war crimes
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Russians at War
RUSSIA: An anti-war camera slips past permits and platitudes, capturing motives, injuries, and doubts while institutions debate safety, speech, and empathy.
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Francesca Albanese: From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide
PALESTINE: Francesca Albanese’s UN report on Israel’s occupation of Palestine, widening culpability to global enablers and calling for prosecutable corporate accountability.
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
GAZA: Forensically detailed, utterly balanced and absolutely damning, a British documentary banned by the BBC should be required viewing for every craven Western leader that supports Israel's war on Palestinians.
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The endurance of the ordinary
UKRAINE: Olha Zhurba's meditative take on the war avoids frontline images to show how the conflict affects ordinary people.
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An unknown soldier
CONFLICT: Contrasting quiet Ukrainian life compositions with intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families.
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The case of Dominic Ongwen
It is certainly refreshing when invited speakers at a film talk are unafraid to venture into contested waters well beyond the bounds of a film’s story. This year’s edition of Movies that Matter featured one of such talks, which took place in connection with the Dutch premiere of Theatre of Violence, a Danish-German documentary production…
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Can justice be brought?
CONFLICT: A film set in the present, about the past, that points to the future...
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A lesson in past and present war crimes
UKRAINE: Sergei Loznitsa's new archive-based doc is an impressive reconstruction of the trial of 15 Nazi officers in Kiev after World War II, inevitably making the viewer reflect on more recent war crimes.
