Germany
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One World Romania announces Ulrike Ottinger retrospective at 14th edition festival
For its 2021 festival, One World Romania will present a retrospective on German filmmaker #Ulrike Ottinger#. The programme will present eight films made between the 1970s and 2010, as well as her latest, the autobiographical Paris Calligrammes. Meshing with the festival’s 2021 theme of feminism and femininity, Ottinger’s intimate, observational style has resulted in a…
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Landscapes of Resistance
TRAUMA: An unorthodox documentary on the exceptional journey of one of Serbia's first female partisans, who helped lead the resistance in Auschwitz.
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Russia’s war with its own people
RUSSIA: Two films look into the appeal and threat of Western favorite Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
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Underrepresented participants of war
CONFLICT: Fleeing one war and entering into another, the grief and uncertainty of one Syrian family beg the question: what drives a person to serve a country that doesn’t always appreciate the sacrifice?
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Everything to do with it
MEMORY: How did otherwise ordinary human beings take part in one of humanity's greatest crimes?
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«It would be a terrible idea if only Netflix and Amazon were left»
NORDIC FILM DAYS: Modern Times Review spoke with Nordische Filmtage Lübeck (Nordic Film Days) Artistic Director Linde Fröhlich and Managing Director Susanne Kasimir.
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Is nuclear energy necessary?
NUCLEAR Carsten Rau´s documentary Atomkraft Forever navigates where Germany is in its relationship to nuclear energy.
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Colonial heritage
COLONIALISM: Two worlds collide during a trip down the Amazon in search of the mixed language Nheengatu, imposed upon indigenous by Portuguese conquerors.
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Fragments from Paris
HISTORY: In returning to Paris, German avant-garde filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger resurrects memories of the city that she called home through the 1960s.