IceDocs 2024: Between the mountains and the sea
ICEDOCS: IceDocs emphasised authentic filmmaker-audience connections, featuring diverse documentaries, seminars, and local cultural experiences.
MakeDox
Located in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
An onion-scented multilayered platform. Planted by doc-makers and doc-lovers imbued with the Mediterranean spirit. Creativity is its soul mate, the documentary – its favorite language. It has been growing to tower over conformity and to sharpen the senses of quality and critical sight. MakeDox.
Architectural poetics
SOCIETY: Explore the grandeur and folly of humanity through Victor Kossakovsky’s poetic lens, as his film connects ancient ruins with modern destruction and future hope.
«It’s nice to have an outlet to just laugh and enjoy»
ICEDOCS: With the sixth edition kicking off this week, Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Director Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir on her background, Icelandic documentary aesthetics, the festival’s choice of location, and more.
Eastern promises
ELECTIONS: Tricked by cynical populists’ fake commitments for their own obscure ends, the elderly residents of an entire village in Georgia are left toothless, figuratively and literally.
Sunlight on pause in Kharkiv’s underground
UKRAINE: The courage and community of Kharkiv’s metro dwellers amidst ongoing attacks.
No Other Land
PALESTINE: Receiving both awards and death threats, No Other Land is a poignant exploration of resistance, solidarity, and the quest for justice in a land marked by conflict.
The irony of power
AFGHANISTAN: Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate navigates the complex narrative of conquest and control in Taliban-led Afghanistan. A film where the spoils of war meet the spectre of governance.
Between Revolutions: «I am more fascinated by the archival material than the present»
REVOLUTION: We joined film director Vlad Petri under a fig tree in Skopje as he reflects on the stories of women’s resilience and revolution in his film Between Revolutions.
Makedox 2023: the complete winners
The 14th #MakeDox Creative Documentary festival has concluded as an in-person event in Skopje. Having been held from 17 to