tourism
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The Siege of Paradise
TOURISM: Follow the residents of Cinque Terre as they navigate a tourist economy that both sustains and slowly erodes the villages they call home.
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The Town That Drove Away : «We witnessed how urbanisation became a façade»
INTERVIEW: Filmmakers Grzegorz Piekarski and Natalia Pietsch explore Turkey’s cultural erasure through the transformation of historic Hasankeyf into underwater tourism.
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Smokehouses and soundscapes at the 65th Kraków Film Festival
The 65th Kraków Film Festival will open on 25 May 2025 with the world premiere of The Queen and the Smokehouse, a debut feature by Polish director Iga Lis. Lis’s film tells the story of Miecia, the formidable matriarch of a smokehouse in the coastal town of Łeba. For decades, her fish delicacies have drawn…
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Super Paradise
CONSUMERISM: Through apocryphal private archives forging nostalgia and conversations about the past and present, Super Paradise tells the story of a freedom oasis in Greece destroyed by cluelessness and greed, a tale that can be universally applied.
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Time to the Target
UKRAINE: Lviv, a city caught between everyday life and an unending funeral procession during war.
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Far West
TOURISM: The contrast between the poverty and resignation of Cape Verde's locals and the western big game marlin fishermen who are beginning to change a traditional way of life could not be greater.
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Modern remains
TOURISM: Combining performance, visual effects, newly captured and found footage, this hybrid work offers an exploratory journey through the desolate remnants of an abandoned tourist complex in Türkiye.
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Portuguese films shine across 2024 MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival programme
The MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival will take place from 29 July to 4 August, 2024. This year’s event highlights critical themes such as #immigration, clandestinity, #colonialism, #human rights#, and environmental issues through a selection of nine compelling Portuguese films. Among the national premieres is Savanna and the Mountain by Paulo Carneiro, a documentary…
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The paradox of travel
TOURISM: In the age of over-tourism, Onlookers asks what it is we seek when we travel?