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Bitter Lake

Year
2014
Country
United Kingdom
Duration
137’’
Director
Adam Curtis

Bitter Lake is a new, adventurous, and epic film by Adam Curtis that explains why the big stories politicians tell us have become so simplified that we can’t really see the world any longer. The narrative goes all over the world, America, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia – but the country at the heart of it is Afghanistan, because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted our politicians with the terrible truth – that they cannot understand what is going on any longer.

Production and Sales
BBC Television, Broadcasting House, London, W1W 5QZ England, UK, +4403700103100, www.bbc.co.uk
Awards
2015 – True Vision Award at True/False Film Fest
Director
Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis is an English documentary filmmaker. Curtis says that his favorite theme is “power and how it works in society”, and his works explore areas of sociology, philosophy and political history. Curtis describes his work as journalism that happens to be expounded via the medium of film. His films have won four BAFTAs. He has been closely associated with the BBC throughout his career.

Selected Filmography

Selected: Pandora’s Box: A Fable from the Age of Science (1992), The Living Dead: Three Films About the Power of the Past (1995), The Century of the Self (2002)

Blue Hall
Kyiv Cinema
vul. Velyka Vasylkivska, 19
22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
June 2025
Democrats
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Democrats
Year
2014
Country
Denmark
Director
Camilla Nielsson
Duration
99’’
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Grozny Blues
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Grozny Blues
Year
2015
Country
Switzerland
Director
Nicola Bellucci
Duration
104’
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Ukrainian Sheriffs
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Ukrainian Sheriffs
Year
2015
Country
Ukraine, Latvia, Germany
Director
Roman Bondarchuk
Duration
85’
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The Event
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The Event
Year
2015
Country
Netherlands, Belgium
Director
Sergei Loznitsa
Duration
74’
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