Nazi Archives

First Docaviv 2022 titles announced; opening & Israeli competition

Modern Times Review / April 5, 2022

The 24th edition of #Docaviv will return to Tel Aviv cinemas and venues from May 26 through June 5. The

Argentina, DocAviv, LGBTQ, Nazi, Tantura

Holidays and power

Sevara Pan / March 30, 2022

RUSSIA: Cinematic mosaic of its public holidays as Kremlin ‘closes in’ on Russian society

activism, Antoine Cattin, CPH:DOX, Elena Hill, Holidays, Kazakhstan, Kremlin, Nazi, Russia, Soviet Union, St Petersburg, SWISS Filma, Victory Day, xenophobic

A cruel game by Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, exposed

Melita Zajc / February 20, 2022

HISTORY: Nina Gladitz’s film about Roma and Sinti survivors of Shoah has been hidden in the WDR archive since 1982. Reactions to her book show we live in times when searching for the truth and giving voice to the weakest in societysociety causes suspicion, not respect. But simply accepting that such are the times might be the real problem.

arte, Auschwitz, Béla Balázs, Dieter Hinrichs, fascism, France, Germany, Helmut Kindler, History, Hitler, Johathan Rosenbaum, Josef Reinhard, Julian Assange, Kitzbuhel, Leni Riefenstahl, National Socialist, Nazi, Nina Gladitz, Piotr Uklanski, Poland, Roma, Salzburg, Sinti, Social media, Spain, Switzerland, USA, WDR, Willy Zielke

1341 Frames of Love and War, a film by Ran Tal

Seven decades of war photography

Nick Holdsworth / February 13, 2022

PHOTOGRAPHY: The pictures of Israeli photo reporter Micha Bar-Am reveal both an ability to turn photography into a refined visual language and represent a constant protagonist in a land without peace.

1341 Frames of Love & War, Beirut, Berlin, Berlinale, DocAviv, holocaust, Israel, Jack London, Krakow Film Festival, Magnum, Nazi, photography, Ran Tal, Roger Fenton, Saigon, Sarig Peker, Spanish War, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Vietnam, Walter Evans, Yevgeny Khaldei

The Invitation, a film by Fabrizio Maltese

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces 24th edition competition films

Modern Times Review / February 9, 2022

The three competition sections of the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival—International Competition, Newcomers Competition and >>Film Forward Competition—cast a critical and

Afghanistan, Bedouin, China, civil war, Middle East, Nazi, Nietzsche, Palestine, Plato, Robin Hood, Stalin, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, WWII

China: The Uyghur Drama, a film by François Reinhardt

The world’s most unrecognised human rights tragedy

Nick Holdsworth / January 23, 2022

CHINA: Genocide by any other name – President Xi Jinping’s campaign to eradicate the Muslim Uyghurs of Western China.

arte, Birobidzhan, Canada, Central Asia, China, China: The Uyghur Drama, Communist Party, East Turkistan, EU, Europe, Fabrice Estève, François Reinhardt, human rights, Lake Baikal, Montenegro:, Muslim Uyghurs, Myrto Grecos, Nazi, Red Army, Russia, silk road, UK, USA, Winter Olympics, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang

Judges Under Pressure, a film by Kacper Lisowski

Coming full circle

Nick Holdsworth / November 23, 2021

JUSTICE: Poland’s populist nightmare seen through the unprecedented pressure judges are now under in an EU state fast becoming a pariah.

Andrzej Duda, Boris Johnson, Brexit, communism, CPH:DOX, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, IDFA, Iwona Harris, Judges Under Pressure, justice, Kacper Lisowski, Montesquieu, Nazi, populism, solidarity

Darkness There and Nothing More, a film by Tea Tupajic

A journey into a world of pain

Nick Holdsworth / November 22, 2021

CONFLICT: A Bosnian’s woman’s search for answers in a darkened theatre.

Bosnia, Bosnian Muslims, cancer, conflict, Darkness There and Nothing More, Franz Stangl, IDFA, Marc Thelosen, Nazi, Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Tea Tupajic

Bottled Songs 1-4, a desktop series by Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee

ISIS and the media’s means to its ends

Nick Holdsworth / October 14, 2021

MEDIA: Terrorism, film and propaganda: how ISIS adopted Western means of reaching an international audience.

Bottled Songs 1-4, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Darknet), IFFR, isis, jihad, John Cantlie, Kevin B. Lee, media, Nazi, North Africa, youtube

Babi Yar. Context, a film by Sergei Loznitsa

Cataloguing chronicide In the Soviet Union

Carmen Gray / August 26, 2021

CONFLICT: Reconstructing and visualising the historical context of the Babi Yar tragedy, where 33,771 Jews were massacred during Ukraine’s German occupation.

Babi Yar. Context, Cannes Docs, conflict, FIPADOC, Germany, Hitler, holocaust, ideology, IDFA, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Kyiv, Lviv, Maria Choustova, Mikhail Epstein, Nazi, Nuremberg, Porto/Post/Doc, Sarajevo Film Festival, Sergei Loznitsa, Soviet Ukraine, Stalin, totalitarianism

Political propaganda, mixing of roles, and politicians – Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, Pinochet, Gaddafi, Erdoğan…

Ketil Fred Hansen / June 30, 2021

DICTATORS: It’s your connections that define you and get you employed.

Baku, BLM, cocaine, DICTATORS, DICTATORS:, Erdogan, franco, Gaddafi, Hitler, holocaust, Kristian Rindheim, Mafia, Mobutu, Mussolini, Nazi, Orbán, paris, philosophy, pinochet, propaganda, Putin, Twitter

Uncomfortable truths

Nick Holdsworth / June 28, 2021

ISRAEL: A personal connection draws light to the story behind how Israel obtained the land it sits on today.

aleppo, Amman, Assaf Amir, Beirut, Blue Box, DocAviv, Dokufest, Eric Goossens, FIFDH, Frederik Nicolai, gaza strip, Germany, Hebrew, holocaust, Holy Land, Ina Fichman, Israel, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Joseph Weits, Michael Weits, Michal Weits, Middle-Eastern, Nazi, Palestine, Uri Smoly, West Bank., Zionist