WBEZ's Worldview

Film contributor Milos Stehlik checks in from the Cannes Film Festival and we dive deep into NATO with a listener quiz.

Film contributor Milos Stehlik talks with Lebanese director Nadine Labaki about her new film, which opens in Chicago May 18. We also hear from documentary maker Jason Glaser. After watching his friends in western Nicaragua die from kidney failure, he put his camera aside and started a foundation to help them.

Today we talk to a group that wants to envision a world without NATO, and discuss the story of an Islamist website that has offered a $100,000 to anyone who kills the rapper Shahin Najafi.

Tuesday on Worldview: A road at the center of a "human safari" scandal in the Andaman Islands is still open, 10 years after India’s Supreme Court ordered it closed.

The other NATO: The People’s Summit

Worldview looks at food insecurity in the Middle East and gets a preview of the impending NATO and G-8 summits. We also check in with the People's Summit, which happened in Chicago this past weekend.

An Iraqi boxer talks about what it was like to box before Saddam Hussein came to power and film contributor Milos Stehlik previews the Cannes Film Festival.

During the 2011 NBA lockout, then Denver Nuggets guard J.R. Smith opted for a secure paycheck and headed to China. But Smith was hardly the first U.S. player to try a stint in the Asian nation.

Why do some national movements turn to violence, while others commit to struggle in nonviolent ways? We revisit an interview with Wendy Pearlman, who explains why so many Palestinians have chosen to return to peaceful protest.

Friday on Worldview, the West African country of Mali faces potential civil war and a humanitarian disaster.