Devoted to a double life
RELIGION: After decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a Japanese monastery in an exploration of truth, faith and love.
United States
A sense of place
UNITED STATES: A portrait of today’s USA through immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between.
The warlike mindset
UKRAINE: What is it about our modern way of life that promotes such hostility and military – technological «solutions»?
Communism, nudity and ‘romantic ennui’
YOUTH: Zhu Rikun’s new doc captures Chinese youths as they experiment with their relationships and belief systems.
Save Julian Assange to save democracy
JUSTICE: With the US appeal on extradition ongoing, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continues to face abuses and irregularities in nothing less than the fight for democracy and journalistic integrity.
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.
The new tendencies of Taiwanese documentary
TAIWAN: A creative mixture of documentary, animation, and experimental approaches, offers a spectrum of contemporary Taiwan’s lived realities.
DAFilms to host Roberto Minervini retrospective with live chat
Visually immersive imagery and scenes from the dark side of modern-day America are what characterise the work by award-winning Italian
The bodies made for war
CONFLICT: As Germany switches its military apparatus more akin to the USA, it is those without opportunity and means frequently finding themselves on the frontlines.
A permanent vacation from reality
CULTURE: Everyday life in and around the world’s biggest retirement community.
