Raoul Peck (Port-au-Prince, 1953) was Minister of Culture in Haiti (from 1996 to 1997) before becoming a filmmaker, but his political vision of the world never leaves him: Orwell 2+2=5, Premiering this Friday, this impressive documentary transforms George Orwell's thinking into a powerful analytical tool for understanding our times. It's not just about highlighting the prophetic dimension of the author of 1984 and The Rebellion of the Animalsbut to delve deeper into the lucidity of a work that is more relevant than ever.

MelaniaThe documentary about the First Lady of the United States, which premieres this Friday simultaneously in 27 countries, including ours, will be one of the most heavily promoted documentary films in history: according to Matthew Belloni, a journalist specializing in the Hollywood industry.Amazon will invest nearly €30 million in promoting a film that, after a bidding war with Disney and Paramount, it acquired a few months ago for the astonishing sum of €33 million. However, two days before its release, no press screenings have taken place, either in the United States or anywhere else in the world. Neither film critics nor political journalists have seen it; only the guests at a private screening held on Saturday at the White House. Among those present were former boxer Mike Tyson, Queen Rania of Jordan, Madrid native Georgina Rodríguez, and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

"They'll make a man out of you in the army" was one of the most common phrases heard when mandatory military service was still in effect. For some people, spending time in a barracks for military training was a way to bring out a supposed virility. All of that is in the past, but the traumatic stories are still remembered: denigrating "rabbits"—new recruits—was a pastime of those of higher rank and veterans, some of whom were driven to these practices if they didn't want to become victims themselves. Following the success of the documentary They'll make you a manMireia Prats and Joan Torrents now showcase the work of eight months of research for a sequel to that piece. They'll Make You a Man: Silenced Deaths It delves into several cases of deaths under strange circumstances that occurred in military barracks, deaths that remain shrouded in doubt because they were never properly investigated. The production premieres this Tuesday on TV3 and on the 3Cat platform.

A year ago, Joan Dausà fulfilled his madness and made his dream come true. He managed to fill the Palau Sant Jordi with more than 16,000 people and the Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid with more than 11,000 spectators. Legends like Joan Manel Serrat and Lluís Llach are among the few soloists to have filled the Sant Jordi with Catalan. This October 28th, a documentary about the Catalan musician born in Sant Feliu de Llobregat premieres on Filmin. It reviews his story and explains what it was like to fill these two great venues.

On Tuesday night we went to sleep devastated after seeing Inside Gaza, the documentary that collects the testimony of Palestinian journalists from Agence France Presse who were working inside the conflict zone until their evacuation. It also compiles all their audiovisual material, much of it previously unpublished. Finally, one Non-fiction Powerful and timely, with a subsequent analysis table.

I have seen, and I recommend, the documentary Goodbye, savages, which is being offered to Filmin. It's the story of a couple—she, Norwegian; he, English—who decide to live far from the city, in direct contact with wild nature, on an isolated farm. The couple has three sons and a daughter from a previous relationship. The mother, a photographer, documents family life in a diary full of images.

Sir David Attenborough opens his documentary Ocean with a sentence: "After almost a century on this planet, I now understand that the most important place is not the land but the sea." He says this from the sand of an Atlantic Ocean beach and, with his ability to listen, tells us about the mysteries that have historically surrounded the seabed. "We live in the era of the greatest oceanic discoveries. For many of us, the marine world remains dark, feared, and dangerous, far from our sight and, without a doubt, beyond our imagination," says Attenborough, who reminds us that humankind has explored other planets more than the ocean floor.

In-Edit Empordà, the documentary film program of the Torroella de Montgrí Festival, opens its second edition on July 1st with a program that doubles the number of screenings compared to last year and incorporates complementary activities with short concerts and discussions. The duration of this audiovisual program has also been extended, extending until August 19th. The sessions will be held at the Cine Montgrí in Torroella and at the Palau Solterra, part of the Vila Casas Foundation.

Fourteen years ago, Osama bin Laden was shot dead by a U.S. military special force in a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was living in hiding with his family and close circle. His body was then dumped in an unspecified location in the Indian Ocean. Barack Obama appeared before the media to inform the world that justice had been done. And now Netflix has released an addictive documentary miniseries chronicling the long process of capturing the man who was once the world's most wanted. Three fifty-minute episodes build to a narrative crescendo that surpasses any other. thriller from Hollywood. The last episode is exciting. Relentless Hunt: Osama bin Laden (American manhunt: Osama bin Laden) begins with a summary of the 9/11 attacks and how the US government and law enforcement agencies reacted to the tragedy. Fifteen very well-condensed minutes place us at the starting point of the plot: the official announcement of the search for and arrest of the al-Qaeda leader. The script is constructed from the statements of the main people involved in the investigation and those close to President Obama: from the top CIA officials to the analysts, including the government's counterterrorism chief and the heads of operations. The role of the all-female CIA team, who dedicated themselves body and soul to the investigation, is very relevant. Witnesses come forward, and we see them in photographs that demonstrate their direct involvement in the case. The chronology and geographical location are always specified, because the story frequently jumps in time and space. The viewer is never overwhelmed by the story. On the contrary, there's a certain obsession with helping us understand its nuances and obstacles, although it would be naive to think that all the secrets of the mission are revealed. The protagonists are interviewed in comfortable, domestic settings so that the story also exudes emotion to reinforce the personal, moral, and ethical implications and generate an epic tale typical of American audiovisual narrative.

