Editorial

Festival Report: IDFA Doclab 2022

As one of the continent's longest-running programmes exploring new media and interactivity, #IDFA Doclab has steadily grown in size and scope, parallel to much...

Prosecution of filmmakers spreads «like a pandemic»

IDFA: ICFR addresses a growing political prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers.

Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta and the question of ethics in filmmaking

ETHICS: The first season of Ji.hlava's IDFF Conference of Ethics in Filmmaking was a necessary conversation around the need for common ethical principles in documentary filmmaking.

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.

We must activate our voices for Iran!

The Norwegian-Iranian filmmaker #Ali Parandian# is the man behind the petition «The Nordic Film Community stand with protesters in Iran». The petition has so...

The cultural identity of the displaced

IDENTITY: In two Nordisk Panorama-screened films, a growing number of second-generation immigrants express how they do not feel truly included in their European birth countries.

Embracing femininity as a form of empowerment

FEMININITY: Two films from Nordisk Panorama observe groups of women going against social conventions in claiming back youth on their own terms.

Two testaments over life

HELL: Is it possible to simultaneously touch on four major themes, such as sin and evil, the desire for knowledge and conquest, relationships and competition, or the fear of death itself? Let me try in this essay – about Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Dante.

The war – and the crowd

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.

The romanticisation of lived reality under the totalitarian régime

DARK RED FOREST: The director leaves us only to guess his true intention – honesty or paying lip service to the propaganda?

To Hear Children Weeping in a Photograph

PHOTOGRAPHY: The journalistic war photos that we have, unfortunately, seen so frequently in recent months are primarily meant to inform us about the conflict. However, they often strive to take on a subjective character and become political actors. Photographs of suffering children play a special role in this transformation. What role?

The displaced narrator

VIEWS: Personal essay films are growing in impact and meaning.
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