Current Affairs - Politics
20 YEARS AGO THE BERLIN WALL WAS TORN DOWN - VIEW EPISODES OF THE SERIES "BERLIN 20" ON FOUR YOUTHS BORN ON NOVEMBER 9, 1989 HERE
“Grow up, my dear girl. Grow up into a free and emancipated person. You are a newborn, as are all of us at this time. You were swept along by life. We ourselves can hardly recognize the world. We will have to learn to walk again. Let us learn together.” read more >
Africa: War is business
A documentary film that uncovers the system of moneymaking based on warfare in many parts of the world. It reveals the nature of a system that doesn’t stop at nation borders, despite UN resolutions and/or apparent peace. read more >
Anything Allah Wants
An impressive portrayal of the staff and patients of a desolate Uruzgan hospital. read more >
BACKLIGHT - A WAY OUT OF THE WAR ON TERROR
This is a film about Alastair Crooke, a man who believes, based upon his experience with negotiating with terrorists, in the power of talks as the only way out of the war on terror. read more >
BACKLIGHT ENERGY RISK
What will the world look like in the year 2025, when we reach the moment where oil and fossil fuels are in short supply? How will world leaders react when a major crisis hits under such circumstances and a quarter of the world’s oil supply is taken off the market? read more >
Backlight: 2010 - Bend or Break
BACKLIGHT’s economic forecast for the coming year(s). How soon will the world recover from the current financial crisis and what form will this recovery take? Or is the next crisis already on its way? read more >
Backlight: Cuba after Castro
Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba on December 31, 1959. Expropriation, nationalization of the industry and the departure of more than two and a half million Cubans followed. read more >
Backlight: Democracy Dilemma's
With this documentary, Backlight holds up a mirror to its viewers. Are EU citizens willing to accept the combination of Islam and democracy? Or are Muslims by definition seen as wolves in sheep’s clothing? In collaboration with Fareed Zakaria, Backlight will analyze the current situation in Turkey. read more >
Backlight: Endgame: a future scenario for Israel
A future scenario for the Place of Judgment, the Middle East read more >
Backlight: Energy War
The Cold War and the War on Terror were about ideology and globalization. The 21st century will be dominated by the struggle for energy: It will be every man for himself and it's going to get dirty. read more >
Backlight: Exit Afghanistan
How justified and necessary is the current foreign military presence in Afghanistan? read more >
Backlight: In memoriam Aleksander Litvinenko
It started as a possible case of food poisoning but within weeks turned into a grim spectacle of enormous political proportions: Aleksander Litvinenko, former member of the Russian secret service, died in his place of residence London last November, after having been poisoned with a radioactive substance. read more >
Backlight: Jeffrey´s Policy
What was deemed impossible twenty years ago, seems to be possible today: To eradicate poverty all over the world. That, at least, is the conviction of the American economist Jeffrey Sachs. read more >
Backlight: Kasparov's Other Russia
Multiple world champion chess, Garry Kasparov, exchanges the chess game for the political game.
This film is a unique personal portrait of Kasparov, a man with ambitions, dreams and ideals. read more >
Backlight: Living in the End Times according to Slavoj Zižek
In a provocative performance, the Slovenian philoosopher Slavoj Zižek ruthlessly criticises modern capitalism and gives his view on our common future. read more >
Backlight: Noreena´s Agenda
This documentary follows Noreena Hertz, who as economist and activist, plays a central role in the fight against poverty.
Includes an exclusive interview with U2-singer Bono. read more >
Backlight: point of View Iran
A searching portrait of a society in which religion and politics are interwoven in a potentially explosive way read more >
Backlight: QUANTS: The Alchemists of Wall St
What are the risks of treating the economy and its markets as a complex machine? Will we be able to keep control of this model-based financial system, or … have we created a monster? read more >
Backlight: Singapore Inc.
Fifty years ago, Singapore, the tiny city-state in Southeast Asia, was only a swamp where half a million people lived. read more >
Backlight: Survival of the Biggest
Will bigger still be better in the future of Detroit, Michigan and America? Or does the crisis lead to new perspectives on growth? read more >
Backlight: The Chicago sessions
Widely known philosopher and University of Chicago Law School professor Martha Nussbaum explores the ethical implications of the financial crisis during three sessions with a group of ten talented law and philosophy students. The grounds of the University of Chicago provide a compelling arena, since it is here that both economist Milton Friedman, staunch promoter of free market capitalism, and president Barack Obama, lectured. read more >
Backlight: The Israel Lobby
For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterized by the strong tie between the United States and Israel. Does the United States in fact keep Israel on its feet? And how long will it continue to do so? read more >
BACKLIGHT: THE SETTLER AT KIBBUTZ KARMYA
Division and friendship on disputed territory. The reconstruction of two family histories, their ideals and disappointments, which together tell the story of the sixty-year-old state of Israel.
