REALITY: We perceive reality very differently. So let me suggest three areas where reality is real, strong and direct for all of us. But also about what a newly translated book by Pier Paolo Pasolini says about film’s contact with reality.
ACTIVISM: Masih Alinejad, Nobel nominee, voices Iran’s silenced through social and global media.
POLITICS: What was the biggest obstacle for Jeremy Corbyn, as he was close to winning the elections – becoming the prime minister of Britain today? A smear campaign and stamps as ‘the stooge of Russia’ or ‘antisemite’?
GAZA: Sheikh Jarrah describes how the Israeli authorities subsequently sought to silence the journalists. Here is a topical book – in connection with the murdered journalists in Gaza. The democratic function of the media is not always so democratic.
IDFA: What is this obsession with creating a «safe space» for upcoming film festivals that is now circulating on social media? Who is scaring the world’s institutions to speak up?
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.
WORK: Ethnography meets animation in a playful digital environment concealing the constraints of the algorithmic gig economy.
JOURNALISM: Putin’s war on independent journalism as experienced by Novaya Gazeta and its Nobel-prize winning editor, Dmitry Muratov.
MEDIA: Surveys show that more than half of Germany’s population believe they receive fake news. In France, 80 percent believe the same.
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.
IDEOLOGY: A disintegrated society finds unity, energy, and meaning by uniting around a suitable’ enemy’. Totalitarian propaganda has led to the decision to allow Ukraine to use F-16 fighter jets against the nuclear power Russia – with the significant consequences it may entail.
BIOGRAPHY: An unprecedented access to the prolific American writer’s solitude.