Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more.
Lynzy Billing’s sister and mother were killed in 1992 when, amid the Afghan civil war, her home was raided by soldiers in the night. Orphaned when her father also died in the war, Billing was adopted, eventually settled in Britain and later returned to Afghanistan as an investigative journalist. Based on a 2019 article by Billing, this animated short documents how nighttime raids proliferated in Afghanistan following the US invasion of the country in 2001, even as the tactic became controversial for killing hundreds of Afghan civilians. The result of more than three years of investigations by Billing, the film profiles both local perpetrators and victims of these US-backed raids, and finds a still-flowing river of tragedy and trauma in their wake.
video
Food and drink
Local tensions simmer amid a potato salad contest at the Czech-Polish border
14 minutes
video
Technology and the self
A filmmaker finds a tactile beauty in the creation of her prosthetic leg
11 minutes
video
War and peace
A war meteorologist’s riveting account of how the Allies averted a D-Day disaster
6 minutes
video
Technology and the self
How the magic of photography brought Victorian England closer to the spirit realm
16 minutes
video
Neuroscience
Dog vision is a trendy topic, but what can we really know about how they see?
11 minutes
video
Information and communication
An animation built from road signs is a whirlwind study of flash communication
2 minutes
video
Art
Creating art that was aware of itself – and the viewer – made Manet the first modernist
15 minutes
video
Biotechnology
It’s our responsibility to engineer corals that can weather the world we’ve created
11 minutes
video
War and peace
A century later, can poetry help us make sense of the First World War’s horrors?
9 minutes