Kyiv Archives

The secret battle between Russia and the West

Nick Holdsworth / May 23, 2024

RUSSIA: Russian President Vladimir Putin blames the West for the war in Ukraine, but as Putin’s Playground shows, the Kremlin has been subverting the west to suit its own agenda for years.

Agitprop Ltd, ai, Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival, Brexit, but which, coal, Dawn Sturgess, Donbas, Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion, Hypermarket Film, in fact, Isme Film, Ji.hlava IDFF, KGB, KGB officer, Konrad Szolajski, Krakow Film Festival, Kremlin, Kyiv, LGBT, Marek Falenta, NATO, One World CZ, Orthodox Church, Putin's Playground, Radoslaw Sikorski, Rosen Plevneliev, Russia, Sofia DocuMENTAL, Ukraine

The meaning of war

Nick Holdsworth / February 20, 2024

UKRAINE: Abel Ferrara’s idiosyncratic take on the war in Ukraine melds poetic performances by Patti Smith with the experience of people at war.

Abel Ferrara, Berlinale, Biografilm, Borodyanka, Kyiv, maze pictures, moscow, Nazi, Patti Smith, Rimsky Productions, Turn in the Wound, Ukraine, Ventana, war, Zelensky

Growing up under the approaching storm clouds of war

Nick Holdsworth / May 17, 2023

UKRAINE: The lives of ordinary teenagers in Ukraine’s Donbas region as they navigate adolescence, dreams, and the devastating impact of conflict on their futures.

Alisa Kovalenko, Astra Film Festival, DocsBarcelona, Docudays UA, Donbas, East Roads Films, Europe, FIFDH, goEast, HAKA Films, IDFA, Kharkiv, Krakow Film Festival, Kyiv, Nepal, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, photography, Sarajevo Film Festival, Stranger Films Sales, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Trueman Production, We Will Not Fade Away

For those who want to understand this crisis

John Y Jones / March 9, 2023

Sn overview of the balance of power, progression of the war, the propaganda threat, the Russians’ intentions and Western reactions, the Nazi accusations and lies campaigns.

Afghanistan, Boris Johnson, Bush, conflict, Democracy, Donbas, EU, Iraq, Kyiv, Libya, Liz, Luhansk, Maidan, Mariupol, media, moscow, NATO, nuclear weapons, Poland, propaganda, Putin, racism, RAND, Romania, Russia, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, the, trump, Ukraine War, UN, United States, Warsaw Pact, Zelensky

Eastern Front Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko

One year on…

Nick Holdsworth / February 25, 2023

UKRAINE: A gut-wrenching glimpse of the brutal realities of life and death on the Eastern front in Ukraine’s fight to keep back Russian invaders

Berlinale, Braha Production Company, Deckert Distribution, Dnipro, Donbas, Eastern Front, FIPADOC, Kharkiv, Kremlin, Kyiv, moscow, One World CZ, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Ukraine, Vertov, Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko, ZagrebDox

Festival Report: Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 2022

Nick Holdsworth / December 5, 2022

UKRAINE: From Kyiv, Modern Times Review reports from the 2022 Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival.

Bakhmut, BBC, Berlinale, David Letterman, Geneva Conventions, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Maidan Square, Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Poland, Przemsyl, Sean Penn, terrorism, Ukraine, war zone

The road to war

Nick Holdsworth / November 16, 2022

UKRAINE: Two films screening at Norway’s Movies on War Film Festival look at the lead-up to the February 24th Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Azovsteel Works, Bucha, corruption, Dnipro, Euromaidan, FSB, Helen Mirren, Irpin, KGB, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mariupol, Movies on War, Nataliia Nagorna, propaganda, refugees, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych

Knocking on heaven’s door

Nick Holdsworth / October 17, 2022

RUSSIA: Gorbachev’s twilight years captured by now exiled Russian director

Baltiske Filmdager, Communist Party, Crimea, Democracy, dictatorship, Filip Remunda, freedom, Gorbachev. Heaven, History, Kyiv, lenin, Mansky, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, moscow, Natalia Manskaya, nuclear weapons, onanism, Pavel Palazhchenko, Reykjavik Summit, ronald reagan, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Vit Klusák, Vitaly Mansky, vladimir putin

The first casualty of war

Nick Holdsworth / August 25, 2022

JOURNALISM: The failure of contemporary journalism to hold power to account in Western imperialist wars.

Al Jazeera, Baghdad, BBC, Bucha, conflict, EU, Geneva Conventions, imperialism, Iraq, ITN, John Pilger, journalism, Kyiv, Palestine, propaganda, Saddam Hussein’, Telegram, The War You Don't See, Ukraine, vietnam war, Wikileaks

One Day in Ukraine, a film by Volodymyr Tykhyy

War in Ukraine – as experienced by those living through it

Nick Holdsworth / June 25, 2022

UKRAINE: A glimpse of the war as experienced by Ukrainians every day since Russian forces invaded on February 24, 2022.

Azov, Bucha, Crimea, Igor Savychenko, Irpin, Izyum, Kamil Rutkowski, Kyiv, Maidan, Mantas Kvedaravičius, Mariupol, moscow, One Day in Ukraine, Roman Ratushnyi, Ukraine, Volodymyr Tykhyy, war, ZagrebDox

The war – and the crowd

Truls Lie / June 15, 2022

EDITORIAL: As MODERN TIMES REVIEW editor, I publish a selection of articles that may reflect different opinions most people (the crowd) have about the war in Ukraine.

barbarism, Clausewitz, Crimea, Donbas, EDITORIAL, EDITORIAL:, Edward Bernays, Fred Kagan, Freud, Kimberly Kagan, kissinger, Kyiv, mass, masses, NATO, NATO membership as, propaganda, Putin, Robert Kagan, Russia, Stoltenberg, Sweden, Ukraine, United States, Victoria Nuland, von der Leyen, Zelensky

B2B Doc moves flagship Pitch Lab to Krakow; presents 13 new documentary projects

Steve Rickinson / June 10, 2022

Due to the full-scale Russian invasion of #Ukraine, the 2022 edition of the Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network (B2B

armenia, Azerbaijan, B2B Doc, Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries, Belarus, Documentary Association of Europe, DOK Leipzig, Georgia, goEast, Krakow, Kurdistan, Kyiv, Lightdox, Moldova, Pitch the Doc, Sunny Side of the Doc, Taskovski Films, Ukraine, WATCH DOCS