The age of lies
JOURNALISM: A spiralling world of truth and disinformation in Modi’s India.
India
A treacherous saviour
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s staging of himself has been successful enough to keep him at the helm for years. But the role models for his ruling BJP party were inspired by German and Italian fascism.
A sign of hope
CLIMATE: Two MakeDox-screening films, ‘All That Breathes’ and ‘Invisible Demons’, look at pollution in one of the world’s preeminent megacities, New Delhi – one from above, one from below.
About early female travelers and their travelogues
INTERVIEW: An interview with Courtney Stephens, the director of the film essay Terra Femme, about her work with archival films, female gaze and early amateur travelogues.
16 Projects Selected for 2022 FIFDH Impact Days Workshop
Following its call for projects, #FIFDH Impact Days we have received more than 110 documentary projects from around the world.
Feminine mystique: Rewriting the female narrative in Terra Femme and Sava
This year’s 20th #DokuFest offered over 200 films from all around the world across its 19 sections. These sections consisted
«We’re born storytellers»
CANNES DOCS: International Film Initiative of Bangladesh President Samia Zaman speaks with Modern Times Review on documentary from Bangladesh and the 2021 Cannes Docs – Marché du Film South Asia Showcase.
India’s voices of the voiceless
JOURNALISM: In a saturated media landscape dominated by men, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women redefines what it means to be powerful.
On the extraordinary achievements of an ordinary man
LANGUAGE: Through one man’s extensive travels and research over a 25-year span, a comparative study of 4 Indian languages is created.
The fireball at the end of the world
COSMOS: In his tireless search for uncanny strangeness, Herzog encounters different types of meteorite-hunters who look for a lived connection with the larger cosmos – and explores the deeper causes of our apocalyptic thrills.
High priests of climate denialism
ENVIRONMENT: A masterful confrontation with the deceptions and self-deceptions of central climate deniers – and the sinister consequences of their successful campaigns.