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Visions du Réel Review: Landscapes of Resistance

Within every freedom movement or organisation there are a number of diverse and unique actors, propelled by their own histories, beliefs and experiences. These groups rely on an act. An…

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Visions du Réel Review: The Last Forest

The Amazon Rainforest is a vital carbon sink and plays a key role in slowing down climate change across the world. According to the World Wildlife Federation (WWF), over 43…

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Visions du Réel Review: Flee

Throughout the current ‘refugee crisis’, which has seemingly been classed as such because it impacts on Europe, the narrative has tended to focus on generalisations. There’s an obvious reason for…

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Visions du Réel Review: Operation Wolf Patrol

According to the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) there are roughly 15 million people taking part in hunting in America. Whilst its popularity is on the wane, this differs…

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Visions du Réel Review: Cane Fire

For many, Kauaʻi is like paradise on Earth. The Hawaiian island is often referred to as the ‘Garden Isle’ due to the lush tropical rainforest which covers much of its…

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Visions du Réel Review: Many Chickens, Lots of Luck

When you mention the word ‘documentary’ to most people their first response is often to think you’re talking about some investigative TV programme. As a genre, evidenced by the fact…

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Visions du Réel Review: Lobster Soup

Until relatively recently, life in the small coastal town of Grindavík on the southern peninsula of Iceland solely revolved around the fishing industry. To a large extent, this remains the…

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Visions du Réel Review: Ostrov – Lost Island

The Soviet Union spanned a vast area of Northern Eurasia, comprised of a number of nominal ‘republics’ and comprising countless different races, ethnicities and religions. Its dissolution sent much of…

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Protester carrying a Belarus flag in-front of the police

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Visions du Réel Review: Courage

Despite campaigning on an independent platform, Alexander Lukashenko soon showed his true colours after his became the first democratically elected president of Belarus. One of his first major actions was…

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Visions du Réel Review: The Bubble

Largely thanks to an unusually long period of peace and decades of medical and scientific advancements, most, if not all, of the Western world has rapidly aging populations. Whilst standards…

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