The Voices That Defy the Kremlin
RUSSIA: In today’s Russia, even the smallest act of dissent can end in disappearance.
Russia
A Little Gray Wolf Will Come
RUSSIA: Identity politics form the foundation of former high-flying Russian public television correspondent Zhanna Agalakova’s debut documentary.
«We are ten years old, but we are still young»
INTERVIEW: At ten years old, MOLDOX meets Moldova’s EU horizon and the war’s shadow with «Chaos. Reinventing Reality,» testing whether documentary can fortify a fragile public sphere.
Russians at War
RUSSIA: An anti-war camera slips past permits and platitudes, capturing motives, injuries, and doubts while institutions debate safety, speech, and empathy.
«There’s something wrong, and I want to understand what it is»
INTERVIEW: Vitaly Mansky talks with Modern Times Review on his Manifesto for Real Cinema.
What about identity?
IRELAND: Irish filmmakers redefine identity through intimate, political, and historical documentaries at the Krakow Film Festival’s Focus on Ireland programme.
The Helsinki Effect: Does diplomacy matter?
INTERVIEW: Modern Times met the Finnish director Arthur Franck behind The Helsinki Effect at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. We discussed the legitimacy of treaties, militarisation, and filmmaking.
The Helsinki Effect
DIPLOMACY: With a gently satirical outer wrapping and a deadly serious inner core, Arthur Franck’s account of the seminal Helsinki Agreement of 1975—The Helsinki Effect—demonstrates just how historic a diplomatic process that was at the time seen as tedious and irrelevant really was.
AI, Global Crises, and Visual Storytelling at the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (6-16 March) returns this year with a programme that spans explorations of #Artificial Intelligence#,