IDENTITY: Özge Baykan Calafato has collected a fascinating photo archive in the markets of antiquities and rarities of Istanbul. Through a selection of these photographs, she analyses the relation between population and state ideology during the emergence of the secular Turkish republic in the 1920s and 1930s
TRAUMA: Two Sarajevo Film Festival-premiered films take a justice-seeking women’s journey, revealing the resilience of rape survivors.
ISRAEL: A new Tel Aviv school brings together diverse students but displaces a religious school as it faces gentrification and integration challenges.
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SYRIA: A female cartoonist’s courageous, spirited view of suffering in war-torn Idlib.
ARMENIA: Through an activist lens, Motherland focuses the world’s attention on the 2020 atrocities committed in Armenia’s Artsakh Republic, formerly known as Nagorno – Karabakh.
NEO-FASCISM: Do many still have fascist yearnings today, or can one always blame seductive leaders? A closer dive into the 100-year-old Italian fascism and its descendants says something about the dangers we are likely to face.
IDFA: ICFR addresses a growing political prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers.