Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime
GAZA: On Francesca Albanese’ fifth report to the UN Human Rights Council.
United States
«Justice is something worth living for»
PALESTINE/ISRAEL: How is it to be a Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory? We spoke to Francesca Albanese about Israel’s war against Gaza, genocide, antisemitism, and impunity – from her specialisation on international law. She talks about political, legal, psychological, and epistemic violence – coming from how Israel, with Western acquiescence, has been threatening the Palestinians for decades.
The revolution may very well be televised
RESISTANCE How liberation theology inspired millions of Latin American Christians to engage in 20th-century political struggles, challenging traditional Church-Power dynamics for earthly justice.
The State of Abolition During Late-Stage Capitalism
ACTIVISM: Angela Y. Davis’s essays and speeches on abolition, feminism, and the fight for collective liberation.
Death, everywhere
IRAQ: The hopes and broken dreams of a generation who has known nothing but war since the country’s U.S.-led occupation.
Changing the world through documentary
MEDIA: Cultural anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner provides an easy-read introduction to the logic and visions behind Brave New Films, whose documentary production is non-profit and distributed through social and political networks with the articulated goal of mobilising resistance against capitalism, racism, and fascism.
FIPADOC asks «Is This How People Live?» at 2024 festival
From 19th to 27th January, Biarritz will become the focal point of documentary storytelling with the 6th edition of #Fipadoc.
Exploring cinematic reflections of crisis: documentary on the march
CINEMA: More prescient than ever, Doclisboa’s «Documentary on the March» retrospective provide a blueprint for today’s documentaries for social change.
What would you do if you didn’t have to work?
FUTURE: Renowned filmmaker Erik Gandini talks to Modern Times Review about the meaning a society based intensively towards work. But also more existential questions like Basic Salary, individualism – and interdependence as a way forward.
Chile 76: The aftermath of a broken mirror
GEOPOLITICS: Delving deep into the murky world of geopolitical machinations where, from Iran to Chile, the US/UK influence cannot be understated.
Between bricks, bytes, and belonging
IDENTITY: How do marginalised individuals navigate societal structures meant to exclude them? ‘Fairy Garden’ offers a raw and authentic look into the lives of two such people in Hungary.
An anti-anti-racism
RACISM: A neo-conservative movement has made its virtue to ‘expose’ the political agenda of critical race theory.