The Helsinki Effect: Does diplomacy matter?
INTERVIEW: Modern Times met the Finnish director Arthur Franck behind The Helsinki Effect at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. We discussed the legitimacy of treaties, militarisation, and filmmaking.
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The law and the lost
IMMIGRATION: Borders are all in the mind, Loretta van Horst’s powerful film about US border patrol officers trying to stop people smuggling from Mexico, The Border Crossed Us, shows.
The perilous path of exposing corruption
IRAN: Examining Iran’s lack of free media and the risks faced by those, like Roohallah Zam, who dare to challenge the clerical elite’s authority.
When the world is really on fire
EU: Europe never became an adult or responsible player in a multipolar world. A common foreign and security policy has never gone beyond the sketch. Will it happen now?
Nikolaus Geyrhalter: «I don’t like humans as a species.»
INTERVIEW:The 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival paid a tribute to the Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter (51), with a masterclass and screening of 10 films.
Crossing the Mexico-US border as a touristic game
CAPITALISM: Sometimes the value of a documentary insists on documenting its makeup and fragile circumstances.
Prosecution of filmmakers spreads «like a pandemic»
IDFA: ICFR addresses a growing political prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers.
An endemic state of distraction
TECHNOLOGY: How society’s increased lack of attention has been imposed on us by powerful external forces.
Globalisation as social leveller
CAPITALISM: The Disrupted brings the impoverishing effects of globalisation on all walks of life into intimate detail.
Crises are good business
AFRICA: A considerable number of consultants and commissioned researchers have profited from the crises in the African belt. Sahel has emerged as a crucial area for not only Norway but also for the EU and the USA.
Small fragments of beauty
«I was born by the sea, I will stay by the sea, and I will be buried by the sea!» 14 year old Ahmad Jamal al Aqraa utters.
No winners, no losers
IMMIGRATION: While US Democrats, Republicans and the President bicker over a border wall, Chèche Lavi shows what whimsical policy measures mean to real people.