The spiritual significance of water
ECOLOGY: Fresh from a competition screening at DOK Leipzig, Violeta Paus' short film is a haunting and lyrical look at water pollution and deprivation.
Why? Food waste, reproductive rights, and claiming the ultimate truth
THE WHY: Three shorts made over the years that are just as relevant today.
A common humanity
LIFE: A timeless study of village life in the remote highlands of North-west Angola is both intimate and humorous.
Ramallah, Tblisi, Tehran: The women driving their electronic music culture
MUSIC: A trio of short documentaries traverse Tbilisi, Ramallah, and Tehran, giving an on the ground look at how what each represents within a global electronic music industry and the women who have made it so.
Unhealed wounds
CONFLICT: The long shadow cast by the Bosnian war is glimpsed through the lives that remain broken and disrupted a quarter of a century after the conflict ended.
Warriors of the wasteland
RECYCLING: The consumer-cultural detritus of the wealthy occident yields unexpected consequences in a very different part of the world.
Burlesque and carnivorous satire
SOCIETY: A grotesque, unrestrained and entertaining satire on our modern-day decadence and gluttony.
Luxury for the masses
CONSUMPTION: A humorous and poignant commentary on the mass consumption of our time.
Waiting and seeing
IFFR: Two shorts from the 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam highlight experience from Central America to Pakistan, and beyond.
One learning, the other forgetting
CONTROL: The compelling and tragic stories of six women as the last survivors of the Gulag.