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Published in: 50.50: FeatureAnimated documentary film tells story of ‘Armenia’s Anne Frank’‘Aurora’s Sunrise’ tells the forgotten true story of a teenage girl who survived the Armenian genocide of 1915
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Published in: 50.50: NewsHow a queer Kenyan film is outpacing homophobic colonial censorship law‘I Am Samuel’ is blocked in Kenya, but its filmmakers have found other ways to get their message across
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Published in: HomeCultural stockpiling: mind food in pandemic lockdownThe openDemocracy team's recommendations for books, music, films and TV that will get you through the crisis.
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘Lost in Lebanon’ explores restless wait for returnThe film examines various dimensions of loss through a new concept of life in exile, in a country where precarious...
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Published in: HomeWhite God / Black DogKornell Mandruczo's and Kata Weber's film, White God, is about Hungary, mongrols, Liszt ... and authoritarianism
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe rebirth of Iraqi cinemaA group of young Iraqi filmmakers are working on creating a local film industry, in an attempt to present...
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Published in: HomeSebastião Salgado, ethics of time
The Salt of the Earth, a film about the photographer Sebastião Salgado, is an invitation to self-discovery in the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe battle to preserve Bethlehem's cultural heritage
Open Bethlehem is a campaign to revive Bethlehem's legacy as a diverse, culturally rich, and entrepreneurial city,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFilm review: the architecture of violence
The Architecture of Violence, part of AJE's Rebel Architecture series, explores the use of architecture as a central...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFilm review: 'Omar' and the nature of colonialismA review of Omar (2014), the most recent offering from the Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, which portrays the...
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Published in: oDRSergey Dvortsevoy, Talented Ripple MasterSergei Dvortsevoy’s films may have won plaudits internationally, but his uncompromising observational style and...
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Published in: oDRBelieving in tears: a snapshot of new Russian documentary cinemaThe Sixth London Russian Film Festival, which took place in London earlier this month, introduced 11 new feature...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of myth making: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'Myths of human survival that evade questions of gender, race and social relations, won’t help us adapt in a world...
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Published in: HomeVapor Trail (Clark): wastes of history
A cinematic project in the Philippines that began as an exercise in political documentary and ended as excavation of...
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Published in: oDRThe Russian documentary: an endangered breedArtdocfest is a Russian documentary film festival, now in its fourth year. This year, due to falling production at...
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Published in: HomeGood people with camerasA can of worms is opened at the 54th London Film Festival