On Tuesday nights, on TV3, we no longer know if we will see the Non-fiction or the Nights without fiction, in a disconcerting botch by the network that has managed to dismantle the brand instead of strengthening it. There is no coherent criterion for the viewer. Let's assume that all this has to do with internal filigrees. In any case, on the 3Cat platform everything is collected under the title of Non-fiction to recover it.

"Non serviam" ("I will not serve you" in Latin) are the words that Christian tradition attributes to Lucifer, when he rebels against God and lets him know that he renounces him. James Joyce uses this expression in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, when his Stephen Dedalus decides to live an artist's life and, as he puts it: "No longer serve that in which I do not believe, be it called home, family or Church" (you can read the work in the Catalan translation by Teresa Vernet; I don't think there is a more recent version). Generally, "Non serviamIt is considered an expression of rebellion that can be invoked by all those who rise up against the dominant way of thinking.

We hear an elderly woman coughing, struggling to breathe. She feels as if she's suffocating. Despite everything, a very cracked female voice makes an effort and recites a text: "I use the most expensive hair dye in the world. It's not that I care about money, but I care about my hair. It's not just the color. I expect great color. What's important to me is how my hair feels." From a wonderful New York apartment decorated with exquisite taste. The woman stops and laments: "I can't remember any more text. If we had more time..." And a younger male voice asks her somewhat vehemently: "And why don't we have more time?" And then we finally see a very old, small woman lying on a sofa. She looks at the camera and says forcefully: "Because I'm dying! I'm about to eat it!"

The 3Cat platform has just released a new six-part documentary series. Women in struggle, directed and presented by journalist Txell Feixas, brings us back to the spirit of the magnificent chronicles of the former correspondent for public television in the Middle East. Now, with the calm and meticulousness that this new format allows, Feixas travels around the world to reveal stories of women who demand justice in very different areas. This Sunday, TV3 broadcast two episodes at the time of the broadcast. 30 minutes to promote the series. We met Zuhal Sherzad, an Afghan woman who fights for women's education in her country under the Taliban regime. In this case, the programme had to be recorded clandestinely. Feixas cannot obtain permission to enter Afghanistan and Sherzad uses a mobile phone to explain an educational task that can cost the lives of students and teachers. In a second episode we met Ana Rutilia Ical Choc, one of the few indigenous lawyers in Guatemala, who fights against the plundering of land and natural resources by large multinationals.Here they kill you with fear to defend the land", she says indignantly. In the initial sequence, the lawyer confronts the vigilantes of a hydroelectric plant that leaves the indigenous communities and their surroundings without water. The platform is also able to test Sophie Ndongo's task to abolish the Kafala system in Lebanon, which enslaves domestic workers. I Sister Fa's activism in Senegal through music and sexual education to end the practice of clitoral ablation. Salvador Teodora Vásquez defends a law that is already penalized by prison.

"There are so many things I shouldn't have kept to myself!" says a grandmother. "What things?" asks her grandson. And she remains silent, her gaze fixed on the horizon. She has her hands clasped on her belly and rotates her thumbs around each other. She says nothing. It is one of the conversations in the film. Sugarcane, another of the candidates for the Oscar for best documentary. Produced by National Geographic, you will find it on Disney+. It denounces the abuses of the Catholic Church in boarding schools and the missions that were established in Canada to convert indigenous people. It focuses on the Saint Joseph Mission, on the Sugarcane Indian reservation, in British Columbia. But it is only one case that reveals the patterns of infanticides that occurred in the hundreds of boarding schools that the governments of Canada and the United States promoted to solve what they called "the indigenous problem." The documentary is directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat, son of one of the survivors of Saint Joseph. The discovery of dozens of children's graves near this mission will cause a national scandal that will revive interest in the past: "The ghosts of children have awakened these days," say the media. Murders, abuses, torture, disappearances and rapes committed by priests and nuns come to light. The after-effects of these atrocities continue to this day, with an indigenous community suffering from serious alcohol problems and a high suicide rate. Sugarcane The investigation continues. Beyond the scene where the ground is being studied to discover the secretly buried bodies, there is a striking image. In a barn they find the inscriptions that the children left engraved on the wood of the wall: their names, their laments, their despair. The hypocrisy of the institutions is also revealed: the Canadian government, the police and the Church. Now they are trying to repair, with more appearance than will, all that they have ignored and despised for decades.

"I know there are countless people in the world who have experienced sexual violence. Be aware that the scenes in the film may be emotionally disturbing. Close your eyes and take a deep breath if you feel the need to. This has been helpful to me many times." This sentence opens the documentary. Daily black box, a documentary by journalist Shiori Ito, nominated for best documentary at the next Oscars. You can find it on Filmin and Movistar+. In 2015, Ito was raped by a prestigious journalist in Japan. Yamaguchi was the director of Tokyo Broadcasting System, a man very close to power, a good friend of Prime Minister Abe, who was assassinated in 2022 during a rally.

Turning a monstrous crime into a work of art. This action carefully defines In Cold Blood (1965), by Truman Capote, considered the starting pistol of one of the great journalistic and literary revolutions of the 20th century: the non-fiction novel. The New American journalism (authors such as Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Harper Lee) brought a shine to a phenomenon that has reached the present day at its best thanks to the fascination with true crime.