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We don’t want the smoking gun at the head of civilisation to be a mushroom cloud

OPPENHEIMER: The mainstream embraces sex and death in nuke movie.
John Hawkins -

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...
Sevara Pan -

Festival Report: CPH:DOX INTER:ACTIVE 2023

REPORT: CPH:DOX INTER:ACTIVE 2023 presented seventeen immersive non-fiction across VR, AR, gaming, and Interactive Storytelling.
Steve Rickinson -

Observational cinema

THESSALONIKI: What is an observational style really – an old fashion or giving films something they lost?
Truls Lie -

NATO – an alliance for the 21st century?

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: NATO's new strategy document is a continuation of the neoconservative line after Anders Fogh Rasmussen's politicization of the group, revealing an ideological chasm between the old and the new NATO.
Marianne Solberg -

Fascinating fascism and seductive leaders

NEO-FASCISM: Do many still have fascist yearnings today, or can one always blame seductive leaders? A closer dive into the 100-year-old Italian fascism and its descendants says something about the dangers we are likely to face.
Truls Lie -

Festival Report: IDFA Doclab 2022

As one of the continent's longest-running programmes exploring new media and interactivity, #IDFA Doclab has steadily grown in size and scope, parallel to much...
Steve Rickinson -

Prosecution of filmmakers spreads «like a pandemic»

IDFA: ICFR addresses a growing political prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers.
Sevara Pan -

Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta and the question of ethics in filmmaking

ETHICS: The first season of Ji.hlava's IDFF Conference of Ethics in Filmmaking was a necessary conversation around the need for common ethical principles in documentary filmmaking.
Margareta Hruza -

Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting

CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him.
Truls Lie -

We must activate our voices for Iran!

The Norwegian-Iranian filmmaker #Ali Parandian# is the man behind the petition «The Nordic Film Community stand with protesters in Iran». The petition has so...
Pinar Ciftci -

The cultural identity of the displaced

IDENTITY: In two Nordisk Panorama-screened films, a growing number of second-generation immigrants express how they do not feel truly included in their European birth countries.
Margareta Hruza -
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