Stalin
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The Big Chief
COLD WAR: A gripping archival documentary explores the life of a Soviet intelligence legend caught in the web of 20th-century persecution and historical ambiguity.
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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.
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An intense look at the centre of Ukraine during war
UKRAINE: Part reportage documentary and part poetic road movie, Voyage Along the War shares what everyday life looks like in a war-torn country.
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«We select visually powerful documentaries that function well on the big screen»
goEAST: With the 24th edition currently underway, Modern Times Review spoke with its Director Heleen Gerritsen on her role, inspirations, the festival's place within a broader continental sphere, and more.
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Totalitarianism then and now
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.
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The end – and beginning – of history
ALBANIA: The country's transformation was fraught with difficulties. On the altar of freedom, factories went bankrupt, jobs disappeared, and thousands fled to Italy on overcrowded ships.
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Battle royale
NAM: In a documentary diptych, Mila Turajlić examines the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement via an expansive unexplored archive of former Tito cameraman Stevan Labudović.
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