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The «good old days» myth

Aleksandra Biernacka / February 8, 2022

TECH: As society suffers from increased digital anxiety and ecological collapse, Big Tech continues to push its nostalgia-based feedback loop of utopian myth.

Andre Bazin, Big Tech, Cambridge Analytica, donald trump, fascist, Gilles Deleuze, Great Recession, Instagram, michel foucault, Netflix, nostalgia, Popular Culture, Social media, susan sontag, tech, technology

Faith In performance

Carmen Gray / November 12, 2021

ABUSE: Survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests recreate scenes of ritual power within the church.

abuse, Arizona, Bennett Elliott, Catholic Church, cinema, Douglas Tirola, Kansas, Kansas City, Migrant, Missouri, Netflix, Procession, Robert Greene, Susan Bedusa, Vatican

«Out of 11 bioregions in the European Union, Romania has 5. More than any other country»

Steve Rickinson / July 22, 2021

TIFF: Modern Times Review speaks with Wild Romania director Dan Dinu ahead of the epic nature documentary’s world premiere.

Black Sea, Carpathian Mountains, climate change, Cluj-Napoca, Cosmin, Cosmin Dumitrache, Dan Dinu, Danube, Danube Delta, European Union, nature documentary, Netflix, Romania, TIFF, Transilvania International Film Festival

The world of tomorrow

Astra Zoldnere / July 5, 2021

CONTROL: A dystopic visual essay reflecting on the filmmaker’s children’s future in a technological world.

biomedicine, control, DocAviv, Elizabeth Liodge Stepp, Erich Fromm, Facebook, fascism, Godfrey Reggio, Heinrich Himmler, Herz Frank, Hitler, Israel, Josh Penn, Mussolini, Natalia Almada, Netflix, Palestinians, Poland, Sundance, Ten Commandments, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Twitter, Users, Visions du réel, West Bank., youtube, Zionist

Asia Pacific, The New Powder Keg, a film by Anne Loussouarn

Sunny Side of the Doc unveils full 2021 selections, including Pixii Festival XR experiences

Modern Times Review / May 19, 2021

Sunny Side of the Doc has unveiled the official Pitch Selection for its 32nd edition, as well as the shortlisted

Netflix, PiXii Festival, StorytellingMatters, Sunny Side of the Doc, XR

«The festival still is a really big, powerful machine if you do it the right way»

Steve Rickinson / April 13, 2021

Visions du Réel: Artistic Director Emilie Bujès speaks with Modern Times Review about the festival’s 52nd edition.

Alice Riva, Berlinale, Cinetic, Emilie Bujes, Emmanuel Carrère, Emmanuel Chicon, FIDlab, Giona Nazarro, Javier Martin, Locarno Film Festival, LuxBox, Madeline Robert, Netflix, Philip Scheffner, Pietro Marcello, Robert Greene, San-Sebastian, Sundance, Tatiana Huezo, Venice Film Festival, Violeta Bava, Visions du réel, Werner Herzog

Another brick in the wall

Lauren Wissot / October 7, 2020

PRISON: A picturesque hybrid documentary within a hopelessly overcrowded prison in Madagascar.

Bosch, DOK Leipzig, experimental, Georg Tiller, Maéva Ranaïvojaona, Netflix, prison, Romania, Sibiu, Thomas Lambert, VOD, Zaho Zay

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«Now, in the midst of pandemic constraints, is the best time to reflect on the essential role of the films, cinema, film festivals»

Steve Rickinson / September 26, 2020

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL: Head of Programming Csilla Kato speaks on the Romanian documentary festival’s 2020 hybrid edition, its challenges, and the post-pandemic industry.

activism, Astra Film Festival, Csilla Kato, Denmark, fat, Instagram, Netflix, Norway, Romania, Scandinavian, Sibiu, Sweden, Talking About Adultery, The Corncrake Paradox, trauma, VOD

The heart of an ecological crisis

Nick Holdsworth / August 6, 2020

CAPITALISM: The undercover work of Washington DC-based Environmental Investigation Agency shines a light into the murky and murderous world of illegal logging around the globe.

Adrian Sitaru, Anthropocene, Astra Film Festival, Austria, BAFTAs, capitalism, Chernobyl, China, climate, Climatology, conservation, copenhagen, CPH:DOX, DOK.fest München, Earth Day, Ebba Sinzinger, ecology, Emmys, FIPADOC, Hot Docs, HUMAN idff Oslo, indigenous, Michaela Kirst, Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, natural world, Netflix, NHU, One World Romania, Peabodys, Peru, Romania, Sarajevo Film Festival, siberia, Super Bowl, Thomas Tielsch, Transilvania International Film Festival, Vienna, Vincent Lucassen, Wood, World Wildlife Fund

É Tudo Verdade/It’s All True at Cannes Docs – Marché du Film

Marc Molas Carol / June 24, 2020

Amir Labaki founder and director of It’s All True, celebrating it’s 25th edition this year. Anna Glogowski as moderator and

Amir Labaki, Andrés Di Tella, Anna Glogowski, Brazil, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, Cannes Docs, Cannes Docs - Marché du Film, colonialism, Covid-19, It’s All True, Latin America, Netflix, Petra Costa, racism, trauma, VR

What’s happening to our planet?

michael john long / June 1, 2020

ECOLOGY: How a massively popular nature TV series can help the world

Anthropocene, BAFTAs, BBC, Beijing, Chernobyl, Chinese, climate, Climatology, conservation, Documentary, Earth Day, ecology, Emmys, I hesitate to say given the country in which it was made, IDFA and, natural world, Netflix, NHU, Peabodys, Smog Town is, Super Bowl, Take Our Planet, World Wildlife Fund

Flight from a secluded world

Hans Henrik Fafner / April 30, 2020

RELIGION: A thoughtful story of young girl leaving Hassidic community for a better life on the outside.

Alexa Karolinski, Anna Winger, Berlin, Brooklyn as a, Covid-19, Deborah Feldman, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish, Netflix, Religion, stigmatization, Tora, Unorthodox, Williamsburg, yemen, Zionist