FIPADOC closes 2023 Industry Days with award ceremony
The programme of the fifth #FIPADOC Industry Days has come to a close with its award ceremony. Held between 23 - 26 January, on-site...
On 80th anniversary, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival pays tribute to the city’s Holocaust victims
80 years after first train bound for Auschwitz departed from #Thessaloniki, the 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival organizes a tribute in honour of the...
ECOLOGY / Matter Out of Place (dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Following waste across the planet and the endless struggle of people to gain control over it.
CONFLICT / The Investigator (dir: Viktor Portel)
A film set in the present, about the past, that points to the future...
CLIMATE / Cobalt Rush: The Future of Going Green (dir: Arnaud Zajtman, …)
The cost of going carbon neutral painted in the nightmare colours of cobalt blue.
ARMENIA / Motherland (dir: Vic Gerami)
Through an activist lens, Motherland focuses the world’s attention on the 2020 atrocities committed in Armenia's Artsakh Republic, formerly known as Nagorno – Karabakh.
NEO-FASCISM / Fascinating fascism and seductive leaders
Do many still have fascist yearnings today, or can one always blame seductive leaders? A closer dive into the 100-year-old Italian fascism and its descendants says something about the dangers we are likely to face.
FIPADOC / «Starting the year in an inspiring location by the sea is the perfect setting for launching new ideas and making new connections»
Industry Days Head of Coproduction Forum Ove Rishøj Jensen on the specifics of this year's edition, its role as the first festival of the year, and more.
ENVIRONMENT / Volker Schlöndorff – Full of hope for Africa
«It's about changing mindsets», says Volker Schlöndorff. Jokingly, the German veteran director refers to his new documentary on agronomist Tony Rinaudo's reforestation projects in Africa as propaganda.
IDFA / «You can feel the confidence and lack of compromise in the filmmaking»
Modern Times Review speaks head programmers Laura van Halsema and Joost Daamen on the breakdown of programming such a vast selection of films, how to maintain a balanced lineup, the reasoning behind its 2022 focus programmes, and more.
MOVIES ON WAR / «We are a festival that tries to make a difference and to uncover injustice»
Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Director Øystein Egge on the nature and mission of the festival, the importance of presenting a balanced programme, and, the highlight films throughout.
IDFA / New Tech – Manufacturing the Truth?
Filmmakers and artists weigh in on old and new technologies in documentary film and their ethical implications.
UKRAINE / Festival Report: Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 2022
From Kyiv, Modern Times Review reports from the 2022 Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival.
DOCLISBOA / Marked By Slowness
This year’s edition of the Portuguese documentary film festival once again gave emerging film professionals from all over Europe the opportunity to showcase their short films in the section Green Years.
UKRAINE / The road to war
Two films screening at Norway's Movies on War Film Festival look at the lead-up to the February 24th Russian invasion of Ukraine.