Life in the Delta
COMMUNISM: The extensive history of Bucharest’s Văcăreşti Nature Park has endured many iterations, from monastery to prison to the world’s largest urban Delta.
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«I’m looking for stories and characters that make the viewer feel lucky to have chosen them»
TIFF: Ahead of the 19th Transilvania International Film Festival, which occurs 31 July – 9 August 2020, Modern Times Review spoke with both Artistic Director Mihai Chirilov and What’s Up, Doc? section programmer Ana Maria Sandu.
Dystopia ends when, Putin?
RUSSIA: Online video as a contemporary form of political expression and a plea against censorship in Russia.
Ordinary people. Ordinary activities
COMMUNISM: The banality of evil in communist-era Poland explored through archive footage of secret police audio and film recordings.
The agonising campaign for truth
CONTROL: A chilling glimpse into the murderous reality of China’s suppression of meditation movement Falun Gong.
The tentacles of totalitarianism
JUSTICE: Standing up to a brutal regime, an Uzbek woman never breaks hope in fighting for family justice.
Children in the free
SOCIETY: On the outskirts of Bucharest, a family lives in harmony with nature until forced to adapt to big city life.
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.
The houses we were, the cities we are
Two important but very different documentaries from 2018 showcase the power of the short film form.
The Cuban veteran for whom the Revolution lives on
As his country slowly moves past its communist decades, a Cuban veteran is stuck in the past.
A hilarious examination of the human condition
An intimate portrait of a sarcastic elderly Palestinian woman’s life, relationships, regrets and bitterness enlightened by flashes of dark humour.
The ‘high times’ of the Brezhnev years
USSR: Vivid memories of home-made psychedelic drugs and Soviet revolutionary times are brought to life in Soviet Hippies.