Warning of the future
Utopia: An essayistic documentary that stretches towards future visions and utopias, but with a bleak foundational tone and inability to see any way out of the paralysis it describes.
Attentive and timeless presence
SLOW TRAVEL: Animals often have an almost enviable ability to find their place in the whole. Why can't people do the same?
To escape the ultra-Orthodox lifestyle
Thoughtful story of a young girl leaving a Hasidic society for a better life outside.
False priest listens to true testimony
DIFFICULT ASKED: In Thy Kingdom Come, photographer and filmmaker Eugene Richards gives voice to ordinary people who are largely invisible in today's United States.
The omniscient but predetermined man
FREE WILL: Masterfully, the miniseries ask Dev's big questions about a deterministic worldview versus free will, and the almost unlimited power of modern "tech" companies.
Michael Moore's new film: Critical to alternative energy
ENVIRONMENT: For many, green energy solutions are just a new way to make money, says director Jeff Gibbs.
Chinese loyalty clashes with American tradition on the factory floor
GLOBALIZATION: American Factory offers a cultural collision and fraternity between high-tech China and American working class workers.
Nature determines, not we
PHOTO: The theme of the exhibition 'The Beginning' with Lennart Nilsson's photographs is particularly touching and thought provoking now that the pandemic is raging.
Wild West conditions in 90's Russia
oligarchs: Is former Yukos chief and one of Russia's powerful oligarchs, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a villain or a dissident?
Refugees, sports and photography
PHOTO: The refugee crisis in Lesbos is the worst we have seen in a long time.
When killing is the only solution
ABUSE: In an Iranian youth detention center, a group of teenage girls is being detained. They have all killed a father, brother or spouse.
Tesla: The visionary who wanted to give the world free power
FORGOT GENI? The film Teslafy Me wipes dust off the story of inventor Nikola Tesla, whom we can thank every time we are connected to the world.
South African identity
PHOTO: South African photographer Santu Mofokeng recently died at the age of 63. His image essays from the time during and after apartheid, however, live on.
Ground Fascism
ANTI-SEMITISM: Although depicting an alternate history of the United States during World War II, The Plot Against America paints a frighteningly realistic picture of how fascist ideology can unfold in practice.
Romania's bad conscience
HOLOCAUST: A doctor's diary reveals the troubling story of how Romania treated the Jews during World War II.
Everyday life with the dead
DEATH: The work of puzzleing about the dead in the cemetery is mostly about dealing with the living
Arms exports: A shameful political theater
WAR INDUSTRY:When the oil age is over, we can survive war - if we turn right. Drama series Made in Norway raises ethical issues for the Norwegian arms industry.
The radical settlers
A MURDERER: Human-hunting for radical settlers from the West Bank turns into a gifted psychological portrait of a tormented soul.
On the health loose for the fatherland
MILITARY SERVICE: Kelvin Kyung Only Parks Army offers an insight into South Korea's first-ever service, where the individual is given a collective identity.
Everyday life in Kabul
AFGHANISTAN: In the capital, Kabul, which only gets international attention when suicide bombers attack, director Aboozar Amini is a fly on the wall in the lives of ordinary people.
Goodbye to the film reels
CAPTURE: Cinema Futures is both a poetic farewell with a medium on the way out and a complex analysis of the many sides of the digital revolution.
Sensible Arabic film-painting
WOMEN: A sensual and strong relationship between women without a touch of Hollywood feel.
Saudi women's struggle mediated with soap aesthetics
CLOSED SOCIETY: The fight for equality and justice in a gender-divided everyday life is the theme of al-Mansour's fourth feature film Maryam, an "adult version" of the first movie Wadjda.
Technology for good and for bad
TECHNOLOGY: During the Sundance film festival and at the Berlin, several films with technology were shown as a central part of the action. What does technology do with us?
All the women of the world - united on film
WOMAN PORTRAITS: Woman is a sequel to Yann Arthus-Bertrand's panoramic portrait of humanity, this time about the female part of the globe's population.
