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  • Cinematic ethics – and dilemmas

    ETHICS: What can a festival's Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as…

  • Creative Non-Fiction Weekend 2024: Strength in vulnerability

    The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend is a new festival in London celebrating «everything documentary can and should be.» The programme runs the gamut from…

  • Report: Baltic Sea Docs 2024

    BALTIC SEA DOCS: Modern Times Review looks back at the panels, screenings, and presentations that made up the 2024 Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries.

  • IceDocs 2024: Between the mountains and the sea

    ICEDOCS: IceDocs emphasised authentic filmmaker-audience connections, featuring diverse documentaries, seminars, and local cultural experiences.

  • The new barbarians

    MIGRATION: When visiting a migrant island like Lampedusa, what experiences can be linked to the theory of the 'Other'? Perhaps some philosophers can show…

  • The privilege of the self-portrait

    MEXICO: The intersection of migration and personal identity with Night of the Coyotes and Frida: A Self-Portrait.

  • DOX:EXCHANGE: documenting change in restrictive environments

    Making documentary films and nurturing an ecosystem is not easy for most filmmakers, but in #Belarus and #Georgia, filmmakers encounter hurdles outside of the…

  • Bodies and freedom

    THESSALONIKI: Elina Psykou's Stray Bodies sheds thought-provoking light on bodily autonomy through abortion, in-vitro fertilization and euthanasia, while Tzeli Hadjidimitriou tells the story of…

  • CPH:DOX INTER:ACTIVE: Intersections of flesh and code

    REPORT: When CPH:DOX opened its doors for its 21st instalment between 13 and 24 March 2024, it centred on issues ranging from fertility, ableism,…

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