The absurdity of humanity
HISTORY: A new doc based on the much-heralded book EUROPEANA attempts to hold true to its impassive recounting of the history of the 20th century.
Transformed through film
Ji.hlava: Inspiration Forum, a unique experience uncommon for most film festivals, brings scientists, politicians, artists, social reformers, and journalists together with documentary filmmakers and attending public to discuss complex problems of today’s world.
Revising the toxic playbook
ABUSE: The daily lives of three women of different backgrounds struggling to break free from violent relationships
DokLeipzig to feature contemporary documentaries from Iran
DokLeipzig: A look into the extended programme of Iranian documentary featured at DokLeipzig 2019.
«I expect the best documentaries to have the same impact as great reads»
Ji.hlava: Modern Times Review speaks with Ji.hlava’s Programme Director, Petr Kubica.
Excavating one’s house against oblivion
TRAUMA: Living with an identity disorder as a consequence of Colombia’s lengthy armed conflict, an ex guerilla soldier must face a past he is desperate to forget.
Into the Flames
CLIMATE: By making us witnesses to our consumption of the Earth, Anthropocene – the Human Epoch is a planetary portrait that makes room for nuanced irony and wonder, even while urging moral outcry.
Ghandi’s method
PHILOSOPHY: Can traditions of brotherhood, friendship, and solidarity still be established amongst today’s majorities?
The burns of corruption
VENICE: Was The Collective the best documentary of the Venice Film Festival?
Dingseveldet – The gadgets in the online stores
MULTIPLICITY: Can a gadget materialism reconstruct a collective societal thought?
Big little secrets
CONTROL: In his memoir, Edward Snowden reveals how he helped build the mass surveillance system and what his motivations were to bring it down
On the tragic mafia
VENICE: The mafia and corruption have been the topics of several films at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, but why are so many people attracted to power, even if it is so notoriously corrupting?