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Published in: oDR: Review5 must-watch Ukrainian films that pre-date Russia’s 2022 invasionFor an insight into the years preceding Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, watch these five films
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Published in: HomeIboga Nights: the last chance saloonOnly one conclusion from this film: iboga should obviously be made safe and available to those who are undergoing...
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Published in: HomeAvi Mograbi making sure we don’t see something that isn’t thereThe motivation becomes artistic. You want to tell a story like a good storyteller and then you become political...
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Published in: oDRFive stories from Ukraine'Open Access', a new revealing documentary from Ukraine, will have its UK premiere on 21 June 2014 as part of the...
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Published in: HomeSepideh – a stunning constellationAs a character Sepideh knows what she wants. She does not care for the manacles of custom or anything that may...
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Published in: HomeDignity and humanity in the face of sufferingDirector Boris Gerrets demonstrates that dignity and humanity can exist even in the most seemingly undignified and...
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Published in: HomeDon't miss Stream of LoveAfter a while, we begin to feel that the stream of love embraces many people in this community - there is so much...
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Published in: HomeIdiosyncratic modernisationThe images in Manakamana combine to create a fascinating story about tradition in transit, and the necessity of...
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Published in: HomeAvi Mograbi and conflictHe makes films about his people, his history, his politics and so ultimately he is making a film about himself. Film review.
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Published in: HomeIranian love of cinemaFilm can illuminate what it is to be a misfit in society, with all the anxieties that this position entails. Is it a...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s invisible youthA new documentary from Russia will have its UK premiere at the closing gala of Open City Docs in London (17-22 June 2014).
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Published in: openIndiaThe oldest auction house in India
This is no longer a stream of precious collectibles: it’s mainly junk. But the brothers are still determined to...
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Published in: HomeScrap heap, scrap yardMost of us share hard work, family and the hope of an easier future. Most of us want love, companionship and to be...
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Published in: HomeBosnia: the “lost generation”The international media can cast an unflinching spotlight on wars but when the war is over the spotlight is suddenly...
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Published in: HomeMaking it flow, somehowThis is not a film about the Egyptian revolution. This is a film about Cairo - and traffic. Film review.
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Published in: Home"It's going to blow up one day"Marc Bauder's Master of the Universe runs like a sociological narrative of high finance as experienced by one man,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Judgment in HungaryIn 2008 and 2009, a group of Hungarian right-wing extremists committed a series of vicious attacks on members of the...
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Published in: HomeOnce I Entered a Garden: a foretaste of the 2014 Open City Docs documentary film festival, with Israeli filmmaker, Avi Mograbi
openDemocracy welcomes a new cooperation with Open City Docs Fest, which is showing Avi Mograbi's latest film, Once...
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Published in: oDRMarina Goldovskaya: documenting modern RussiaLondon’s Pushkin House is hosting a retrospective of Russian director Marina Goldovskaya’s documentaries under the...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs & The American Criminal Justice System
openDemocracy & the Tedworth Charitable Trust proudly launch our multi-year, multimedia oral history project with...
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Published in: Live discussionsWhy do Russians support the war?
