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Protest can cost you your life

Nina Lakhani: Who Killed Berta Cáceres?

HONDURAS: Nina Lakhani's dangerous search for the truth behind the murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres ends up in more questions than answers.
Pinar Ciftci -
literature

New energy production must be decarbonised, decentralized and digitized

Ashley Dawson: People's Power. Reclaiming the EnergyCommons

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: The climate crisis is an energy crisis. Today, the environmental movement must be careful not to support capitalist exploitation through well-meaning green innovations.
Andrew Kroglund -
documentary

The shaman and the Norwegian engineer

Audun Amundsen: Newtopia

COMMUNITY: The expectation of a paradise free of modern progress turned into the story of the opposite, but most of all Newtopia is about two very different men who support and help each other when life is most brutal.
Ellen Lande -
documentary

Without any idea of ​​the future

Jure Breceljnik, Rozle Bregar: The Last Ice Hunters

THE INUT CULTURE: The Last Ice Hunters explore the infamous hunting culture of the Inuit far to the north and its inevitable finality.
dieter@gmail.com -
documentary

The documentary as a means of communication

Matt Peterson, Malek Rasamny: Spaces of Exception

: Spaces of Exception compares the experience of oppression and resistance, and finds similarities between North American Indian reservations and Palestinian refugee camps.
Carmen Gray -
internationally

Zapatista prescription for Mexico

: The herbalist María de Jesús Patricio Martínez is already historically the presidential candidate of the Zapatistas. Together, they will heal Mexico by destroying capitalism – before it destroys them.
paal.velo@gmail.com -
documentary

A periphery so peripheral that it is inconceivable

Simon Stadler: Ghost Country.

: Ghostland is an anthropological documentary and road movie of high artistic quality – but the relationship of trust between the filmmaker and the audience is eroding.
trond.solberg@ibsen.uio.no -
internationally

Punished for protesting

: Latin American farmers and indigenous peoples face government and military sanctions.
Carima Tirillsdottir Heinesen -

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