MOVIES ON WAR: In our interview, festival director Øystein Egge reflected on curating this year’s compelling focus on #Gaza and the #Middle East, the role of cinema in our polarised age, and the festival’s role in fostering critical conversations through it.
COLONIALISM: Chris Marker, Algeria’s independence, and one family’s exile intertwine
The 11th Bozcaada International Ecological Documentary Festival (BIFED) concluded with a selection of films addressing global ecological issues. Held over
BIFED: Ahead of its 11th edition, Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Coordinator Ethem Özgüven and Festival Director Petra Holzer on the festival’s origins, mission, and the challenges and opportunities ecological documentary filmmakers face today.
ISLAM: Samia Rahman’s book confronts the myths about Muslim women, revealing their complex realities and voices, often overshadowed by Western narratives and stereotypes.
RESISTANCE How liberation theology inspired millions of Latin American Christians to engage in 20th-century political struggles, challenging traditional Church-Power dynamics for earthly justice.
The MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival will take place from 29 July to 4 August, 2024. This year’s event
ŽIŽEK: Despite being a public intellectual for at least 30 years, there has been no previous discussion of Slavoj Žižek’s thought as multifaceted and nuanced as the one we see in the current anthology. But does Žižek recognise the revolutionary potential of desire?
HISTORY: Whatever happened to those who dreamed of space travel, wanting to be astronauts when they grew up?
SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC: Concluding on 22 June, the 34th Sunny Side of the Doc featured a noticeable uptick in presented immersive content.
Greenlandic-Danish film Twice Colonized will be the 2023 #CPH:DOX# (15 – 26 March) opening film. The film from Director #Lin
MODERNISATION: Nigerian professor Olùfèmi Táíwò examines power relations between former colonised and colonialists. All states struggle to adapt modern institutions to their own history, cultural context, and ideological climate. But can the demand for decolonizing language become absurd?