Movies: Western society

  • 2013
    Propaganda

    Propaganda (2013)

    Propaganda

    8.12013HD

    An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective....

    Propaganda
  • 2010
    Zimtstern und Halbmond

    Zimtstern und Halbmond (2010)

    Zimtstern und Halbmond

    52010HD

    German ship captain Gottfried Hinrichs reluctantly retires to his Bavarian home, hoping to find comfort when his daughter Barbara moves back home, convenient now she has become a commercial pilot. So he dishes out the usual objections when she tells ...

    Zimtstern und Halbmond
  • 2010
    The Codes of Gender

    The Codes of Gender (2010)

    The Codes of Gender

    6.52010HD

    Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the br...

    The Codes of Gender
  • 2015
    Laissez-faire

    Laissez-faire (2015)

    Laissez-faire

    102015HD

    A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives....

    Laissez-faire
  • 1986
    40 qm Deutschland

    40 qm Deutschland (1986)

    40 qm Deutschland

    6.11986HD

    Turna is brought from Turkey to Germany by her husband Dursun to start a new life. She soon realizes that he keeps her locked up in their flat every time he leaves for work in order to save her from immoral influences of the Western society. The drea...

    40 qm Deutschland
  • 2009
    Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman

    Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman (2009)

    Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman

    02009HD

    In these interviews, Dennis McKenna, Alex Grey, Rick Strassman, and other champions of psychedelics share their views on the value of psychedelic medicine, and its neglect in Western society....

    Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman
  • 2006
    Octopus Alarm

    Octopus Alarm (2006)

    Octopus Alarm

    12006HD

    Alex is intersex. Although he has XY chromosomes, his sex is ambiguous. When Alex was an infant, his mother authorised genital reassignment surgery, and he was thereafter raised female. Now Alex is an adult, and he is consumed by feelings of anger an...

    Octopus Alarm