DOK.fest München
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Bikini-clad pluralism
ISRAEL: A different kind of coexistence is happening on a beach, a bit off the beaten track in secular and pluralistic Tel Aviv.
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Rebel with a lost cause
JUSTICE: For almost fifty years, Lea Tsemel has been at the forefront of the fight for justice and compassion for those lost and indefensible in society’s eye.
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Woodstock remake: looking back after 50 years
CULTURE: The American broadcaster PBS has launched a new documentary about one of the key events in American modern history: Woodstock.
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«Documentaries fill people’s need for featured reality»
DOK.fest München: MTR talks with the programmers at the DOK.fest München’s International Programme, Julia Teichmann and Monika Haas.
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Afghan air guitar and expat metal: a scene is created in RocKabul
CULTURE: A documentary tells the story of the rise of the first Afghan metal band and their fall under the weight of the ultra-conservative society that surrounds them.
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Culture in crisis in Rio de Janeiro
ACTIVISM: The Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro is a prism onto a country in economic and political crisis.
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Molenbeek through the eyes of children
CHILDHOOD: Aatos and Amine are deep thinkers, bright and curious. We follow the life of these two six-year-olds in Molenbeek – a multi-ethnic suburb in Brussels – discovering different ways of thinking about god(s) and pondering about life and its aftermath.
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«The power of the Mafia is institutionalised»
MAFIA: Modern Times Review met the Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia in the Berlinale Lounge to talk about her photographic work and the Italian Mafia today.
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The art of disruption in the world’s most closed regime
NORTH KOREA:Seven international artists travel to Pyongyang to participate in the hermit kingdom’s first arts symposium in a throughout provoking reminder how we are all products of cultural conditioning.