vietnam war
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The Encampments
ACTIVISM: From Chicago 7 to Columbia, The Encampments shows how protest is reframed as threat, as language like terrorist and «anti Semite» is used to silence dissent.
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RFK: Legacy
USA: Politics, memory, and media collide as Eisenhower’s warning, Garrison’s theory, and RFK’s appeal meet RFK Jr.’s claims of institutional failure.
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DOK Leipzig 2025 unveils US-focused Retrospective and twin Homages
The 68th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (27 Oct–2 Nov) will pair a historically framed Retrospective on critical U.S. cinema with Homages to filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt and the abstract-animation platform Punto y Raya. Titled «Un-American Activities: Films from the ‘Other America’ at the Leipzig Documentary Film Week from 1962 to 1989,»…
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Dokufest: Guardians of Democracy in Past Imperfect
DEMOCRACY: In light of the Western political discourse increasingly revealing its own hypocrisy, four DokuFest short films revisit the past, uncovering details that cast new light on the shaken image of today's so-called liberal order.
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Child of Dust
VIETNAM: Born of war and raised in hardship, a man’s search for his father becomes a reflection on identity, healing, and generational trauma.
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The devil in the details
CONFLICT: Uncover the truth behind Conflict, an engaging but flawed analysis of warfare from 1945 to Ukraine.
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The first casualty of war
JOURNALISM: The failure of contemporary journalism to hold power to account in Western imperialist wars.
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Everything is other people’s fault
MEDIA: Where advertising gives a feeling of well-being, desire and pleasure, new media consumption gives one of paranoia, anger and mistrust. Hate sells. Even on Capitol Hill.
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The knot in the heart
PHOTOGRAPHY:For almost 50 years, the photographer Eugene Richards has documented a variety of destinies, from crack addicts to people in emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals. What has driven him?