The Film

The Puppet and the Power follows five contemporary political puppeteers as they fight to present a dissenting, irreverent voice in a global climate of limited dissent. 
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​The stories include:

• A Syrian political activist discovers the puppet as a tool to express his contempt for the Assad regime and immediately has to flee the country.
• A London-based  Iranian production company broadcasts a politically-sensitive puppet satire into Iran every week, despite it being banned.
• A Northern Irish theatre company tackles ‘the political divide and consequences of civil war’ using the puppet as a mirror.
• A Russian puppetry saga of Putin’s hunger for power and its ongoing consequences.
  
• The decline of France’s freedom of speech, as a 26-year running satirical puppetry television series is severely censored.