On the dark side of truth
MEDIA: The struggle for truth – and thus for documentary – has become brutal. A new book analyzes how truth claims and digital culture shape our political realities.
United States
Proud to be an American
POLITICS: Touching on almost every aspect of life, Frederick Wiseman’s latest opus illustrates all ways a local city administration can engage in civil discourse with its citizens.
The death of democracy by a thousand cuts
JOURNALISM: A vivid portrait of tenacious Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, founder of the Duterte-critical Rappler.com.
The land of dark cities
CULTURE: A saturated hybrid of a distinct musical subculture and the complicated city dynamics that help create it.
Neither banal nor evil
CONTROL: A search for understanding from a survivor of Aum Shinrikyo’s 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway.
Last stop utopia
CUBA: After ushering in the American Empire and its eventual revolt against it, Hubert Sauper takes an immersive look at Cuba and its people.
Factory farming filth
FARMING: The filth and falsification at the heart of the factory farming system – responsible for up to 50 percent of the world’s climate change – is revealed.
When society is antisocial, who calls it out?
CLIMATE: Since her solitary protest outside Swedish parliament, Greta Thunberg now leads a global movement on the climate change crisis.
Classifying poison in the system
RACISM The 26th Sarajevo Film Festival winner explores the uncertainty of those made to feel like they do not belong.
A Serbian survivor finds solidarity in stories
TRAUMA: The aftermath of sexual assault, its causes and effects, through intimate testimonies of survivors.
A woman’s struggle with reality
WOMEN OF EUROPE: Sweden’s former Foreign and Vice Prime Minister Margot Wallström believes we currently live in a world of autocrats, where Nordic welfare values have poor conditions.
Where are we going now?
VIEWS: Is globalisation an evil that should now be fought? No, it’s more nuanced. We who have an international orientation look with fear at how international cooperation is now weakening with the pandemic.