Movies and TvShows featuring "power-relations" theme.

In a future where Earth's resources are depleted, a paraplegic Marine is sent to the moon Pandora to gather information about the indigenous Na'Vi. As he learns about their culture and falls in love with a Na'Vi woman, he must choose between loyalty to his own kind and defending the world he now calls home.

In 'Cypher,' a man with a new identity becomes embroiled in a high-security corporate espionage operation. As he delves deeper into this mysterious world, he begins to question his own reality and uncover a shocking conspiracy. Will he be able to untangle the web of deceit and discover the truth?

In a dystopian society, a man is falsely accused of a crime he knows nothing about. He goes through a surreal trial where he encounters bizarre characters and experiences a waking nightmare. As the trial progresses, the man's guilt complex intensifies and he begins to question his own sanity. The trial becomes a reflection of the oppressive power relations and ambiguity of the judicial system.

Three young brothers, Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum, learn martial arts from their grandfather and use their skills to rescue him when he is kidnapped by criminals.

Agora is set in the 4th century AD, during a time of religious and cultural decline in the Roman Empire. It follows the story of Hypatia, a philosopher and astronomer in Alexandria, as she faces persecution for her intellectual pursuits and clashes with the rising tide of Christian fundamentalism. The film explores themes of religious fervor, intolerance, and the clash between reason and faith.

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the breakthrough work of the late sociologist Erving Goffman, whose 1959 book The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life prefigured the growing field of performance studies. Jhally applies Goffman's analysis of the body in print advertising to hundreds of print ads today, uncovering an astonishing pattern of regressive and destructive gender codes. By looking beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that tend to focus on either biology or objectification, The Codes of Gender offers important insights into the social construction of masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.

Sometimes, the truth is overridden by self-interest.

Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they exchange with. Events unfold from their point of view through real conversations collected on the web.

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of “truth” and “history”.

Following the Van Rijn Commission's investigation, Coen Verbraak speaks with editors and presenters about the work culture at the public broadcaster.

It's your last day in the office, and you have company.

Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a pandemic year which also saw people’s resistance movements in many parts of the world, the work pinpoints the uncanny affinities between gaming and warfare strategies. They have mutually informed the infrastructure of both worlds since time immemorial when diplomatic conflicts played out on the battlefield of the 64 squares of a chess board to flight simulation technologies which were adapted to shape gaming experiences as we know it now. When the conflict is between the state and its people, she speculates that gaming strategies empower civilians in resistance movements to counter imperialism through its own operative logic. But once we upload our consciousness, are we able to return to the sensibilities and political motivation that inspired the revolution to begin with?