Sobytie (The Event) – Tallinn 19 Docs
Sergei Loznitsa investigates the events that took place in Leningrad, after a failed coup d’état and marked Soviet Union's end, by creating a grainy prequel of his previous doc, Maidan.
CategoryPolitics
Elena (2011)
The Revelation according to Andrei Zvyagintsev doesn’t come after a terrifying future event. It is the already present moral collapse that will bring the inevitable catastrophe.
The Act of Killing (2012)
Joshua Oppenheimer creates a multilayered documentary that explores the Indonesian massacres by blending fiction with reality, the present with the past and surrealism with true horror.
Force of Evil (1948)
Abrahams Polonsky suggests that entrepreneurship is not so far away from criminality and that something is corrupted in the immaculate postwar American society.
Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) (Every Man for Himself, 1980)
Jean-Luc Godard explores the limits of individualism, apathy and venality as the children of Marx and Coca-Cola grew up.
Stachka (Strike, 1925)
The debut feature film by Sergei Eisenstein and the first archetypical example of pure communist propaganda.
Valerie a Týden Divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, 1970)
A disturbing surreal erotic horror coming-of-age fairytale of political allegory by Jaromil Jireš marks the end of Czechoslovak New Wave.
Kreditis Limiti (Line of Credit) – Venice 71 Orizzonti
Salomé Alexi is dealing with the sensitive issue of financial crisis in the post-Soviet Georgian society seen from a female point of view.
Fuoco! (Fire!, 1968)
Gian Vittorio Baldi directs a piece of art that through its consistency can work on political and dramaturgical level without losing its impactful realism.
The Look of Silence – Venice 71
Joshua Oppenheimer's second strikingly profound and captivating documentary looks straight into the horror of Indonesia’s hidden past.
The President – Venice 71 Orizzonti
An allegorical political satire by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, that despite the initial absurdity becomes predictable and didactic in a simplistic way.
A Quintet – Friend Request – Sarajevo 20
Friend Request is trying to deal in the most detached way with the unsolved and crucial problems that the Middle East faces.