films
Globalization and privatization: “Our Brand is Crisis”
October 15, 2015Although it uses the Bolivian election and the GCS involvement as the basis for the story, it makes some plot alterations.
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War and anti-war films at Zürich Film Festival
October 15, 2015NGO workers entangled behind the lines of a combat zone during the final days of former Yugoslavia's warfare; Danes embroiled in Afghanistan.
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“Black Panther Party: Vanguard of the Revolution” – unfinished business
October 14, 2015A stirring montage of film clips, talking heads and still photos of one of the most dramatic movements in modern history.
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The Chile coup and Pinochet’s “Christian” torture chamber in “Colonia”
October 9, 2015German director Florian Gallenberger's Colonia is arguably this year's Zürich Film Festival's hardest-hitting film.
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Media exposés in new films “Spotlight” and “The Program”
October 8, 2015"Spotlight" deals with the heavy subject matter of child abuse perpetrated by those posturing as Christians.
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