SCREEN FILM ONLINE read more >
BACKLIGHT: THE VOICE OF GENERATION OBAMA
This documentary profiles the Obama campaign's massive youth movement and Obama's 27-year-old speechwriter Jon Favreau. read more >
Backlight: The world's next supermodel
The American neo-liberal version of capitalism is rapidly heading for bankruptcy. Is there a global, crisis-proof, economic model that can shape the 21st century? read more >
Backlight: Time for Change?
Meet the new revolutionaries of the Do-It-Yourself culture in Barcelona, Tallin and Jakarta. Modern day heroes. They do not wait for political parties or institutions to change their world; they simply do it themselves, by creating new local currencies, by working in social networks or by simply robbing the banks and redistributing their money. read more >
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
For ten years, the massacre at Srebrenica has been surrounded by denial. read more >
Closing in on Tanja
A desperate mother and anti-guerrilla fighter join forces to save her daughter from FARC. But does she really want to get out… read more >
Deacon of Death
The atrocities Sok Chea witnessed as a child during the rule of Pol Pot continue to haunt to this day, nearly thirty years later. read more >
Fortune Hunter, The
In April 2005, Hirsi Ali was unknown when she first arrived in the United States but she became an overnight celebrity when she was voted one of the 100 most influential persons of the world by the Time 100 event (Picture: Ayaan Hirsi Ali with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice) read more >
Hunting for Taliban
In this award-winning documentary we follow reporter Tom Kleijn and Joris Hentenaar, who were embedded for 2 1/2 weeks with an American unit searching for Taliban fighters in the vast mountain area between Afghanistan and Pakistan. read more >
I Am Ayaan
Filmmaker Eveline van Dijck met Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the summer of 2001, when she needed an interpreter while working on a film about a Somali refugee. At this time, no one knew that this young woman would soon be elected to the Dutch parliament and that in 2005 Time Magazine would count her among the world’s 100 most influential people. read more >
In the holy fire of revolution
This film gives a unique insight into the Russian opposition against the Putin regime during the last two years. Since the victory of the recent elections in March 2008 this regime does not tolerate any opposition at all. read more >
Jewish Lobby, The
How powerful is APAIC? Does this organisation really have a major influence on politics? read more >
Last Drop?, The
For centuries, water rights have been the cause of many of the Middle East's bitterest armed conflicts. Todays Israeli/Palestinian peace process has often faltered because of water allocation questions. read more >
Life and Deeds of Radovan Karadzic
This film presents some of the more prominent of Karadzic's many faces. read more >
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Looking for Reconciliation; A Burmese Odyssey
The military leaders of Myanmar (Burma) have promised general elections late 2010 and the start of a reconciliation process. Although one can have serious doubts about the intentions of the junta, reconciliation is endorsed by most people in Burma and the international community. It will be crucial to change Burma into a democracy. But what kind of reconciliation is possible in Burma, and can we learn from similar processes of unification in other countries? read more >
Monument to Unresolved Grief
A heart-breaking documentary about the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995. read more >
Mr. Israel, The Shimon Peres story
A film that allows the viewer an insider's look into the history of Isreal as told by Israel's president in an exclusive interview and as seen by political analysts, political friends and opponements, and his family. read more >
NEWS ON LOCKERBIE ! VIEW NEW FACTS ON THE CASE HERE
On the 28th of April 2009 the Lockerbie was re-opened, as the Libyan man who is convicted for life imprisonment for the mass murder of 270 people, will get a second appeal as there might have been a miscarriage of justice. The Libyan man, called Al -Megrahi, has been diagnosed with cancer, which has spread through out his body. As the appeal is expected to last for a year, time is running out for him. read more >
NOVA: Afghanistan
NOVA's cameraman Joris Hentenaar and reporter Tom Kleijn traveled to the Afghan province of Paktika, in the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. In this region Taliban fighters are entering Afghanistan along so-called infiltration routes or 'ratlines.' read more >
Return to Beslan
It had the world in its grip. Eleven hundred parents and children in School Number One in Beslan were held hostage by the Chechen terrorists read more >
Rise and Fall of General Mladic
This documentary examines the complex and contradictory personality Mladic. read more >
Sozdar, she who lives her promise
As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose for a path that leads to a battle of life and death instead? A film about a stubborn Kurdish woman who ended up on a road of no return because of her personal choices.
Sozdar, she who lives her promise is a frank portrait of the backgrounds and motives of Nuriye Kesbir, one of the leaders of the Kurdish resistance movement PKK. Filmmaker Annegriet Wietsma followed Kesbir on her remarkable journey, beginning in a Dutch prison and ending in the rough mountains of Northern Iraq. read more >
