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.
MIGRATION: When visiting a migrant island like Lampedusa, what experiences can be linked to the theory of the ‘Other’? Perhaps some philosophers can show the way. Unless the migrants are the best guides.
RUSSIA: In this book, Alexander Etkind states that Russia is the least equal, the most militarised, and the most carbonised of all the world’s major countries.
FUTURE: Are we progressing towards an international society that looks after those left out of the conventional job market – and, with wisdom, transitions today’s military industry towards civilian duties? It’s conceivable that the new BRICS might pave a path away from today’s Western ideology.
HATE: Turkish-German Seyda Kurt is preoccupied with the concept of hatred as a catalyst for tenderness. Hatred often has its roots in racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and prejudice.
CULTURE: An insight into the unique liveliness of a forgotten subculture from emigrated Turkish guest workers and their grandchildren in Germany.
TRANSFORMATION: Probing the extinction of history in Zürich as a railway station makes way for a deportation center.
RACISM The 26th Sarajevo Film Festival winner explores the uncertainty of those made to feel like they do not belong.
CONTROL: In increasingly authoritarian Hungary, two women face several hardships in their adoption of a young Roma child.
The West is increasingly being driven by populism and xenophobia, and time has come to exercise disobedience against the state powers.