The Other Side of the Sun
SYRIA: Survivors walk back into the cells that shattered their lives, recounting brutality inside one of Syria’s most feared prisons.
Syria
Threads of a Revolution
ROJAVA: Ross Domoney and Danny Mitchell spin a short but satisfying documentary about the ideas of 1970s US radical Murray Bookchin as realised in Kurdish Syria.
Vulture
JOURNALISM: A savage novel punctures war correspondent hero myths, exposing careerism, entitlement, and the fixer who does the real work.
Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime
GAZA: On Francesca Albanese’ fifth report to the UN Human Rights Council.
My Memory Is Full of Ghosts
SYRIA: Life in post-siege Homs is marked by rubble, silence, and voices determined to remember, mourn, and somehow endure.
Turkey’s military-industrial complex
MILITARISM: Techno-nationalism has strengthened Turkey’s proactive foreign policy, promoted national pride and reinforced the image of a powerful state. The ‘zero problems with neighbours’ paradigm that characterised Turkish foreign policy in the 2000s has been abandoned in favour of a more interventionist approach under the doctrine of ‘security at all costs’. In 2002, the total volume of defence industry projects was a modest USD 5.5 billion – by 2023, it will rise to over USD 96 billion.
The Bibi Files
CORRUPTION: Alexis Bloom’s gripping exposé of the web of lies apparently woven by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid corruption charges shows how one man’s fear of jail has led to war and instability in the Middle East.
«It’s not about becoming bigger; it’s about creating connections»
BIFED: Ahead of its 11th edition, Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Coordinator Ethem Özgüven and Festival Director Petra Holzer on the festival’s origins, mission, and the challenges and opportunities ecological documentary filmmakers face today.
Land grab in Gaza
PALESTINE: The blind obedience of radical Israeli settlers, their leadership influence, and the state of Israel’s displacement tactics.
Holidays in the danger zone
CONFLICT: The ethical complexities and societal implications of war tourism in our media-driven world.
Children’s nightmares of war
CONFLICT: A short doc follows a researcher as he probes children’s trauma-induced nightmares.
