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Brexit: The shame of democracy

In this documentary we meet both people who voted for and against the UK to stay in the EU, as well as experts like Noam Chomsky.
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Gay in the era of late capitalism

Only the anarchists on the left supported them. But it was capitalism that set them free. The gay movement never became part of the labor struggle.
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The fight for a seat on the school bench

Claire Simon's documentary on the selection process for the French film school La Fémis provides a fascinating insight into the competition behind the arts.
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Odin's theater soldiers

Filmmaker Elsa Kvamme has previously taught at Eugenio Barba. Now his Odin Theater has celebrated 50 years, and Kvamme has returned – this time with the camera in hand.
Nina Ossavy -

Believers' wills

The result of controversial and acclaimed Michael Glawogger's latest unfinished work has become a dazzlingly beautiful, smoky, and buzzing epic about life.
Ellen Lande -

Clear satire in the route

Ruben Östlund's new film is very precise and direct in its socially critical questions, but has no answers itself.
Aleksander Huser -

Free movie – or?

The film censorship in its present form must go away. This is the reason for the start of the Free Film Association, says editor Bjørn Bjørnsen Orientering.
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Run, Leyla, run

After 20 years of foreignness, Leyla Imret became mayor in her native city – which is central to the ongoing Turkish-Kurdish conflict.
Bianca-Olivia Nita -

Goodbye, dream castle

A cultural opponent is dead.
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Poetry in Burmese

In conflict-ravaged Myanmar, poetry has been an important tool for dealing with reality. But the road has been short from the writing room to the prison cell.
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Robert Bresson and the film's vigilance

Bresson's realism is about reorganizing our usual ways of seeing things – about finding a cinematic space in which what is usually beyond our grasp can breathe.
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The Nobel Prize for Chaplin 

The time is not "in" to give Chaplin the Nobel Peace Prize – it's a shame he hasn't received it long ago.
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Lawlessness and dehumanization on the internet

The technology thriller about the online game Nerve is a fascinating internet dystopia with alarming many parallels to reality.
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Why are you living this particular life?

About filming – just to discover that nothing is changing.
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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. 
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The creation of a serial killer

In the documentary The Confessions of Thomas Quick, Sture tells Bergwall himself how he got psychiatrists, investigators and the judiciary to believe that he was Sweden's answer to Hannibal Lecter.
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