Love+War
CONFLICT: A first-person, morally unsettled reflection on what it means to document conflict when the storyteller is also part of the machine.
UN
Coexistence, My Ass!
PEACE: Noam Shuster Eliassi’s path from UN hopeful to fearless comedian, testing taboos and hope between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
The destructive borders of European self-interest
MIGRATION: At the entrance to the Sahara, Agadez, Niger, reveals the human cost of EU migration policy.
Terrorisation in the Lebanese skies
CONFLICT: Nyon’s Vision du Réel selection helps uncover unexpected forms of torture.
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.
The perilous path of exposing corruption
IRAN: Examining Iran’s lack of free media and the risks faced by those, like Roohallah Zam, who dare to challenge the clerical elite’s authority.
Could Taiwan be the next Ukraine?
TAIWAN: The democratic spirit of Taiwan and its complex relationship with its powerful neighbour.
«You may end up with the only peace – being the peace of the graveyard.»
INTERVIEW: We are talking with the previous Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the man who could have been prime minister in Britain, about current issues – like military build-up, Ukraine, Israel, climate justice and labour, security, democracy, citizen assemblies, and not least of all, hope for the future.
Utopias of community
FUTURE: Are we progressing towards an international society that looks after those left out of the conventional job market – and, with wisdom, transitions today’s military industry towards civilian duties? It’s conceivable that the new BRICS might pave a path away from today’s Western ideology.
We don’t want the smoking gun at the head of civilisation to be a mushroom cloud
OPPENHEIMER: The mainstream embraces sex and death in nuke movie.