Porto/Post/Doc
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Meaningless events with a lot of meaning
CINEMA: Long lost documentary from Morocco found and restored, with a radical message that is highly relevant many years later
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Collective memory restored
PALESTINE: A Palestinian filmmaker has created an important documentary about his people’s troubled past by finding old footage considered lost.
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Art in spite of the state
CINEMA: Reflecting on the destiny of art and the meaning of existence, Andrey Tarkovsky tells the story of his life and work.
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Into the Flames
CLIMATE: By making us witnesses to our consumption of the Earth, Anthropocene – the Human Epoch is a planetary portrait that makes room for nuanced irony and wonder, even while urging moral outcry.
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A deeply touching goodbye
BIOGRAPHY: Nick Broomfield’s doc about the artist Leonard Cohen and his muse and girlfriend Marianne Ihlen, is a touching story of an extraordinary relationship.
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The big censor is inside
PORTO/POST/DOCS: In cinematography freedom plays the main part. For Audrius Stony, it is more important than any aesthetic criterion.
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«The power of the Mafia is institutionalised»
MAFIA: Modern Times Review met the Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia in the Berlinale Lounge to talk about her photographic work and the Italian Mafia today.
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What’s wrong with Italy?
MAFIA: Two brave Italians with courage: one as a writer, the other as a photographer.
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Exposing the misery of the Mafia
PHOTOGRAPHY: Letizia Battaglia never introduced herself as a photographer of the Mafia. She was taking pictures of Palermo, she says, where the Mafia is simply part of everyday life and routines.