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HUMAN IDFF

The rise and fall of the feminist

What happens when you end up in a position to actually realize the policy you claim to stand for? Director Viktor Nordenskiöld has been following former Foreign Minister in Sweden, Margot Wallström, for four years.
Ellen Lande -

Selviscenesættende

Brügger delivers his best film here, about Dag Hammarskjöld.
mail@tuesday.dk -

Sentenced to prison for his poetry

TEL AVIV: Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was arrested and placed under house arrest by Israeli authorities in October 2015. Because of a poem. Well, she's out of house arrest. 3. March she comes to Oslo (at Vega, the salon).
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Viva la vagina!

The #FEMALE PLEASURE documentary unveils the demonization of the female body and breaks the silence of female sexuality.
Pinar Ciftci -

Mladic behind lock and turn, but the Balkans still on the bare ground

The Trial of Ratko Mladic is an informative documentary that lays the controversy of the war crimes tribunal.
siri@nytid.no -

Captivating about the theft from the public purse

The Panama Papers emerge as a captivating thriller about the worldwide scam that led to a multi-billion dollar tax escape.
Nick Holdsworth -

A descent into the world of torture

SYRIA: In a simulated prison cell, in a basement in Oslo, sit three men from Syria. It is a strong political documentary.
Andrew P. Kroglund -

Shout from a wounded globe

A disturbing documentary from a disaster-prone area shows what can happen if the natural devastation is allowed to continue.
Ellen Lande -

The letter from hell

A letter hidden in a halloween decoration changes the life of both the Chinese sender and the American recipient. At the same time, it exposes the dividend in the international mass production industry.
Ellen Lande -

Anti-immigration as a "democratic" fear policy in Hungary

What we follow throughout the film is a caricature of an election campaign where it is given in advance who wins.
Mikkel Bolt -

They risk life for writing

How often do we read writers who have had to flee from war, death threats, torture and prison? But do we really long for a kind of detachment from a safe, prosperous, sheltered society?
thohill89@gmail.com -

One in a million

In The Poetess, we get to follow the only female participant in the most popular talent show in the Middle East, who through her poetry exhibits an extraordinary courage against gender segregation.
Carmen Gray -

A jihadist family portrait

Talal Derki's new documentary provides a rare insight into how the sons of al-Nusra warriors in Syria's Idlib province are being raised to become the next generation of jihadists.
Aleksander Huser -

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