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    Change Makers: important topics, varying quality

    Commentary Jan Kinzl -
    CPH:DOX: The non-competitive «Change Makers» section presented critical works provoking a wave of necessary discussions in society.
    SURVEILLANCE: All Light, Everywhere (dir: Theo Anthony) In the new golden age of surveillance, the blind spots are all around us.
    Nick Holdsworth -
    JOURNALISM: Writing With Fire (dir: Sushmit Ghosh, …) In a saturated media landscape dominated by men, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women redefines what it means to be powerful.
    Carmen Gray -
    CONFLICT: Soldiers (dir: Willem Konrad, …) As Germany switches its military apparatus more akin to the USA, it is those without opportunity and means frequently finding themselves on the frontlines.
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    CONTROL: Heimatkunde - The Lasting Formation (dir: Christian Bäucker) Years after its fall, the remains of the GDR socialist education are pasted over, hidden, and forgotten.
    Carmen Gray -
    CONFLICT: Bad Nazi. Good Nazi (dir: Chanoch Ze'evi) The story of the Nazi officer responsible for saving Jews and Poles alike elicits a passionate debate and reflection in his German hometown
    Aleksandra Biernacka -
    ART: The Art of Inconsequentiality (dir: Jakob Brossmann, …) For the sake of our planet, how can society stimulate a counter narrative to hyper productivity?
    Melita Zajc -
    MIGRANTS: Arada (dir: Jonas Schaffter) Three Swiss deportees of Turkish descent must find their way in a land that is no longer home.
    Sevara Pan -
    MIGRANTS: The Last Shelter (dir: Ousmane Samassekou) The CPH:DOX winning documentary whispers migrant dreams and nightmares on the edge of the Sahara.
    Carmen Gray -
    AGEING: It Is Not Over Yet (dir: Louise Detlefsen) Inspired by the methods of Florence Nightingale, nurse May Bjerre Eiby looks to shift the way people with dementia are treated in the Danish healthcare system.
    Melita Zajc -
    FEMINISM: As I Want (dir: Samaher Alqadi) Following a string of sexual assaults, As I Want documents a burgeoning women’s rebellion.
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    Industry news

    FIPADOC returns to cinemas with special a Spring session
    DAFilms to host Roberto Minervini retrospective with live chat
    Thessaloniki Documentary Festival presents full Greek selections for 23rd festival
    DocAviv announces Israeli titles for 23rd festival edition, in cinemas and online
    CPH:DOX 2021: The complete winners
    Industry news Modern Times Review -
    The winners of CPH:DOX 2021 six international competitions at CPH:DOX have announced with the Dox:Award going to Ousmane Samassekou's The Last Shelter. Besides the main...
    DOK.fest München announces full programme for 2021 @home edition
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    The second edition of the all online DOK.fest München @home has just announced its full programme. From 5 to 23 May, 131 films representing...
    DocsBarcelona announces full 2021 programme
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    The 2021 edition of #DocBarcelona takes place from 18 to 30 May in a hybrid format. Combining online screenings via Filmin and physical screenings...
    Dok.fest München announces guest country & homage retrospective
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    Dok.fest München is set to take place online from 05 to 23 May. With its complete programme announcing very soon, the Munich based documentary...
    Visions du Réel 2021: The complete winners
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    The Grand Jury Prize of Visions du Réel 2021 went to the American-Ethiopian-Qatari co-production Faya Dayi by Jessica Beshir. In addition, the film also...
    Movies that Matter 2021: The complete winners
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    The Netherlands' Movies that Matter Festival has just announced its winners. The international film festival on #human rights# held 30 national and international premieres...
    Doclisboa returns to close its 18th edition with physical screenings
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    After an extensive journey of readjustment, #doclisboa finally returns returns to Lisbon's Culturgest with the last screenings of its 18th edition. From 5 to 10...
    The Calvert Journal announces submission call for second film festival
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    The Calvert Journal Film Festival has announced the opening of its call for submissions for its second edition. Filmmakers from across the New East...

    Editorial

    EDITORIAL: The new anarchists Can a film director combine both freedom and solidarity?
    Truls Lie -
    interview
    AFRICAN FILM: Youth, migration, and documentary decolonisation Don Edkins and Tiny Mugwe discuss the Generation Africa project.
    Lauren Wissot -
    interview
    DOK.FEST MüNCHEN: «Returning directly to the past has no future» Deputy Festival Director Artistic Director Adele Kohout and Programme Selection member Monika Haas on the festival's 36th edition.
    Steve Rickinson -
    interview
    VISIONS DU RéEL: «The festival still is a really big, powerful machine if you do it the right way» Artistic Director Emilie Bujès speaks with Modern Times Review about the festival's 52nd edition.
    Steve Rickinson -
    interview
    INTERVIEW: «We are simply looking for good films» Andrea Prenghyová, Project Director of dok.incubator, speaks with Modern Times Review on the 2021 workshop.
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    comments/editorials

    DOK.REVUE: Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened
    Olaf Moller -
    Olaf Möller remembers Karel Vachek, who died in December 2020 at the age of 80
    DOK.REVUE: Shooting about Kundera
    Miloslav Smidmajer -
    Documentarian Miloslav Šmídmajer describes the process of making a documentary about Milan Kundera with the working title Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance.

    Streaming (where available)

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    SOCIETY: The Mole Agent (dir: Maite Alberdi)
    Maite Alberdi's film cleverly touches on a delicate theme and invites us with compassion and tenderness to reflect on isolation, the rigours of patriarchal society, and the organisation of work and family.
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    CONTROL: Her Mothers (dir: Asia Dér, …)
    In increasingly authoritarian Hungary, two women face several hardships in their adoption of a young Roma child.
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    JOURNALISM: Slow News (dir: Alberto Puliafito)
    When democracy bases start to vanish.
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    SOCIETY: Woman (dir: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, …)
    Woman is the sequel to Yann Arthus-Bertrand's panoramic portrait of humanity, this time focusing on the female part of the world's population.

    book reviews

    GENRE: The Process Genre. Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor (auth: Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky) In a deliciously written book, Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky delineates, dissects, and names a visual genre we are all familiar with but have not yet learned to appreciate its full potential and implications.
    Nina Trige Andersen -
    GENDER: Good Wife, Wise Mother (auth: Anne-Stine Johnsbråten) An exclusive insight into the different roles Japanese women play in society.
    Patricia Sequeira Brás -
    ART: Conflictual Aesthetics: Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere (auth: Oliver Marchart) Though many of today's patrons use art as a giant advertising pillar, what can art still do when politicians lie?
    Mikkel Bolt -
    MEDIA: The Media Manifesto (auth: Justin Schlosberg, …) Profiling, information control, behavior-regulating nudges and the sale of personal data should prove to be the reality, rather than the realisation of the internet as a publicist network.
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    LATE MODERNITY: The Uncontrollability of the World (auth: Hartmut Rosa) People today are gaining more and more control over their surroundings – but are losing touch with the world. Where is the limit for measurements, quality assurances, quantifications and bureaucratic routines?
    Anders Dunker -
    COVID-19: Everything Must Change!: The World after Covid-19 (auth: Renata Avila, …) A gathering of influential voices from around the world to weigh in on the progressive possibilities in the wake of COVID-19.
    Melita Zajc -
    DOK.REVUE: Women on Women (auth: Barbora Baronová) A reflection on women documentarians inspired by Barbora Baronová’s book Women on Women.
    Martin Srajer -
    SOCIAL CHANGE: Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change (auth: Caty Borum Chattoo) Essential reading for all who want to better understand what makes our time the documentary golden age
    Melita Zajc -

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