DOK LEIPZIG: Christoph Terhechte provides insights into DOK Leipzig’s curatorial approach, its role within the European festival landscape, and its ongoing dedication to celebrating diversity and thought-provoking perspectives in documentary.
PALESTINE: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, provides a critical analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, highlighting the injustices and legal violations faced by Palestinians in occupied territories.
ACTIVISM: Angela Y. Davis’s essays and speeches on abolition, feminism, and the fight for collective liberation.
MEDIA: Cultural anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner provides an easy-read introduction to the logic and visions behind Brave New Films, whose documentary production is non-profit and distributed through social and political networks with the articulated goal of mobilising resistance against capitalism, racism, and fascism.
INTERVIEW: We are talking with the previous Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the man who could have been prime minister in Britain, about current issues – like military build-up, Ukraine, Israel, climate justice and labour, security, democracy, citizen assemblies, and not least of all, hope for the future.
DIGITAL VIOLENCE: With a Human Rights Film Festival Berlin workshop on Navigating Digital Aggression for Journalists and Filmmakers, Modern Times Review speaks with representatives of Germany’s HateAid – the organisation combatting digital violence.
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.
HATE: Turkish-German Seyda Kurt is preoccupied with the concept of hatred as a catalyst for tenderness. Hatred often has its roots in racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and prejudice.
RACISM: A neo-conservative movement has made its virtue to ‘expose’ the political agenda of critical race theory.
BIOGRAPHY: An unprecedented access to the prolific American writer’s solitude.
DOCUFICTION: After an unofficial five-year filmmaking ban, Hungary’s Ádám Császi continues to oppose the authoritarian Orbán regime.
