The Eukrainian
UKRAINE: The high-wire act of a Ukrainian leader navigating war, diplomacy, and EU bureaucracy in a continent losing its sense of unity.
Maidan
Facing War
NATO: If this opening film at CPH:DOX was screened 30 years ago, we would have bought this narrative. But now, we have alternative media, independent authors, investigative journalists, Wikileaks and solidarity communities outside the military media research community.
Visions of a waning west
CONFLICT: Emmanuel Todd predicts the West’s decline, analysing the Russo-Ukrainian war and its implications in his thought-provoking book.
‘Refolution!’
UPRISING: UPRISING / Asef Bayat attempts to challenge the analysis of the Arab Spring (2011) as an unequivocal defeat.
The reality of capitalism and beyond
NEOLIBERALISM: Capitalist realism is a term for the late capitalist world where it is not possible to imagine a different and better one – it is what it is. Did neoliberal capital take the form of a wall-to-wall ideology, constituting an affective regime? And was the ‘end of history’ nothing more than a class project?
For those who want to understand this crisis
History repeating
WAR: Footage from a Soviet war crimes trial in Kiev in 1946 underscores today’s atrocities committed by the heirs to the Red Army in Ukraine.
Unpacking trauma
UKRAINE: The young Ukrainian generation, scarred by war, prepares a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
War in Ukraine – as experienced by those living through it
UKRAINE: A glimpse of the war as experienced by Ukrainians every day since Russian forces invaded on February 24, 2022.
Day-to-day life amongst a pro-Russian battalion in Ukraine
Their Own Republic by Russian director Aliona Polunina caused quite a fury at this year‘s Doclisboa due to its pro-Russian stance. The documentary nonetheless offers an interesting insight into the side of the Ukrainian conflict rarely portrayed in western media.
ANDREI KURKOV: «With its 26 minorities, Ukraine is already cosmopolitan»
We are talking with Andrei Kurkow about the deeper national soul in Ukraine, about the significance of literature, about pluralism, and the relations between Russians and Ukrainians. Modern Times met the country’s most well-known author, Andrey Kurkov.