and british the ram assist edmund deval is also at the be an alley and brings his remarkable library of exile and his passion for porcelain to venice. but first we had to southern germany where the doc fest munich kicked off on wednesday and that's an international film festival devoted entirely to documentaries and one hundred fifty nine films for over fifty countries it's also one of the biggest of its kind in europe well a big theme this year is the tenuous relationship we have with our planet and so we've picked out a few highlights. while in the raven tells the story of a small town dealing with the promise of industrial boom and the need to protect the environment. people take a decision on where they have no spiritual connection to no aggression whatsoever in peace a community. peace we'll see. for us humans turn to

dr heath. tankers only pushed will be coming. what can you do. push exposes the massive financial players who turn affordable housing markets into trying to pull commodities the documentary focuses on the work of human rights lawyer lanny far higher. that must've been a time when somehow you know if you had to come to the city you had a job in the city you could live in the city not create wealth naturally just taking wealth. for somebody like they had a maxed out. car for a job but the big advantages. no regulation of deregulation.

there's a lot of drawing out there because nobody was looking. now we are talking. and i thrilling. high seas adventure when conservationists go off to one of the world's most notorious poaching vessels chasing. this is a bob barker you are fishing illegally. possible character. some harrowing images there and my colleague melissa holroyd has joined me in the studio welcome melissa you've come to talk to us about chasing thunder first of all it looks like a real cliffhanger but what exactly is going on it's a terribly exciting film it's a real eco thriller if we're allowed to call it that it's directed by mark benjamin and mach eleven it's making its german debut at the munich documentary festival the

crew are on the lookout for six poaching vessels and they come across the most notorious of the poaching vessels the fonda they have been illegally who have been illegally fishing for more than a decade the poachers of course cause untold damage in the oceans around the world the film ends in spectacular fashion and i think i'm allowed to say this because it's in the trailer when it's working out in us without swelling with the captain sinking his own ship unbelievable stuff that we saw there not the sea shepherds are the ones doing the chasing and some say that they've got a bit of an infamous reputation they do well they have their origins in green pace and then they went their separate ways from greenpeace because they thought that greenpeace for a little bit too soft little bit too easy on their tactics so that really tells us something about tough but sort of group they are ok. and you were going to tell me about the communication i think on the all yeah i mean one one of the ways the

documentary builds tension is that it focuses on the communication between the two captains of the two sea shepherd vessels. and between the captain of the thunder so it really helps in between those and that's also where a lot of the human lies in the documentary because this banish speaking captain is just so extraneous ahead of us maverick. yes more than a maverick you really do forget forget that you're actually watching a documentary film now let's let's have a quick look at you brought us the second example push because this problem of portable housing is a problem that we're definitely seeing everywhere yeah affordable housing is a global problem in cities around the world they're all having the same problem and push examines that it's ultimately a very depressing situation. is she stands as a beacon of hope in this story she said a straight talking and tireless figure for the past three years she's been the u.n.

special reportorial on adequate housing needy and yeah that's right yes she's it's directed by award winning swedish director frederick get and who's also done a lot of work on global medicine in justice he made but nona's and vs cause they both went down very well get and follows it for over a year on the one hand the film exposes this desperate situation but on the other hand it's a really terrific call to action see if we can get just quickly to the third one which speaks to my heart because the will of the raven was of course made in canada was yeah the film is set on canada's rough west coast it's an observational documentary you really get a sense of this observational documentary in terms of how the documentary ends up playing out it chronicles the profound relationship between the first nation peoples relationship between the environment and especially with whales and how they cope then when the big investors come to town the whale and the raven of course that made by german director i believe yeah maybe i need to use this is her

second feature length length film it's visually spectacular as in the picture is also behind the camera and the shots are just absolutely incredible unbelievably great visuals and very provocative stuff the doc fest nick on until may nineteenth was the whole right thank you very much for bringing us those insights. well speaking of provocative on saturday the fifty eight venice the a knowledge kicks off and this year organizers say the event will feature works that address a war in turmoil and that artists have been specifically encouraged to raise a lot of questions he's a pickle for. the fifty eighth edition of the venice b.n. olives called may you live in interesting times that's intended more as a message to visitors than as an all encompassing model for the spectacular art festival featuring works from ninety nations much of it displayed in competing national prevail humans. one of the works on display is

a machine presented by chinese artist soon young and panu tries in vain to clean up a red liquid. artists live in the same world we did they read this days they respond to things but there are new themes in this being now so yes i think art. is social but in a different way the. jurors of our history are anthropology. and approach is how we experience the world. the work that has attracted most attention though is this ship rank it was transported to venice by sea the fishing vessel sank off the libyan coast in two thousand and fifteen with more than one thousand refugees on board if you survived. being. swiss artist christophe blowhole has installed it for the duration of the be an

olive in a prominent position in the venice harbor. the job of artists is to raise questions about things and to raise questions about how we look at things about the categories we used to order our world. and then the. the workers have to us to. develop a vestige. once again there's plenty food for thought at the venice biennale. also making an appearance at this year's the analogy is britain's edmund de vos world famous ceramicist and a bestselling author and it's perhaps only fitting that he'll have to exhibitions in venice one expanding on his exploration of literature and exile and the other featuring his trademark porcelain vessels a material the virtues of which he simply can't extol enough as we learned on

a visit to his studio. has shaped edwin devolves life it started when he made his first points at the age of just five his fascination for the white earth continues to grow half a century later. who wouldn't adore. worships porcelain as the perfect material not only because it's a deceptively pure substance solid yet translucent hard and fragile but also because it was a desirable commodity and traveled the globe connecting people you have to start looking for opportunities to rebuild empathy. you know and my job is my my job which is why i come to work you know to make things which are i hope beautiful and builds connections between things we've lost and things that we can

build that's that's why that's why i get up in the morning with. visitors to devolve to london studio are invited to touch the way that the artist has worked with for twenty five years. it's not just about the vessels but also about the spaces between and around. behind me i mean if you see see a group of. vessels or which of course are just empty spaces they are. in a line that sounds to me it's like work. so i'm making poetry pop. divans other great passion is reading and writing books. in the hair with amber eyes he told the story of his jewish family his grandparents fled from the nazis to england now deval considers britain's push to leave the e.u.

to be nationalistic and a disgrace. for two thousand years you know we have depended from we've depended on people moving across borders writing in different languages bringing with them cultures which aren't native to to to what we experience and then that we enjoy these and reinvigorate this for the venice be an art here's created a monument to the world's exiles deval has placed his library of exiles in venice is former jewish ghetto two thousand books written by exiles on display in a reading room coated in porcelain it pays tribute to those who culturally enriched the new homes including devours own. and it's intended also to be a place of reflection and exchange so you need to bring

a lot of time with you know if you're heading to venice will be a novel run until november so we'll have lots more from venice in the coming weeks and months and of course on the website i thought our time is coming to an end all the best for us here in berlin. who doesn't know.

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