Ukraine Archives

Ji.hlava IDFF presents Ukrainian and Romanian films with Docu Talents from the East awards

Modern Times Review / August 15, 2022

Nine documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe were presented today as part of the Docu Talents from the East, as

«Every documentary from this region is simply a labour of love, enthusiasm, solidarity within a film crew»

Steve Rickinson / August 9, 2022

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL: Modern Times Review speaks with Sarajevo Film Festival Documentary Programme programmer Rada Šešić on the documentaries in competition, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the place of Sarajevo Film Festival among the wider festival landscape, and more.

Africa or, Albania, Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Caucasus, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, in search of stories. They stay faithful to their own territory and their own people and tell stories that come from their personal human interests, Malta, Moldova, Pirjo Honkasalo, Sarajevo Film Festival, Turkey, Ukraine, Visions du réel

IDF & DocuDays UA establish international Ukrainian programmers and curators list

Modern Times Review / August 8, 2022

Following the online discussion IDF Industry Session Decolonization of Old Ideological Constructs and Film Industry Practice, the Institute of Documentary

Dina Iordanova, Docudays UA, Institute of Documentary Film, Ukraine, Victoria Leshchenko

The Hamlet Syndrome, a film by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski

Unpacking trauma

Melita Cameron Wood / August 3, 2022

UKRAINE: The young Ukrainian generation, scarred by war, prepares a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Agata Szymańska, CPH:DOX, Elwira Niewiera, German Films, goEast, IDFA, Krakow Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Magdalena Kamińska, Maidan, Piotr Rosołowski, Polish Docs, Shakespeare, The Hamlet Syndrome, therapy, trauma, Ukraine, ZagrebDox

Where Are We Headed, a film by Ruslan Fedotow

Unearthing hidden truths in the Moscow Metro

Melita Cameron Wood / July 31, 2022

RUSSIA: A year-long study of Russia’s capital, capturing the day-to-day of ordinary city dwellers and momentous national events.

Alexei Navalny, DocAviv, DocPoint Helsinki, Georges Perec, IDFA, Marc Augé, MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival, Moscow Metro, Nastia Korkia, propaganda, rebellion, repression, Ruslan Fedotow, Russia, Soviet Union, Taskovski Films, Ukraine, Where Are We Headed

One Day in Ukraine, a film by Volodymyr Tykhyy

War in Ukraine – as experienced by those living through it

Nick Holdsworth / June 25, 2022

UKRAINE: A glimpse of the war as experienced by Ukrainians every day since Russian forces invaded on February 24, 2022.

Azov, Bucha, Crimea, Igor Savychenko, Irpin, Izyum, Kamil Rutkowski, Kyiv, Maidan, Mantas Kvedaravičius, Mariupol, moscow, One Day in Ukraine, Roman Ratushnyi, Ukraine, Volodymyr Tykhyy, war, ZagrebDox

The war – and the crowd

Truls Lie / June 15, 2022

EDITORIAL: As MODERN TIMES REVIEW editor, I publish a selection of articles that may reflect different opinions most people (the crowd) have about the war in Ukraine.

barbarism, Clausewitz, Crimea, Donbas, EDITORIAL, EDITORIAL:, Edward Bernays, Fred Kagan, Freud, Kimberly Kagan, kissinger, Kyiv, mass, masses, NATO, NATO membership as, propaganda, Putin, Robert Kagan, Russia, Stoltenberg, Sweden, Ukraine, United States, Victoria Nuland, von der Leyen, Zelensky

B2B Doc moves flagship Pitch Lab to Krakow; presents 13 new documentary projects

Steve Rickinson / June 10, 2022

Due to the full-scale Russian invasion of #Ukraine, the 2022 edition of the Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network (B2B

armenia, Azerbaijan, B2B Doc, Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries, Belarus, Documentary Association of Europe, DOK Leipzig, Georgia, goEast, Krakow, Kurdistan, Kyiv, Lightdox, Moldova, Pitch the Doc, Sunny Side of the Doc, Taskovski Films, Ukraine, WATCH DOCS

The Natural History of Destruction, a film by Sergei Loznitsa

Choices of war

Nick Holdsworth / May 29, 2022

CONFLICT: Sergei Loznitsa’s sombre documentary, The Natural History of Destruction, re-examines the heavy bombing of British and German cities during World War Two, posing the question – ‘is it morally acceptable to kill civilian populations as a means of war?’

Belarus, BELDOCS, Bucha, Cannes, conflict, CPH:DOX, Crimea, Donbas, EFA, Gunnar Dedio, IDFA, Irpin, Ji.hlava IDFF, Krakow Film Festival, Kyiv, Maria Choustova, Mariupol, Nazi, Porto/Post/Doc, Regina Bouchehri, Roman Abramovich, Russia, See NL, Sergei Lozinitsa, Sergei Loznitsa, Swastika, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, The Natural History of Destruction, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Ukraine, Uljana Kim

The New Greatness Case, a film by Anna Shishova-Bogolubova

State-conjured terrorism

Lauren Wissot / May 20, 2022

RUSSIA: An ordinary Russian teenager was arrested and incarcerated on charges of extremism. Three years later, the fight for her innocence continues.

Anna Shishova, Anna Shishova-Bogolubova, Cold War, Dokufest, FIPADOC, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, IDFA, Iikka Vehkalahti, Kremlin, moscow, One World CZ, Putin, Russia, Sarajevo Film Festival, Sinisa Juricic, The New Greatness Case, Torstein Grude, Ukraine, Vasily Polonsky, Vlad Ketkovich

Mariupolis 2, a film by Mantas Kvedaravicius

Living hell

Nick Holdsworth / May 20, 2022

UKRAINE: A tribute to the ordinary people of Mariupol and the Lithuanian filmmaker who gave his life documenting their struggle to survive total war.

Azov Battalion, BELDOCS, Berlinale, Cannes, Dokufest, Donbas, FIPADOC, IDFA, Kirill Serebrennikov, Mantas Kvedaravičius, Mariupol, Mariupolis 2, Martin Hampel, moscow, Nadia Turincev, Omar El Kadi, Putin, Thanassis Karathanos, Ukraine, Uljana Kim, Vilnius

Baltic Sea Docs announces its 2022 project call

Modern Times Review / May 11, 2022

The 26th edition of Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries (BSD) will take place from 5 – 11 September 2022 in

Baltic Sea, Baltic Sea Docs, Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries, Belarus, Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine