The healing power of cinema
CONFLICT: Through their collective artistic project, a single mother and her four children cope with life inside a war zone.
Ukraine
Unpredictability is a very good trait
IDENTITY: A kaleidoscopic portrait of a strange and divided nation behind the scenes
Truth as a game of cat and mouse
MEDIA:The Bellingcat group is on the frontline of an urgent counter-movement against the manufacture and dissemination of lies that are destabilising traditional journalism.
What do you really know about Donbass? (Other than what you read in the news)
Loznitsa’s journey through the Donbass region is composed of a series of crazy adventures in which the grotesque and the tragic merge.
Day-to-day life amongst a pro-Russian battalion in Ukraine
Their Own Republic by Russian director Aliona Polunina caused quite a fury at this year‘s Doclisboa due to its pro-Russian stance. The documentary nonetheless offers an interesting insight into the side of the Ukrainian conflict rarely portrayed in western media.
Life at the edge of a war zone
Following a Tanzanian taxi driver in a small town in the Donetsk province in Ukraine, Long Echo offers a fresh view on a story that has all-but disappeared from the daily news bulletins of European media outlets.
Useful idiots
Sergei Loznitsa’s most recent film contrasts the sombre with the celebratory at the yearly pro-Russia gathering on Victory Day at the Soviet Memorial in Berlin.
Nordic docs looking outside the region
In quite different ways, two award-winning Nordic documentaries focus on war zones in other parts of the world outside of the Nordic region.
Day and Night in Ukraine: two short discoveries
Two of the most distinctive and notable of the premieres at Rotterdam, concerned Ukraine. One xx and the other urban to its very core.
Why are people unable to live in peace?
CONFLICT: After centuries of hatred, violence, and massacres, Ukraine is yet again at war.
ANDREI KURKOV: «With its 26 minorities, Ukraine is already cosmopolitan»
We are talking with Andrei Kurkow about the deeper national soul in Ukraine, about the significance of literature, about pluralism, and the relations between Russians and Ukrainians. Modern Times met the country’s most well-known author, Andrey Kurkov.