Belarus
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Baltic Sea Docs announces its 2022 project call
The 26th edition of Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries (BSD) will take place from 5 – 11 September 2022 in Riga, Latvia. Baltic Sea Docs have now opened its call for projects, which will go through 10 June, and is looking for applications from independent production companies from the wider #Baltic Sea# region countries, #Eastern…
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Bristol protesters and police violence
RIGHTS: With the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill making its way through parliament, Britain's right to protest and freely assemble continues to come under attack.
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Ji.hlava announces opening film, masterclasses from Oliver Stone & Vitaly Mansky, and more
The 25th annual Ji.hlava IDFF will open with When Flowers Are Not Silent by Belarusian director #Andrei Kutsila#. When Flowers Are Not Silent captures the brutal suppression of demonstrations against last year’s rigged presidential election in #Belarus. The film is included in the main international competition section Opus Bonum. Ji.hlava has also announced that The…
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IDF/DAE survey finds limited Central & Eastern European documentary representation across continent markets
At Sunny Side of the Doc on 23 June, 2021 the Institute of Documentary Film and DAE – Documentary Association of Europe presented the Movements of Central and Eastern European Projects via European Documentary Markets survey. Conducted between January and March 2021, the survey aimed to map the circulation of Central and Eastern European projects…
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B2B Doc Launch Pad Pitching sees 12 film projects pitched representing the Baltic and Black Sea region
On 4 June 2021, the Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network (B2B Doc) welcomed 25 filmmakers to Kyiv’s 50th Molodist International Film Festival for its B2B Doc Launch Pad Pitching Event. 12 projects representing #Belarus, #Ukraine, #Georgia, #Armenia, #Azerbaijan, and #Russia were pitched by their respective films teams made up of directors and producers (mostly)…
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B2B Doc hosts afternoon of documentary discussion at 50th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
Modern Times Review is currently in Kyiv for the 50th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival where The Baltic 2 Black Sea Documentary Network (B2B Doc) will hold their B2B Doc Launch Pad pitching event on Thursday, 3 June, 2021. Across its day long activities, 12 documentary film projects from #Belarus, #Ukraine, #Moldova, #Georgia, #Armenia, #Azerbaijan…
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Next generation dissent
BELARUS: An insight into the emotions and psychology of Belarusian society, as uncertainty give way to anger.
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Change Makers: important topics, varying quality
CPH:DOX: The non-competitive «Change Makers» section presented critical works provoking a wave of necessary discussions in society.
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Film community issues urgent call for immediate release of WATCH DOCS Belarus Director
After the detainment of #WATCH DOCS# #Belarus Director Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska for «financing riots», the international film community has issued a global call for her immediate release. Detained alongside other Belarusian human rights defenders (Natallia Trenina, Yuliya Semenchanka, Hanna Sakalouskaya, and Volha Shapakouskaya), The Human Rights Film Network and several film festivals have issued an open…