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  • IDFA 2020: The complete winners

    IDFA 2020: The complete winners

    The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has announced the winners of all competition programmes during this year’s hybrid festival. IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary: Radiograph of a Family (dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani) – Norway, Iran, Switzerland IDFA Award for Best Directing: Gorbachev. Heaven (dir. Vitaly Mansky) – Latvia, Czech Republic IDFA Award for Best Editing: Inside…

  • The death of democracy by a thousand cuts

    The death of democracy by a thousand cuts

    JOURNALISM: A vivid portrait of tenacious Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, founder of the Duterte-critical Rappler.com.

  • Jammed

    Jammed

    PRISON: Light is shed on the failure of Chile's prison system as 81 inmates burn to death while their families remain behind locked gates.

  • A saviour complex

    A saviour complex

    HOLOCAUST: Starting in Auschwitz and ending in Austria decades later, Love, It Was Not is the tragic story between prisoner and captor.

  • Station to stationary

    Station to stationary

    TRANSFORMATION: Probing the extinction of history in Zürich as a railway station makes way for a deportation center.

  • Underrepresented participants of war

    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?

  • A lost world in the name of God

    A lost world in the name of God

    RELIGION: A testament to the human and cultural destructive power of white, Christian arrogance.

  • IDFA Country Focus: Chile

    IDFA Country Focus: Chile

    The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam kicks off its festival today through 6 December 2020 (online market shave been open since Monday, 16 November already). With the world’s documentary industry descending (digitally) on the Dutch capital, each country brings their best and brightest non-fiction content to #IDFA in various forms. This year, Modern Times Review puts…

  • The years to come

    The years to come

    SOCIETY: Maite Alberdi's film cleverly touches on a delicate theme and invites us with compassion and tenderness to reflect on isolation, the rigours of patriarchal society, and the organisation of work and family.

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