To be a meeting place
INTERVIEW: Ketil Magnussen, festival director at Human International Documentary Festival in Oslo, talks to MTR.
Palestine
Collective memory restored
PALESTINE: A Palestinian filmmaker has created an important documentary about his people’s troubled past by finding old footage considered lost.
A brutal chain of events
ISRAEL: Israeli docudrama unfolds the traumatic themes of violence and revenge that led to open war in the summer of 2014.
He killed because he could
PALESTINE: Manhunt on radical West Bank settler turns into clever psychological portrait of loner with a tormented soul.
Breaking the silence about the Lebanese civil war
BEIRUT: About a War demonstrates how understanding our history can breed solace, solidarity, and progress in a society where the past is a taboo.
Documentary as a transmission medium
OPPRESSION: The new documentary Spaces of Exception draws parallels between the experiences of oppression and resistance in Native American reservations and Palestinian refugee camps.
A hilarious examination of the human condition
An intimate portrait of a sarcastic elderly Palestinian woman’s life, relationships, regrets and bitterness enlightened by flashes of dark humour.
Animal justice meets human justice
Two of the films presented at this year’s Belgian DocVille Documentary Film Festival, remind us about the continuing violation of justice – may it be animal or human injustice.
Eyes on the war
Mohamed Jabaly’s documentary debut Ambulance provides a unique insight into a bombing of Gaza lasting 51 days, as witnessed from the ambulance driver’s seat.
RAPHAEL SCHUTZ: Being the Israeli Ambassador to Norway
The background for this interview were six, quite insistent, emails from the Israel Embassy in Norway, to end their Modern Times subscription, and have the remaining amount refunded. This led me to believe that the Embassy did not want to read the criticism directed at Israel in our columns. I wrote a Facebook comment about this; hinting at this totalitarian attitude, evident in completely ignoring all forms of criticism.
ODD KARSTEN TVEIT: A Chaos of lies
What is it like to have lived a life as a reporter and correspondent for the Norwegian National Broadcaster, NRK? In connection with his new book De Skyldige (The Guilty Ones), we speak with him about Norway’s friendship with Israel, about the massacre in Sabra and Shatila, and about Norwegian diplomacy.
The treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli military
CONFLICT: Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi’s latest documentary has an unabashedly provocative thesis, juxtaposing footage of Palestinians being humiliated by Israeli guards with scenes of Jewish tourists being regaled by tales of historical struggle.