Declaring Cyber War
The 2016 Berlinale presents Alex Gibney’s Zero Days, one of the most important documentaries of the year.
USA
Into the billionaires’ pockets
«The war on terror» keeps journalists occupied and silences the population, all the while the war rearmament provides enormous profits – to the select few.
Jill Stein – the best of the USA
Facebook not only censors iconic war photos – they also removed a TV critique USA’s third presidential candidate, Jill Stein, did of Hillary Clinton in late August. By the time it was removed, Stein’s critique had been read 100, 000 times and shared 5,000 times over a period of 24 hours.
DRONES: A Little Piece of Norway
The threshold for killing someone is lower when you do not have to see those you kill. New leaks reveal the brutality of the US drone programme.
The invention of terror
The FBI observers and those observed – we watch them both in (T)error. This makes the film unique and a vital contemporary documentary.
Critique 2: Knowledge and Power
Laura Poitras’ Oscar-winning documentary offers a unique insight into Edward Snowdens historic whistle-blowing.
BEING PART OF THE CIRCLE
Veteran filmmaker Joan Churchill was the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking Award at Camerimage, Poland’s prestigious International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.
DOCUMENTS FROM THE U.S
We are drawing a line through three films from Sundance this year: politics, economics, and the Occupy Movement.
The rejected film
How can you violate basic ethical standards of documentary filmmaking? Iranian–American gadfly Caveh Zahedi discovers the structures of influence in his latest doc The Sheik and I.