State (T)error Season
The call for entries has closed on 31st may.
State (T)error was first organized in 2005 as an out-of-competition section at Milano Film Festival. It tells and shows authentic stories, documentaries depicting a complex pattern of the system of powers and the economic and political interests that have the control over it. They show the strategies of all the subjects involved in the system (governments, multinationals, media); wars, violence, speculation, injustice, distortion of information, to control the citizens and increase the wealth.
What we are looking for
These stories we are looking for expose the complicity of the media with the system of powers, the manipulation of public opinion and information.
They expose the lie of a "war on terror" that avails itself of terror strategies against civilians, causing millions of people to die or be displaced, only to control resources and areas of strategic importance.
These documentaries show the policies of multinational companies, that have now got to rule the world, and the neocolonial system they have created, in complicity with many governments: the race for the privatization of natural resources, such as water and energy, that belong to everyone; the management of the most important industrial branches (the war, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and building industries), only acting in their own interest.
The unrestrained consumerism that creates addiction, generated and manipulated by incessant advertising, and ultimately the inability of consumers to overcome or fight against this mechanism.
These documentaries report the accounts of immigrants, their dramatic travels, life in their countries of origin and of adoption; they report how they fear us, and how we fear them.
They report of work deaths, brought about by the lack of basic safety conditions and tolerated with such indifference on the part of people responsible; they report of the militarization of cities (in the name of "safety" that justifies everything), of nuclear power stations, of the compulsory tax destined for military spend, of soldiers armed for peace missions, of religious and political fundamentalism, of arms trafficking and of violence against women.
But we are also looking for encouraging stories of groups and peoples who have successfully fought oppression and injustices.
For the sixth edition of State (T)error we are looking for these stories, and for many more.
