FIPADOC announces complete 2023 programme
Following last month’s announcement of the official selections for the Musical Documentary and Impact Documentary competitions, #FIPADOC has now revealed
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FIPADOC unveils first details and films for 2023 festival
FIPADOC will run from 20 to 28 January 2023 for its fifth edition and in an extended format. This format
Breaking the neutrality la la land
ARMENIA: Through an activist lens, Motherland focuses the world’s attention on the 2020 atrocities committed in Armenia’s Artsakh Republic, formerly known as Nagorno – Karabakh.
Festival Report: Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 2022
UKRAINE: From Kyiv, Modern Times Review reports from the 2022 Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival.
Fascinating fascism and seductive leaders
NEO-FASCISM: Do many still have fascist yearnings today, or can one always blame seductive leaders? A closer dive into the 100-year-old Italian fascism and its descendants says something about the dangers we are likely to face.
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.
Prosecution of filmmakers spreads «like a pandemic»
IDFA: ICFR addresses a growing political prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers.
The road to war
UKRAINE: Two films screening at Norway’s Movies on War Film Festival look at the lead-up to the February 24th Russian invasion of Ukraine.
«You can feel the confidence and lack of compromise in the filmmaking»
IDFA: Modern Times Review speaks head programmers Laura van Halsema and Joost Daamen on the breakdown of programming such a vast selection of films, how to maintain a balanced lineup, the reasoning behind its 2022 focus programmes, and more.
The forgotten conflict
YEMEN: With the mainstream Western media’s infatuation with Ukraine, wars raging across other parts of the world are forgotten, the devastation in Yemen primary among them.