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Electing Ms Santa

Aleksandra Biernacka / August 21, 2026

POLITICS: Raisa Răzmeriță’s debut documentary follows Elena, a Moldovan social activist known locally as Santa, as she moves from solving her village’s problems to openly challenging its entrenched male leadership.

Electing Ms Santa, HaiDOC Productions, Moldova, Raisa Razmerita, Romania, Sarajevo Film Festival, tallinn black nights, Tangaj Production

The World According to My Dad Marta Kovářová,

Echoes of Ji.hlava continues to Romania, Poland, and USA

Modern Times Review / March 14, 2024

The Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, a pivotal event celebrating non-fiction cinematic work, has expanded its horizon far beyond its

BELDOCS, Ján Mančuška, Poland, Romania, UNATC, Union Docs, USA

Are we being fooled by IKEA’s promise of a greener future?

Margareta Hruza / February 15, 2024

CAPITALISM: Ikea, consuming a tree per second, acquires vast lands globally, endangering ecosystems and becoming the forest’s most formidable foe.

arte, Brazil and, but it is IKEA at the end of the economic chain that sustains and supports the ecologic degradation of the native forest. Like with everything that is fast, by 2025. As a part of their preparation, capitalism, Carpathian Forest, causing environmental disasters. In Brazil, China, climate, Cold War, communist, consumption, deforestation, Disclose Films, ecology, Equality, fashion, food, forest colonisation, Ikea, IKEA - The Tree Hunter, IKEA has been hiding behind contractors, IKEA is being taken to court for bringing ecological damage to that country's forest. As one of the lawyers put it, Ingvar Kamprad, it is our, Marianne Kerfriden, or furniture, Poland, Premieres Lignes, Romania, Russia, they bought vast forests in these countries where they applied their «sustainable forest management.» The strategy was to replace valuable virgin forests with fast-growing pine trees, welfare, which would be ready to log in 50 years. The locals call it a form of forest colonisation, Wood, Xavier Deleu, you always can be sure that someone is paying that price.» In this case, «We are on a highway to ecological hell.» Until now, «when the price is very low

For those who want to understand this crisis

John Y Jones / March 9, 2023

Sn overview of the balance of power, progression of the war, the propaganda threat, the Russians’ intentions and Western reactions, the Nazi accusations and lies campaigns.

Afghanistan, Boris Johnson, Bush, conflict, Democracy, Donbas, EU, Iraq, Kyiv, Libya, Liz, Luhansk, Maidan, Mariupol, media, moscow, NATO, nuclear weapons, Poland, propaganda, Putin, racism, RAND, Romania, Russia, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, the, trump, Ukraine War, UN, United States, Warsaw Pact, Zelensky

Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta and the question of ethics in filmmaking

Margareta Hruza / November 2, 2022

ETHICS: The first season of Ji.hlava’s IDFF Conference of Ethics in Filmmaking was a necessary conversation around the need for common ethical principles in documentary filmmaking.

communist, Czechia, ethics, Jan Motal, Marek Hovorka, paedophilia, Romania, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

Docu Rough Cut Boutique 2022 winner Fairy Garden

Docu Rough Cut Boutique presents six projects; announces 2022 award winners

Modern Times Review / August 18, 2022

From the Balkan Documentary Center and Sarajevo Film Festival, the 2022 edition of CineLink Industry Day’s Docu Rough Cut Boutique

Balkan Documentary Center, CAT&Docs, CineLink Industry Days, Croatia, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, DOK Leipzig, Dokufest, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Movies That Matter, Romania, Sarajevo Film Festival, Serbia, Ukraine

Wanted Like a Black Buffalo, a film by Dan Piţa, Mircea Veroiu, Youssouff Aidaby, Petre Bokor, Andrei Cătălin Băleanu

25° meridian countries showcased at the 2nd Film O’Clock International Festival

Modern Times Review / February 28, 2022

The 2nd edition of the Film O’Clock International Festival will take place between March 1-6, 2022, in six countries on

Bulgaria, Egypt and, Film O’Clock International Festival, Greece, Lithuania, Romania

Alis, a film by Nicolas van Hemelryck, Clare Weiskopf

ChileDoc descends on IDFA with diverse selection of Chilean productions

Modern Times Review / November 15, 2021

The 34th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam kicks takes place 17 – 28 November 2021. With the world’s documentary industry descending

Agrentina The, Chile, ChileDoc, colombia, Costa Rica, France An, Germany In, IDFA, Romania

Ji.hlava IDFF celebrates 25 years with full programme announcement

Modern Times Review / October 14, 2021

The 25th Ji.hlava IDFF kicks-off in two weeks and celebrates a quarter-century. Three hundred films, including the latest Czech and

David Abram, ji.hlava, Ji.hlava IDFF, Judith Butler, Romania, Sahra Karimi, susan sontag, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

Romanian documentary filmmaker critically beaten covering illegal logging

Modern Times Review / September 17, 2021

While filming a new documentary on illegal #deforestation in #Romania, filmmaker and journalist #Mihai Dragolea#, environmental activist #Tiberiu Bosutar#, and

deforestation, Mihai Dragolea, Romania, Tiberiu Bosutar

War is a racket

Marc Molas Carol / August 15, 2021

CONFLICT: The story of a Romanian soldier in the Afghan war and that of a young girl who found herself in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

Afghanistan, Baghdad, British Empire, conflict, Diana Păroiu, Julian Assange, Middle, NATO, opium?, Romania, Sarajevo Film Festival, taliban, The Same Dream, UN, United States, Vlad Petri

«Out of 11 bioregions in the European Union, Romania has 5. More than any other country»

Steve Rickinson / July 22, 2021

TIFF: Modern Times Review speaks with Wild Romania director Dan Dinu ahead of the epic nature documentary’s world premiere.

Black Sea, Carpathian Mountains, climate change, Cluj-Napoca, Cosmin, Cosmin Dumitrache, Dan Dinu, Danube, Danube Delta, European Union, nature documentary, Netflix, Romania, TIFF, Transilvania International Film Festival