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Journalism’s future: finding truth in a post-truth world

The man behind Bellingcat — With his open-source website Bellingcat, journalist Eliot Higgins has uncovered the story behind the Skripal poisonings, flight MH17, and the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Now, he’s taking his investigations to the next level.

  • Activism
  • Hannah Clugston

How Jamaican women are reclaiming the waves

Surf’s up — In Eight Mile Bull Bay, a small fishing community just outside of Kingston, a collective of young women are taking to the waves – creating a DIY community for themselves in the process.

  • Film
  • Huck

Searching Eva: Identity and sex work in the online age

How to live digitally — Eva Collé is a writer, blogger, model, Instagrammer, sex worker – and now the subject of a documentary. We speak with the film’s director Pia Hellenthal and Eva herself about what it’s like to perpetually chronicle your life online.

  • Film
  • Katie Goh

What Netflix did next: fuzzy love & half-baked conspiracies

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into the latest Netflix Original releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is worth our time anymore. This week, it’s whip-smart New Zealand comedy The Breaker Upperers, and tone-deaf music doc The Two Killings of Sam Cooke.

  • Film
  • Megan Nolan

Politics, Palestine & PJ Harvey: the best docs to see in 2019

Catch them when you can — Luke Moody, Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Director Of Film Programming, pulls together a list of sharp, smart and touching docs to look out for in the coming months.

  • Film
  • Thomas Curry

Why the war on drugs is killing Filipino music

To live and die in Manila — A new documentary from Boiler Room shines a light on the defiant underground music scene of the Philippines – a country that’s being torn apart by political warfare and a violent drug war.

  • Music
  • Sai Villafuerte

Identical Strangers: the secret triplets that stunned the world

Strange but true? — Three Identical Strangers is a new documentary that tells the strange story of American triplets separated at birth – how they found each other, and the dark reason why it happened in the first place.

  • Film
  • Thomas Curry

‘Are women too emotional to hold positions of leadership?’

Meet the Judge — In 2009, Kholoud Al-Faqih became the first female judge to be appointed to the Shari’a courts in Palestine’s West Bank. A new documentary shares her incredible story.

  • Film
  • Hannah Clugston

The story behind the biggest killer of young men in the UK

Elephant in the room — In Evelyn, a gut-wrenchingly personal new documentary, White Helmets director Orlando von Einsiedel tackles the subject of male suicide; telling the story of his brother’s death, and the effect it had on his friends and family.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

The Syrian filmmaker who went undercover as an extremist

Risk and resist — In his chilling documentary, Of Fathers And Sons, director Talal Derki paints an intimate portrait of life in a modern Jihadi family.

  • Film
  • Thomas Curry

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