of controversies, from hunger, child malnutrition, natural disasters, and the declining national economy to the totalitarianism of the Taliban regime.
ANTHROPOLOGY:A study revealing that systematic torture is part of contemporary democracies
MEDIA: Profiling, information control, behavior-regulating nudges and the sale of personal data should prove to be the reality, rather than the realisation of the internet as a publicist network.
Director Karel Vachek just died, so we publish this interview. Fifty years after Prague Spring and thirty years after the Velvet Revolution, he looked back on the evolution of our society and predicts a transformation to direct democracy.
IDENTITY: Instead of placing each other in political identity booths, inflicting shame on each other, we should develop a greater degree of forgiveness and generosity.
JUSTICE: Standing up to a brutal regime, an Uzbek woman never breaks hope in fighting for family justice.
NORTH KOREA:Seven international artists travel to Pyongyang to participate in the hermit kingdom’s first arts symposium in a throughout provoking reminder how we are all products of cultural conditioning.
Loznitsa’s journey through the Donbass region is composed of a series of crazy adventures in which the grotesque and the tragic merge.