Prevent the abuse of human rights in social media
SOCIAL MEDIA: Two films from One World IHRFF prompt us to think about what kind of social media we want in the future.
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For those who want to understand this crisis
Can justice be brought?
CONFLICT: A film set in the present, about the past, that points to the future…
The adaptive autocrats
AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton’s fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese’s mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.
South Lebanon as a lifelong trauma of silence
LEBANON: Young Norwegian soldiers sent to into Israel’s 1978 invasion of Lebanon received little recognition for their work and PTSD from a conflict they didn’t quite understand.
Palestine, Portugal, pluralism
Let me take this time for more examples identity is problematic. Who-you-are and where-you-belong-to are still debated. As usual, Norway’s
The Syrian intelligentsia observe the destruction of their homeland
SYRIA: How does one survive in times of war? By forgetting, or by remembering…?
War is a racket
CONFLICT: The story of a Romanian soldier in the Afghan war and that of a young girl who found herself in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Between two stools
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: An intimate look at an indigenous people’s tensions with Chile.
The spiritual significance of water
ECOLOGY: Fresh from a competition screening at DOK Leipzig, Violeta Paus’ short film is a haunting and lyrical look at water pollution and deprivation.
In our hands
ECOLOGY: Watch it and weep: Jennifer Abbott’s remarkable, poetic, and lyrical film about the profound urgency, grief, and gravity of climate change is deeply moving.