Will Europe watch as Hungary criminalises culture?
HUNGARY: With the introduction of the new «foreign agent» bill, the country’s documentary community is under siege by censorship, surveillance, and democratic erosion.
Hungary
The adaptive autocrats
AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton’s fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese’s mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.
Docu Rough Cut Boutique presents six projects; announces 2022 award winners
From the Balkan Documentary Center and Sarajevo Film Festival, the 2022 edition of CineLink Industry Day’s Docu Rough Cut Boutique
«Every documentary from this region is simply a labour of love, enthusiasm, solidarity within a film crew»
SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL: Modern Times Review speaks with Sarajevo Film Festival Documentary Programme programmer Rada Šešić on the documentaries in competition, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the place of Sarajevo Film Festival among the wider festival landscape, and more.
To Hear Children Weeping in a Photograph
PHOTOGRAPHY: The journalistic war photos that we have, unfortunately, seen so frequently in recent months are primarily meant to inform us about the conflict. However, they often strive to take on a subjective character and become political actors. Photographs of suffering children play a special role in this transformation. What role?
Ideologies and refugees
Migrants: Refugee deterrent border fences add to the already complicated relationship between the Croats and Slovenians of the Kupa region.
FIPADOC announces full programme; postpones physical festival
FIPADOC – International Documentary Festival in Biarritz, France, has postponed screening dates until later in the year, leaving its Professional
The masses and the people
PSYCHOLOGY: Is it possible to understand why the majority choose a leader or a slave-like existence?
At the fringes of Europe
MIGRANTS: Encounters with volunteers and clashes with state forces and right-wing citizens pepper the uncertain future of the refugees.
Fipadoc announces submission call for physical 2021 festival
Fipadoc – International Documentary Festival, which takes place in Biarritz, France from 18 to 24 January 2021, has announced their
At home in another Europe
CONTROL: In increasingly authoritarian Hungary, two women face several hardships in their adoption of a young Roma child.
A woman’s struggle with reality
WOMEN OF EUROPE: Sweden’s former Foreign and Vice Prime Minister Margot Wallström believes we currently live in a world of autocrats, where Nordic welfare values have poor conditions.