Public Television is supossed to show all angles of an issue, to give voice to all sides, to be balanced. Strong and controversial political statements are rare -also due to the fact that the different institutions and social groups that control that Public Service Television don´t like interference with their politics. Nevertheless, thee are programs and filmmakers who manage to take a stance and to provoke. this session presents three films of different genres that dare to get up people´s noses
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A radical drama. Radical in its political message and radical in its concept and mode of production. A collective drama. Dockers is not a 'Jimmy McGovern… -
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In a sarcastic manner, the issue of legalizing drugs is broached, using parody in different ways. Within this approach, for example, a comparison is made between drug… -
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In 1933, Henri Storck and Joris Ivens, two among the mostimportant pioneers in documentary film, made a famous documentary called Misery in Borinage. The Borinage is a…