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Dieter Wieczorek
Wieczorek is a film critic and regular contributor to Modern Times Review.
  • Outliving Shakespeare Inna Sahakyan, Ruben Ghazaryan

    Outliving Shakespeare

    AGEING: In a remote Armenian retirement home, the clocks are no longer standing still.

  • Memory Vladlena Sandu

    Memory

    CONFLICT: A child’s-eye chronicle of Grozny, migration, and abuse, refracted into lyrical images that soften brutality without forgetting.

  • Ghost Elephants Werner Herzog

    Ghost Elephants

    NATURE: With Ghost Elephants, Werner Herzog creates another work within his transgressive anthropology.

  • Russians at War Anastasia Trofimova

    Russians at War

    RUSSIA: An anti-war camera slips past permits and platitudes, capturing motives, injuries, and doubts while institutions debate safety, speech, and empathy.

  • Militantropos Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi

    Militantropos

    UKRAINE: From mass graves to choral singing, images traverse Ukraine’s landscapes, questioning identity while war normalises behaviours unimaginable.

  • 9-Month Contract Keteven Vashagashvili

    9-Month Contract

    CAPITALISM: It's not just Georgia where are women trying to find a way out of social misery through surrogacy.

  • Divia Dmytro Hreshko

    Divia

    UKRAINE: Nature is rarely discussed in the current war effort, but Divia is not silent.

  • Flowers of Ukraine Adelina Borets

    Flowers of Ukraine

    UKRAINE: On the outskirts of Kyiv, a woman in her 70s demonstrates her love of freedom.

  • My Memory is Full of Ghosts Anas Zawahri

    My Memory Is Full of Ghosts

    SYRIA: Life in post-siege Homs is marked by rubble, silence, and voices determined to remember, mourn, and somehow endure.

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