In Algeria, in 1991 the fundamentalist party won the elections. The victory frightened the leadership of the country in the hands of the secular and military elite.

The wounds of the survivors are indelible and are provoking another kind of tensions. It is the topic of the film by Les bienheureux - The Blessed by the Algerian director Sofia Djama presented at the 74th Venice Film Festival.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has an extreme difference: a paradise of beauty and wealth in opposite a hell of bad politics and outrageous external interventions.

"Growing in Congo because of God's will mean growing in paradise", says a character from the documentary This is Congo by director Daniel McCabe, presented at the 74th Venice Film Festival.

It narrates the civil war in the eastern Congo, lead by the armed group M23, supported by the two usual adversaries, Rwanda and Uganda.

The escalation of global temperatures, in 2004 the tsunami in Asia, the Kursk submarine tragedy, the September 11 attack on the twin towers, the Brexit and the not easy divination that the forty-fourth President of the United States would have been black. These are some of Baba Vanga's divinations. Bulgarian, Baba Vanga, an eccentric prescient, has an increasing fame all over the world, many newspapers cover her.

Aleksandra Niemczyk, a young filmmaker student with maestro Béla Tarr in Sarajevo, talks about the character with great elegance in the film Baba Vanga presented at the 53rd Pesaro International Film Festival.