Documentary filmmaking – a report from Alexandria
Ten Egyptian film students spent six intensive days in a film-making workshop in February in the company of the two acclaimed Danish filmmakers Mia Fryland and Flemming Lyngse. Read their report here
New opportunities for environmental and climate change journalism in China
Fifty years of breakneck industrialisation and economic development have had severe consequences for China's environment. Chinese media have a central role to play in spreading the "green" message. New report from IMS
Young lives in Badawi Refugee Camp, Lebanon
27-year old Sun Hee from the National Film School of Denmark flew to Lebanon in September to film life in the streets of Beirut. Instead, circumstances led her to the Palestinian Badawi Refugee Camp in Tripoli, where her meeting with three young, Palestinian boys became the focus of her documentary
Rain of bullets closes down newspaper in Yemen
For years, tension has been growing between the Yemeni government and one of Yemen’s oldest independent newspapers, Al Ayyam based in Aden in southern Yemen. Al Ayyam insisted on trying to uncover cases of alleged rampant corruption and mismanagement of state affairs, but in January security forces opened fire on the newspaper’s office and hundreds of demonstrators in January to silence the voice of dissent
The Danish connection to Fatah al-Islam
What role does the West play as a nurturing place for Islamist Mujaheedins and what is the link to the violence in Lebanon? Lebanese journalist Fatima Rida set out to find out. She met three men in a prison in Lebanon charged with belonging to the Fatah Al-Islam group that fought against the Lebanese army in the refugee camp Nahr al-Bared in 2007. The trail led her to