He was the first of the great populists. When Silvio Berlusconi came to power, he turned to the same people who had built his media empire to help him run Italy. Now, three decades on, these men reflect on how they married television, entertainment and populism to create one of the most powerful political discourses of our time. And how they profoundly regret opening that pandora’s box.
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In Chile, water is private property that can be bought, sold and rented. “Free the waters!” was one of the main demands of the social revolt of 2019. What has happened since then?
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Search-and-rescue pioneer Rafael Larraenza runs a harrowing, high-stakes DIY rescue operation for those who have gone missing crossing the US-Mexican border. He risks everything to find a mother's missing son before the border wastelands claim the young man forever.
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In a Europe where youth increasingly drift between political apathy and the lure of far-right populism, Serbia’s students have created the largest protest movement in decades.
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For five years, Rob Moore was paid very well to infiltrate environmental activists on behalf of the asbestos industry. But according to him, all that time, he was secretly working as a double agent, trying to reveal the truth about the dodgy oligarchs and rich corporations employing him. When the truth is exposed, he makes one final attempt to redeem himself. Premiering at CPH Dox, this acclaimed film provides a rare insight into the shadowy corporate spy industry.
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Isolated in an analogous Martian base in the desert of Utah, USA, an all-female crew alternate between simulation missions outside (with radios, helmets, suits and astronaut protocols) and the development of their research at the base, all aimed at contributing to the mission to make inhabiting Mars a possibility in the not too distant future.
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It’s an undisputed fact that the best place to raise a child is in a family. But all over Europe, there’s a shortage of foster families for those children who can’t live with their biological families. In a house beside a lake in Germany, three youth workers step in as caregivers for five children in a therapeutic residential home. We spent a year following them and the children they care for.
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October 7th, 1985. An Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, carrying passengers from all over the world is hijacked off the coast of Egypt by a Palestinian commando. It’s the beginning of a three-day ordeal that culminates in the murder of an American hostage and an armed standoff between two NATO allies to capture his killers. For the first time, this film brings together the main protagonists to reveal what really happened.
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Since their clandestine ordinations on a boat on the Danube in 2002, Catholic women priests have been challenging the Vatican to denounce its misogyny. For the first time, women priests have succeeded in obtaining a dialogue with the Vatican, prompting cardinals and Pope Francis to take a stand on the forbidden subject of women's ordination.
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