genocide
Welcome to Chechnya is likely to be the most urgent documentary of the year, but makes many exploitative missteps along the way.
Jojo Rabbit is a movie that delivers on its promise of humor, yet it leaves a thought provoking imagery that speaks to the true prowess of the message behind the satire.
Romanian film I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History as Barbarians makes a bold statement about power and violence without resorting to fighting fire with fire.
The life story of activist Nadia Murad is told in On Her Shoulders with a lack of sensationalism, focusing more on her cause than the tragedy.
While The Promise has lofty aspirations and a flimsy base, it proves too thin and drab to be truly gripping.
Ignorance truly is bliss. Before watching Joshua Oppenheimer’s harrowing 2012 documentary The Act of Killing, I had no knowledge of the 1965-1966 genocide in Indonesia, which was initially intended on purging “communists” from Indonesian society, but resulted in a million innocent people being massacred. That I could have no awareness of the subject could be blamed on western ignorance – upon receiving the BAFTA for best documentary, Oppenheimer claimed that the UK and US were partly responsible for these atrocities to happen due to their insistence on destroying communism at any cost (a statement that was naturally cut out of the TV broadcast).