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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.

  • What about identity?

    IRELAND: Irish filmmakers redefine identity through intimate, political, and historical documentaries at the Krakow Film Festival’s Focus on Ireland programme.

  • Turkey’s military-industrial complex

    MILITARISM: Techno-nationalism has strengthened Turkey's proactive foreign policy, promoted national pride and reinforced the image of a powerful state. The 'zero problems with neighbours'…

  • Cinematic ethics – and dilemmas

    ETHICS: What can a festival's Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as…

  • Human Conditionals: The Girl Who Looked in the Mirror of the World

    PHOTOGRAPHY: Uncover the compelling photography from the 2023 cycle of the Prix Pictet award, focusing on the theme «Human.»

  • Real bodies, fake bodies: the dichotomy of female objectification

    GENDER EQUALITY: From Kurdish villages to college campuses, gender-based abuse knows no boundaries.

  • The liminal spaces of art and cinema

    ART: Three DOKUARTS-screened films invite both the scholarly aesthete and the public intellectual to reevaluate the perennial dialogues at the intersections of art, cinema,…

  • Chile 76: The aftermath of a broken mirror

    GEOPOLITICS: Delving deep into the murky world of geopolitical machinations where, from Iran to Chile, the US/UK influence cannot be understated.

  • Utopias of community

    FUTURE: Are we progressing towards an international society that looks after those left out of the conventional job market – and, with wisdom, transitions…

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