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One of the Country’s Most Exciting Filmmakers Experiments with a Collective Portrait of Iceland at Christmas Time—’Echo’, dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2019

56 short scenes allow an unprecedented pleasure to peek into the different households and community gatherings in Iceland during the holiday season

September 7th, 2020|Country: France, Iceland, Switzerland|

A Senegalese Village, Swiss Drama and a Masterful Critique of Globalization From Senegal’s Finest Filmmaker—’Hyenas’, dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1992

An anti-neocolonialist gem from legendary Mambéty: human nature and capitalist indoctrination are under scrutiny when a billionaire agrees to give money to her struggling hometown—on her terms

July 21st, 2020|Country: France, Italy, Netherlands, Senegal, Switzerland, United Kingdom|

Fighting for Change, Against the Odds and with Each Other, a Look Into the DRC Protest Movement—‘Kinshasa Makambo’, dir. Dieudo Hamadi, 2018

An incendiary documentary about three brave men at the forefront of the uprising against Joseph Kabila’s rule shows just how much the protest movements across the world have in common

July 9th, 2020|Country: DR Congo, France, Germany, Norway, Qatar, Switzerland|

Gasping at the Horrors of Past Internment Camps, as We Build More Prisons—‘Dead Souls’, dir. Wang Bing, 2018

An exhaustive, gutting look at a Chinese internment camp allows us to learn from the survivors first hand. However, what exactly are we as a carceral society taking away from it?

May 31st, 2020|Country: China, France, Switzerland|

Fuzzy Fur and Fuzzier Ethics of Taxidermy: ‘Animus Animalis’, dir. Aistė Žegulytė, 2018 & ‘Stuffed,’ dir. Erin Derham, 2019

Two woman-made documentaries about people’s relationships with dead animals offer looks on the matter from various parts of the world and across the moral spectrum

March 19th, 2020|Country: Canada, Lithuania, Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, USA, Zimbabwe|

A Dinner for Foodies and Cinephiles Alike: List of 5 Films About Food and Community That Pair Well With Meals

An international gourmet meal in five courses of cinema: diversity beer, weed soup, and protest tea, with plushies and spirits as guests—a tasting menu to nourish all senses

November 14th, 2019|Country: Aruba, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, USA|

Film: Taste of Hope, dir. Laura Coppens, 2019

Workers at a tea factory in the South of France fought their bosses in an almost 4-year strike and now run the place as a co-op: will they emerge victorious from the battles of competition?

November 7th, 2019|Country: France, Germany, Switzerland|

Film: No Box for Me, dir. Floriane Devigne, 2018

Two intersex humans in France and Switzerland build an affecting friendship as they learn to accept their bodies and battle the marginalization of intersex existence in the Western culture

July 22nd, 2019|Country: France, Switzerland|

Book: Carl Hoffman, The Last Wild Men of Borneo, 2018

January 16th, 2019|Country: Indonesia, Malaysia, Switzerland, USA|

Film: Venus Boyz, dir. Gabriel Baur, 2002

July 28th, 2018|Country: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA|

Music: Absolute Ensemble and Kristjan Järvi, Arabian Nights, 2011

April 19th, 2018|Country: Estonia, Lebanon, Switzerland, USA|