Every night people speak to us through our screens about their pain in famine, poverty, war etc. What is the daily exposure to disturbing and violent events, totally outside their possibility to solve, doing to our audience? Can they only feel a fleeting sympathetic helplessness and then get on with supper? These two documentaries explore two intractable problems in ways which do not leave the audience feeling guilty.
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Unspeakable things occur daily in the world, but for most of us, they are like electronic interference on the screens of our personal lives. How are we to respond to the… -
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There is only one black and white photo depicting 250,000 corpses ... Why was the 1988 famine in Sudan ignored ? Sudan, Romania, Ethiopia... who decides what is to…