For Life
PALESTINE: Longing for motherhood, a Palestinian woman embarks on a journey to smuggle her husband’s sperm out of prison.
Turkey
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.
Turkey’s military-industrial complex
MILITARISM: Techno-nationalism has strengthened Turkey’s proactive foreign policy, promoted national pride and reinforced the image of a powerful state. The ‘zero problems with neighbours’ paradigm that characterised Turkish foreign policy in the 2000s has been abandoned in favour of a more interventionist approach under the doctrine of ‘security at all costs’. In 2002, the total volume of defence industry projects was a modest USD 5.5 billion – by 2023, it will rise to over USD 96 billion.
Independent journalism
MEDIA: To uncover something about the independent media in Turkey, I visited P24, the centre for culture and political debate – in the heart of Istanbul.
Pragmatism and repressive politics
TURKEY: This autumn, we met two intellectuals in Istanbul about today’s Turkey – and attended a major conference there on political economy. Here, we look at the use of power, freedom of expression, the media, militarisation and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s political pragmatism.
Cinematic ethics – and dilemmas
ETHICS: What can a festival’s Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as humans, and what about our relation to nature? Can an old philosopher show us a way?
Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare
CONFLICT: If truth is the first casualty of war, then Gregory Carleton argues that truth as an ideal in covering conflict was born during a war fought in Ukraine nearly two centuries ago.
The impermanence of concrete
ARCHITECTURE: Victor Kossakovsky’s high art meditation on the failure of modern architecture, Architecton is a beautiful vision of how stone has shaped humanity.
Confronting the captors
ISIS: A shocking and brutal account of the fate of a Danish photographer held hostage held by Islamic State terrorists.