In the zone
JOURNALISM: How do the stories we hear and see come from the conflict zone to our pages and screens? Through the fall of IS, Journalist at War seeks to find out.
Ukraine
An eternal audition
IDENTITY: Encounters with three other «new comers» to the Netherlands, the IDFA opening film turns the spotlight on all of us as it ponders questions of belonging, who gets exclusion, and the constant reaffirmation of outsider status.
Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting
CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him.
The revolution inside
BELARUS: A dreamy figure takes us through the protesting crowds of 2020 Belarus as dreams turn to nightmares.
Knocking on heaven’s door
RUSSIA: Gorbachev’s twilight years captured by now exiled Russian director
A treacherous saviour
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s staging of himself has been successful enough to keep him at the helm for years. But the role models for his ruling BJP party were inspired by German and Italian fascism.
A lesson in past and present war crimes
UKRAINE: Sergei Loznitsa’s new archive-based doc is an impressive reconstruction of the trial of 15 Nazi officers in Kiev after World War II, inevitably making the viewer reflect on more recent war crimes.
Ji.hlava IDFF announces first titles for 2022 festival
Six weeks remain until the start of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which will take place from 25 to
Nordisk Panorama announces full programme for 33rd edition
Following the announcement of its competition programme, #Nordisk Panorama# has now finalized its full festival programme for its 33rd edition
The first casualty of war
JOURNALISM: The failure of contemporary journalism to hold power to account in Western imperialist wars.
A forgotten Caucasian geopolitical fracture line
CONFLICT: A slow-burn lesson in the human casualties of failed politics on the disputed Georgian-Abkhazian border.
Docu Rough Cut Boutique presents six projects; announces 2022 award winners
From the Balkan Documentary Center and Sarajevo Film Festival, the 2022 edition of CineLink Industry Day’s Docu Rough Cut Boutique