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The many ways of power

This year's Jihlava festival focused on political film. Several were about heads of state and the electoral processes that led to their victory.
Margareta Hruza -

To imprison a director

The doubts surrounding the guilt issue appear in the dialogue between director Askold Kurov and Vladimir Putin: It is not even clear what crimes Oleg Sentsov should have committed.
Melita Zajc -

MOVIE FROM THE SOUTH: The waiting room of death

Shevaun Mizrahi's Distant Constellation follows the slow pace of the old home and teaches us what it means to grow old.
Kjetil Røed -

The price of freedom

The sexuality of Lebanese Danielle Arbid's films is an expression of protest, struggle and rebellion against taboos. 
Camilla Shams -

Prison in the open air

How does the UNHCR run the refugee camps which together correspond to the size of the Netherlands? How do they manage to meet the needs of the 1000 new refugees who arrive every day? Welcome to Refugeestan.
petra.schlomer@gmail.com -

Black air and a new sun

Two widely different Canadian documentaries both delve into the relationship between energy and the environment.
Daniel Glassman -

A cry for Syria

"The same can happen anywhere in the world," says Evgenij Afineevsky, who, with Cries from Syria, gives a strong and easy-to-understand picture of the war years the country has been through.
Aleksander Huser -

No way back

Filmmaker Alfoz Tanjour shouldered the considerable task of documenting what happens beyond the tragedy of the war, in the private rooms of a population that has been suppressed by the Assad regime over the past 50 years.
Dieter Wieczorek -

One's own truth as protection

11. September was also the day in 1973 when Chilean President Salvador Allende was overthrown, and Augusto Pinochet started his brutal dictatorial regime in the country.
Willemien W. Sanders -

The freedom of dance

The movie Bobbi Jene inspires you to get more in touch with your own body.
Margareta Hruza -

Community Dream Life

If everyone had realized their fantasies, the world would have fallen into a snap.
Kjetil Røed -

Cemetery's new clothes

50 000 was killed in Bogota's former slum Cartucho – and countless just disappeared.
Dieter Wieczorek -

From inside the maze

Risk is incomplete as a study of the WikiLeaks and Julian Assange website, but an interesting human document.
Kjetil Røed -

Development at a high price

The government of Cambodia is tightening its grip on power every day. The highly tense situation makes the documentary film A Cambodian Spring all the more gruesome.
Nina Trige Andersen -

About technology and crime prevention

Pre-Crime deals with different facets of statistically based crime prevention work – from the police and social sciences, through technological conditions to practice and impact.
Swear Sand -

USA 2017: Women's self-determination right has lost ground

A documentary about what happens when the rights of the uterus becomes a political and religious power struggle, and the one who actually has the uterus is the loser of the fight.
jr@jessicaryan.no -
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