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Lost For Words

Nick Holdsworth / August 2, 2025

NATURE: A gentle appeal for reconnecting to nature through the language we have so long used to describe.

art, Biografilm, CPH:DOX, Dokufest, Hannah Papacek Harper, Hopscotch Films, Lost For Words, music, nature, poetry, Rétroviseur Productions, Sheffield Doc/Fest

«I relish being a stranger in a strange land»

Steve Rickinson / August 4, 2023

MDOC: Modern Times Review spoke with photographer and filmmaker Maythem Ridha on his experiences as an Iraqi in the UK, journey to film and photography, favourite Middle Eastern films, and more.

Ahmed Rami, Algeria, Baghdad, BBC, Cannes, cinema, climate change, conflict, Iraq, isis, Maythem Ridha, MDOC, Middle East, North Africa, poetry, psychotherapy, racism, Sheffield Doc/Fest, street photography, Sufi, trauma, tyranny, UK, war

The United States of America, a film by James Benning

A sense of place

Bianca-Olivia Nita / March 11, 2022

UNITED STATES: A portrait of today’s USA through immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between.

Berlinale, California, Cinéma du réel, colorado, Delaware, Doclisboa, Florida, Hawaii, IDFA, James Benning, Louisiana, meditation, Minnesota, Mississippi;, Native Americans, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, poetry, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, The United States of America, United States, Utah

Terra Femme, a film by Courtney Stephens

About early female travelers and their travelogues

Tomas Plocek / February 14, 2022

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.

Anthropology, Christine Reid, Courtney Stephens, dok.revue, Dokufest, female gaze, geography, IDFA, India, interview, Kosovo, Lightdox, metadata, MoMA, New York, oral storytelling, Persephone, poetry, Rick Prelinger, San Francisco, Union Docs, Veggie Cloud

Remember how to forget

Willemien Sanders / April 9, 2013

A film about identity, memory, trauma, poetry, music, family, and death – a dive into Honig’s past

Alan Berliner, Edwin Honig, family, First Cousin Once Removed, poetry