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DocPoint brings special screening to infamous Helsinki music club

IDFA REVIEWS

Beirut: Eye of the Storm

Director: Mai Masri

Four progressive women document the 2019 Beirut uprisings, until Covid-19 hits.

Our Memory Belongs to Us

Director: Rami Farah

How does one survive in times of war? By forgetting, or by remembering...?

Travesti Odyssey

Director: Nicolas Videla

Intertwined with days of protests, the final days of Chile's radical Cabaret Travesía Travesti show how important it is that the trans community stands up to tell its own stories.

From NY Tid

Palestine, Portugal, pluralism

Norway's Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt on working to ensure that Palestine gets its own state.

The military-industrial complex

From someone who should know the intricacies of foreign policy and geopolitics: Thorbjørn Jagland on military rearmament and enemy images – when it comes to the USA, Russia, China, Turkey, and Libya.