Let’s play torture
TORTURE: The Berlinale again goes straight into harsh and provoking subjects.
France
NATO – an alliance for the 21st century?
MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: NATO’s new strategy document is a continuation of the neoconservative line after Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s politicization of the group, revealing an ideological chasm between the old and the new NATO.
Land for us all – or for no one?
Crossing Europe: Four films that take a multifaceted look at the economic, ecological, and social importance of land.
The curse of colonial consumption
PROSTITUTION: How the Nigerian mafia is able to reach far into Europe to keep trafficked women in prostitution.
«All these moments we have missed for two years are essential for all of us»
Cinéma du réel: Ahead of the 44th edition, Modern Times Review spoke with Artistic Director, Catherine Bizern on this year’s physical festival, its place within the wider festival landscape, and more.
«… Who steals, rapes, plunders, tortures and kills»
FRANCE: After a number of «not a day without» statements, the French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour’s conclusion is that the country is about to be taken over by Muslims and feminists.
A cruel game by Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, exposed
HISTORY: Nina Gladitz’s film about Roma and Sinti survivors of Shoah has been hidden in the WDR archive since 1982. Reactions to her book show we live in times when searching for the truth and giving voice to the weakest in societysociety causes suspicion, not respect. But simply accepting that such are the times might be the real problem.
Invisible woman
MIGRANTS: Philip Scheffner’s foray into fiction varies the game of visible and invisible until dreams and reality fuse.
The Syrian intelligentsia observe the destruction of their homeland
SYRIA: How does one survive in times of war? By forgetting, or by remembering…?