France Archives

The curse of colonial consumption

Carmen Gray / March 31, 2022

PROSTITUTION: How the Nigerian mafia is able to reach far into Europe to keep trafficked women in prostitution.

Arndt Fehl, Chiara Sambuchi, colonialism, coronavirus, CPH:DOX, Dokufest, drug trade, Europe, France, Italy, Mafia, nigeria, organised crime, prostitution, sex trade, The Deal, Visioni dal Mondo

«All these moments we have missed for two years are essential for all of us»

Steve Rickinson / March 10, 2022

Cinéma du réel: Ahead of the 44th edition, Modern Times Review spoke with Artistic Director, Catherine Bizern on this year’s physical festival, its place within the wider festival landscape, and more.

Catherine Bizern, Cinéma du réel, France, Jean-Luc Godard, paris

«… Who steals, rapes, plunders, tortures and kills»

Ketil Fred Hansen / March 8, 2022

FRANCE: After a number of «not a day without» statements, the French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour’s conclusion is that the country is about to be taken over by Muslims and feminists.

Africa, Algeria, Balzac, Camus, Chechnya, Emmanuel Macron, far-right, feminists, France, gender, Houellebecq, immigration, Kosovo, Montaigne, Muslims, Napoleon, polygamy, Sarkozy, Sartre, Sibeth Ndiaye, sustainability, Tocqueville

A cruel game by Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, exposed

Melita Zajc / February 20, 2022

HISTORY: Nina Gladitz’s film about Roma and Sinti survivors of Shoah has been hidden in the WDR archive since 1982. Reactions to her book show we live in times when searching for the truth and giving voice to the weakest in societysociety causes suspicion, not respect. But simply accepting that such are the times might be the real problem.

arte, Auschwitz, Béla Balázs, Dieter Hinrichs, fascism, France, Germany, Helmut Kindler, History, Hitler, Johathan Rosenbaum, Josef Reinhard, Julian Assange, Kitzbuhel, Leni Riefenstahl, National Socialist, Nazi, Nina Gladitz, Piotr Uklanski, Poland, Roma, Salzburg, Sinti, Social media, Spain, Switzerland, USA, WDR, Willy Zielke

Invisible woman

Lauren Wissot / February 19, 2022

MIGRANTS: Philip Scheffner’s foray into fiction varies the game of visible and invisible until dreams and reality fuse.

Algeria, Berlinale, Caroline Kirberg, Doclisboa, Europe, France, IDFA, Merle Kröger, migrants, Philip Scheffner, Rhim Ibrir, trauma, Visions du réel

Our Memory Belongs To Us, a film by Rami Farah

The Syrian intelligentsia observe the destruction of their homeland

Aliide Naylor / December 4, 2021

SYRIA: How does one survive in times of war? By forgetting, or by remembering…?

conflict, France, George Orwell, IDFA, Jordan, Kofi Annan, Our Memory Belongs To Us, Rami Farah, Rwanda, saudi arabia, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Spain, Syria, UN, USA, Yadan Draji

A dream becomes a nightmare

Nick Holdsworth / November 12, 2021

LABOUR: On the front lines of the visible – and invisible – global platform economy.

algorithm, amazon, Augmented Intelligence, capitalism, China, copenhagen, CPH:DOX, Deliveroo, Doc NYC, Dokufest, Florida, France, gig economy, Hot Docs, IDFA, Ina Fichman, Ji.hlava IDFF, labour, Luc Martin-Gousset, Lyft, Meta, nigeria, RIDM, Shannon Walsh, Social media, The Gig Is Up, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Uber, USA

The three ecologies

Truls Lie / September 30, 2021

CLIMATE: What connects the city of Siracusa with the UN and a French philosopher?

activism, Andrea Culková, Arctic, art, Athens, China, climate, climate crisis, CO2, donald trump, Europe, Extinction Rebellion, Félix Guattari, film, France, global warming, Gulf Stream, IPCC, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Marxist, mass media, methane, music, Plato, Sicily, Siracusa, Toni

France's Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa

French warriors and Norwegian soldiers in the Sahel

Ketil Fred Hansen / September 29, 2021

MALI: If anyone in the Norwegian government would have read this book, they would never have sent soldiers to the French military force in Mali.

chad, diplomacy, France, Gaddafi, Macron, Mali, Mauritania, MINUMSMA, Niger, Sahel

In the billowing night

Tomas Krause / August 8, 2021

COLONIALISM: The French colonial crimes in Réunion island are slowly brought to light.

colonialism, Creole, Doclisboa, Erika Etangsalé, FIDMarseille, France, IDFA, In the Billowing Night, Jonathan Rubin, Madagascar, Migration, nationalism, racial, racism, Réunion, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

The future place for human beings: a zoological garden

Dieter Wieczorek / May 18, 2021

CONTROL: The Léa Rogliano and Pierre Hujoel Documentary What the Eye Doesn’t See is an inspiring work for extensive reflections.

ai, control, depression, epidemic, Eric Schmidt, France, geopolitics, Google, Gunther Anders, Léa Rogliano, media, Pierre Hujoel, propaganda, suicide, technology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, voyeurism, What the Eye Doesn’t See, Wuhan

Leaving the old behind – the cinema of Med Hondo, rediscovered

Melita Zajc / April 16, 2021

CINEMA: A new three-book collection aims to draw attention to the cinematic legacy of Med Hondo.

Archive Books, ARSENEL, Black Wave, Cannes, cinema, Czechoslovakia, film language, France, Hausa, Mauritania, Med Hondo, Migrant, New Wave, Pasqua Law, racism, transmedia