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Visitors to the temples of modern art in global cities will be familiar with the white cube gallery space. But when one arises in the middle of a Congolese palm oil plantation, the effect is deeply disorienting. Furthermore, it draws attention to the often overlooked ties between colonialism and the art world, for example, through the multinationals that now proudly sponsor these Western museums.
This Congolese arts center is part of artist Renzo Martens’s unorthodox plan to jump-start the local economy. Former workers at the plantation make sculptures that are reproduced in chocolate, and then exhibited in New York. The plantation workers, most of whom earn a dollar or less a day, use the profits from this successful exhibition to buy back the land confiscated from them by Unilever.
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La prisión de máxima seguridad de Mangaung, en Sudáfrica, está gestionada por una empresa de seguridad privada, la multinacional G4S, una empresa británica presente en todo el mundo. El documental muestra qué ocurre cuando la prioridad es la rentabilidad económica, con guardias de seguridad mal pagados y la violencia contra los presos como resultado inevitable. La periodista de investigación Ruth Hopkins acerca los testimonios de expresos y guardias de seguridad que describen una situación impactante de la primera prisión privatizada de Sudáfrica.
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In this deeply personal film, director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a journey to understand the complex forces of racism and greed currently at work in America's prison system.
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Two Dutch lawyers, Michiel Pestman and Victor Koppe, travel to Cambodia in 2011 to defend Nuon Chea in an international tribunal. Nuon Chea, also known as Brother No. 2, was the second man after Pol Pot in the Khmer Rouge regime. He is being charged with mass murder and crimes against humanity. For four years, the documentary follows the lawyers in their attempt to give this man a fair trial, but the UN tribunal is beset by local interests and a government which consists partly of other former members of the Khmer Rouge who would really like all of the blame to rest solely on the defendant. What should've been the crowning achievement in the careers of the lawyers turns out very different.
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One of the world's best restaurant, the Copenhagen based NOMA and its renowned chef-owner René Redzepi relocate the restaurant and its entire staff to Tokyo.
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Documentary about the Dutch lyricist, writer and comedian Hans Dorrestijn. Dorrestijn is known for his black comedy. In his writing he deals with subject like depression, trauma and neurosis. This documentary explores his life and work.
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Soccer player Mbark Boussoufa faces some hard dilemma's. He plays in Russia, while his family is in The Netherlands and Morocco.
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Entrepreneur Daniel Knoop tries to make investments in the Congo, but struggles to make them successful.
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Entrepreneur Daniel Knoop tries to make investments in the Congo, but struggles to make them successful.
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Four men from Kosovo play cowboy like they used to in their childhood and compare this to the war they have just gone through.
