Whether money makes the world go around, or slows the world’s movement, is a matter of dispute throughout the history of money. However, these films show us how financial transactions and monetary interests are an engine of our world’s political, social, and environmental experience; an engine that is much more influential than visible to the eye.
Almost no one would dare to call it “liquid gold” any more, but oil is still the fuel that drives our society. Activists, investors and most of all the planet itself are demanding change. But how to dismantle a machine that we are so dependent on?
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A portrait of 14-year-old Leonie, a successful teenage influencer from Berlin. It seems like a fairy tale, all the followers, attention and free products, but the continuous pressure to produce content threatens to overwhelm her family.
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Nan Goldin earned fame for her intimate and often intense photos of subcultures she was part of. Now she's fighting the Sackler family, whose wealth comes from selling the addictive painkiller OxyContin. A moving, visual story about love and pain.
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Israel has banned harvesting za’atar and akoub, two plants essential to Palestinian cuisine. Officially, it’s to preserve nature, but Palestinian wild pickers see it differently. A subtle but powerful film on how politics can reach into the kitchen.
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The former French colonies in Central and West Africa have been independent since 1960, but many of these countries still use the currency of the former oppressor: the CFA franc. A new generation wants to complete the process of decolonization.
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A playfully styled portrait loosely based on memoirs published in 1889, evoking recollections of an unspoiled Chile that reflect on the here and now. But the portrayal also sheds light on what has been lost through colonization and modernization.
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The right to spend the final years of your life in dignity is threatening to become unaffordable. This unorthodox combination of classic documentary and musical is a sharp indictment of market forces in the care for the elderly in Finland.
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The fast-growing nonprofit organization GiveDirectly distributes a universal basic income to poor villages. Its implementation in Kogutu, Kenya, reveals the gap between ideology and reality.
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In this week's set on Paradocs: A film about the boundaries of a love that supposedly knows no bounds, between a Taiwanese mother and her daughter who is studying abroad.
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A better life seems so close here, among the skyscrapers of Addis Ababa. But the people living in the Katanga district know how difficult it is to get ahead—and that only strengthens their resilience, and their love-thy-neighbor take on life.
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A thought-provoking examination of the term “public domain” and deconstruction of the practice that allows historical footage to be placed behind the paywalls of companies such as Getty Images after their copyrights have expired.
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