HUMAN idff Oslo: Festival Director Ketil Magnussen discusses the 2023 festival programme, the role of the festival director, the controversy around Two Kids a Day, and balanced presentations in the face of war in Europe.
SYRIA: Under bombs, an aspiring video journalist finds herself facing self-reckoning as the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.
CONFLICT: Christopher Blattman’s long-term project explores the reasons why conflict between groups and nations erupts into war.
AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton’s fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese’s mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.
NEO-FASCISM: Do many still have fascist yearnings today, or can one always blame seductive leaders? A closer dive into the 100-year-old Italian fascism and its descendants says something about the dangers we are likely to face.
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s staging of himself has been successful enough to keep him at the helm for years. But the role models for his ruling BJP party were inspired by German and Italian fascism.
CONFLICT: A slow-burn lesson in the human casualties of failed politics on the disputed Georgian-Abkhazian border.
EDITORIAL: As MODERN TIMES REVIEW editor, I publish a selection of articles that may reflect different opinions most people (the crowd) have about the war in Ukraine.
RUSSIA: An ordinary Russian teenager was arrested and incarcerated on charges of extremism. Three years later, the fight for her innocence continues.