Thematic sections
When Injustice Is the System
The state is supposed to protect its citizens – but what happens when its own institutions surveil them, turn them into commodities or fail to defend them? From the machinery of the Stasi and the human trade conducted by the communist state of Romania to child trafficking on a European scale and the disappearance of an urban forest before the authorities’ eyes, these films reveal how systemic abuse and neglect do not affect everyone equally. Sometimes injustice is not a flaw in the system, but the very way it functions.
