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Leters From the Silenced Country Andrei Kutsila

Letters from the Silenced Country

Nick Holdsworth / September 17, 2026

BELARUS: A sombre and shocking glimpse inside the horror that opponents of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko experience.

Andrei Kutsila, Belarus, Filmotor, Germany, Letters from the Silenced Country, Lithuania, Poland

Special Operation

Nick Holdsworth / July 25, 2025

UKRAINE: Unfiltered surveillance of wartime routine builds toward an unseen horror.

Belarus, Berlinale, Chernobyl, Dokufest, F4F4F4;, Kinoton Group, Kyiv, moscow, Oleksiy Radynski, SBU, Special Operation, Studija Kinema, Ukraine

The Guest

Dieter Wieczorek / January 4, 2025

EUROPE: The frontier between Belarus and Poland is a death camp.

Al Jazeera Documentary, Belarus, Biografilm, Europe, European Union, human rights, IDFA, migrants, One World Romania, One World SK, Plesnar & Krauss Films, refugees, Russia, The Guest, Zuzanna Solakiewicz, Zvika Gregory Portnoy

CPH:DOX opens «CHANGE» call for projects

Modern Times Review / July 12, 2024

CPH:DOX, EAVE, and IMS have announced a call for submissions from documentary filmmakers in #Armenia, #Azerbaijan, #Belarus, #Georgia, #Moldova, and

armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, CPH:DOX, CPH:FORUM, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine

Navigating censorship and security in Belarusian film with VODBLISK

Modern Times Review / May 8, 2024

Since its launch in March 2023, VODBLISK has become a crucial platform for independent Belarusian cinema. Led by #Volia Chajkouskaya#,

Belarus, BelarusFilm, censorship, CPH:DOX, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival, VODBLISK, Volia Chajkouskaya

DOX:EXCHANGE: documenting change in restrictive environments

Karen Cirillo / May 5, 2024

Making documentary films and nurturing an ecosystem is not easy for most filmmakers, but in #Belarus and #Georgia, filmmakers encounter

Belarus, censorship, CinéDOC and, CinéDOC-Tbilisi, CPH:DOX, Democracy, DOCA, DOX:EXCHANGE, Georgia, new democracy fund, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival, tallinn black nights

A critical voice from Belarus

Melita Zajc / April 25, 2024

BELARUS: A satirical journey through Belarus’ tumultuous history from 2020 protests to the Ukraine war, blending humour with stark realities.

ai, Alexander Lukashenko, Andrei Kashperski, Belarus, Eastern Europe, goEast), Processes, propaganda, Russia, satire, secret service, Sergey Kuryokhin, Ukraine, USSR

Report: B2B Doc Documentary Industry Days 2023

Steve Rickinson / September 11, 2023

B2B Doc: Modern Times Review looks back at the week of panels and presentations that made up the 2023 B2B Doc Documentary Industry Days programme.

armenia, Azerbaijan, B2B Doc, Belarus, Berlinale, Dmytro Hreshenko, Dmytro Hreshko, Georgia, Godfrey Reggio, goEast, IDFA, Mariupol, Moldova, Odesa International Film Festival, Pitch the Doc, Stefan Borg, Stephane Siohan, Ukraine, WATCH DOCS

B2B Doc partners with Odesa IFF for 2023 Documentary Industry Days programme

Modern Times Review / July 13, 2023

B2B Doc, Odesa IFF, and Gdynia Film Center join forces to bring you the Documentary Industry Days of Odesa IFF

armenia, Azerbaijan, B2B Doc, Belarus, Gdynia, Gdynia Film Center, Georgia, Moldova, Odesa IFF, Poland, Ukraine

AFRICA: Russia has been very committed to the principle of non-interference and allowed authoritarian regimes to conduct their own politics without setting any political demands for their trade or aid. But they forgave debts to several African countries while signing several military-technical agreements.

Africa, Arab Spring, Belarus, chad, Cold War, Darfur, Eritrea, Ethiopia, ethnic cleansing, Libya, Mali, Middle East, NATO, Prigozhin, Russia, Security Council, Soviet Union, Sudan, Ukraine, USA, Wagner group, Western Europe

Motherland Alexander Mihalkovich, Hanna Badziaka

Raised by the rifle

Carmen Gray / March 17, 2023

BELARUS:An insight into the militarisation of Belarusian society.

Alexander Lukashenko, Alexander Mihalkovich, Alyaksandr Korzhych, Anita Norfolk, Ashley Smith, Belarus, CPH:DOX, Doclisboa, Dokufest, FIFDH, goEast, Hanna Badziaka, HUMAN idff Oslo, IDFA, Krakow Film Festival, Lucky Dogs, Mario Adamson, militarisation, military, Motherland, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Soviet, Ukraine, Victory Day, WATCH DOCS

«We see it as our mission to bring people together and create a conversation»

Steve Rickinson / March 15, 2023

CPH:DOX: Head of Industry & Training Tereza Simikova discusses the 2023 CPH:FORUM.

armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, CPH:DOX, CPH:FORUM, Documentary Campus, Europe, Georgia, Moldova, Nagorno Karabakh, pandemic, Russia, Ukraine, war