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.
No nation without (macho) culture
Chechnya: The great thing about Masha Novikova's latest film is how the film gradually gives you a sense of what's going on just below the surface.
Jesus from Instagram
RELIGION: The Netflix series Messiah asks the fascinating question of how Jesus - or someone who appears to be him - would be received today.
Life after sexual abuse
ABUSE: With considerable impact, the documentary lifts All that I am presented the story to one of the children in the Norwegian abuse statistics.
The neglected and aging
PHOTO - GRAN CANARIA: The purpose of the book Getaway has been to investigate the Westerner when he or she "enjoys, dreams, escapes and recovers".
Systematic persecution, violence and torture against the invisible Chechnya
CONTROL: A group of activists put their lives at risk in the fight against Chechnya's relentless persecution of LGBT people.
Portrait of an art thief and his girlfriend
THEFT WITH FRIENDLY: The artist Barbora Kysilkova makes a surprising request to one of the Norwegian thieves who stole her valuable paintings.
Two post-war migrants look back
Two post-war migrants look back
LIVED LIFE: Two short Austrian documentaries from Diagonale, the Austrian Film Film Festival, offer varied glimpses into the life and experiences of older post-war migrants in the capital Vienna.
The war reporter close to the truth
PORTRAIT FILM: War Reporter Robert Fisk has the courage to monitor and challenge. He is known for reporting from the front lines in violation of the official line of politicians and authorities.
Painful stories from the colonies
colonialism: Dorothee M. Kellou's documentary is a painful dive into the narrative narratives of Algeria's eight-year liberation struggle from the French colonial power.
Where there is love, there is life
HOLOCAUST: The film is neither a historical account nor a teaching of facts, but a beautiful, cheerful and painful collection of memories of a man who lived during the Holocaust.
A desire for materiality
PHOTOGRAPH: Can a photo hit us? Or can it show limitations imposed on the individual by familial and societal expectations?
Hope, fill and frustration on Greenland
INDEPENDENCE: The people of Greenland are dependent on the outside world, but they see hope for detachment based on their own natural resources and powerful investors.
