News outlets in the US and around the world extensively cover the second administration of  Donald Trump . Amid this flood of information on current events, film directors Demid Sheronkin and Can Dündar take a step back to assess the state of free speech and democracy in the US with their new DW documentary, "Democracy Under Attack: Can Dündar and Trump's America," which premiered on April 14 at the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin . Dündar, a Turkish journalist and writer now living in exile in Berlin, pointed out at the film's premiere that as they developed the project, they faced the challenge of finding an angle that could withstand Trump's turbocharged news cycle. "We decided to focus on the situation of the academics, as a kind of microcosm reflecting the attacks on democracy," he explained.…