DOKUFEST: Modern Times Review spoke with DokuNights curators Nita Deda and Leart Rama on their road to the festival, Kosovo’s love for electronic music, balancing local and international acts, and more.
BIOGRAPHY: An unprecedented access to the prolific American writer’s solitude.
PROPERTY Filmmaker Richard Misek is on a mission to tear down the bars that keep historic images locked away behind paywalls.
IDENTITY: For the young, queer community of Medellín, the injustices of colonial heritage consistently intertwine with the brutality of today’s global liberal capitalism.
UNITED STATES: A portrait of today’s USA through immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between.
INTERVIEW: An interview with Courtney Stephens, the director of the film essay Terra Femme, about her work with archival films, female gaze and early amateur travelogues.
DEBT: A brilliant, but serious, comic caper with all the style and panache of The Italian Job – and the heart and soul of the best in British social activism.
SOCIETY: With a country and neighbourhood changing in strange and scary ways, residents of Venice Beach, California express their views of the world.
TERRORISM: After a chance encounter with Carlos the Jackal, artist and filmmaker Ulrike Schaz remains on secret service records years later.
FARMING: The filth and falsification at the heart of the factory farming system – responsible for up to 50 percent of the world’s climate change – is revealed.
CLIMATE: Since her solitary protest outside Swedish parliament, Greta Thunberg now leads a global movement on the climate change crisis.
