Art students from Kirgizia and artists from Dutch Cascoland presented their 'interventions in public space' during Boom-Boom, the fourth International Contemporary Art Exhibition in Bishkek, August 2009.
More than half of the world's population now lives in large cities, and most of those cities' inhabitants struggle to survive in slums. A challenge for many architects is finding original and sustainable solutions that will improve living conditions in these areas.
At the first Bayimba festival, poor attendance and failing sponsors inflicted huge financial losses on the organisation. But it managed to pull itself together and this year, against all expactations, it's back on its feet.
Films by students are not normally played in the cinema or on television, and only seldom make it to a film festival. The Student Short programme of the Latin American Film Festival offers starting directors a chance to show their work.
During the Indy India film programme, April 2009 in The Hague, rare movies, produced independently from Bollywood, were shown. Shai Heredia put the programme together.
Do satellite television, the Internet and digital film offer an escape from censorship in a country like Iran? This what the viewer starts to wonder while watching the Iranian documentary Head Wind.
It's a man's world uncovers an urgent problem in South Africa: the traditional macho behaviour is no longer fitting in a changing society in which women live more as equals with men.
