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Family therapy in five acts

Streaming movie of the month: What really lies behind the word "love"? Two women meet with a psychotherapist. In an intimate dialogue between these three people, the past eventually comes to the surface.
Willemien W. Sanders -

Need to tell

A Norwegian film finally won at the world's largest documentary film festival in November – documentation of everyday life in Iraq, seen through the camera lens of an ordinary citizen who ends up as a refugee himself.
Bernard Dichek -

Presidents as deserved

A series of documentaries about Presidential campaigns from Kennedy to Trump can help us understand more about how to seduce people – or lead them off the edge.
Truls Lie -

Strong and long-awaited testimonials

By documenting the all-too-well-known international law case against Iran, the documentary provides an important and outrageous insight into the system's ongoing sitting systematic breach of human rights. 
MODERN TIMES -

Documentary!

A number of documentaries are emerging in the field of burgeoning journalism. This is a genre that is being prioritized today in a number of newspaper editions, where hundreds of journalists have been fired in order to fill up the shareholder dividend. 
Truls Lie -

On the way to genocide?

Norwegian authorities must decide what role they want to play in Burundi: violence is increasing, and trends from the massacres in neighboring Rwanda are repeating. The West is also responsible for increasing ethnic conflicts.
karoline@interfilm.no -

Movies that speak into the world

The European Film Prize LUX can be interpreted as a propagandistic EU project – but perhaps the prize also contains a way to activate the cinematic arts and increase the chance that the films can contribute to the ongoing social debate.
Steffen Moestrup -

The violence of silence

Four women are fighting to break the silence of the past in the war-torn country of Chechnya.
endreeid@gmail.com -

Hannah Arendt as a refugee

Hannah Arendt's acknowledgments of the escape's existential impossibility are fiery, and form a fundamental premise in the documentary about the philosopher who himself fled to Paris in a politically polarized era.
helgard.marhdt@ed.uio -

American fundamentalism and European refugees

The hunt for a criminal sect leader in the United States, a personal journey into Peru's violent history and an upbringing of a refugee from the former Yugoslavia. This is seen in three documentaries at the Tromsø film festival. 
MODERN TIMES -

When terrorism threatened Europe

The documentary A German Youth tells the story of the Baader-Meinhof group exclusively through archive clips. It does not make the parallels to today's news picture less obvious. 
MODERN TIMES -

Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview

To be alive, one must feel and think, transcend oneself. For Sontag, intellectual engagement was primarily driven by this urge for formation and self-transcendence.
Alexander Carnera -

She is Malala

Davis Guggenheim's documentary portrait does not contain much new, but let's get to know the activist, teenager and phenomenon Malala Yousafzai a little better.
Aleksander Huser -

Victim with resilience

An ex-prostitute woman is traveling around the streets of Chicago. Using her own gruesome experiences as a means, she helps others out of inferiority and a life that lasts.
endreeid@gmail.com -

A chaos of lies

What is it like to have lived a life as a reporter and NRK correspondent? On the occasion of the book of the guilty, we talk to him about Norway as a friend of Israel, about the massacre in Sabra and Shatila and about Norwegian diplomacy.
Truls Lie -

The roots the advertisements omit

Informative and unambiguous film about the modern slave industry of the clothing industry, which is in stark contrast to the smooth-polished advertising images we consume in line with our empty and ever-changing needs.
endreeid@gmail.com -
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