CineRadical: A Monthly Brief on Documentary
February's essential docs and dialogues
February's roundup of Europe’s documentary film scene is here. After an eventful month, we move into the busy month of March, where Modern Times Review will be found across festivals from HUMAN to CPH:DOX and more. With the year winding up and the festival season expanding, we’ll take one last look back at the films, books, and comments of February 2024.
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News
GoEast connects Western Balkans to Germany in first 2024 festival announcement
Polish stories, German queer docs feature at 64th Krakow Film Festival
Full CPH:CONFERENCE «RE:BUILDING NARRATIVES» programme announced
Berlinale Film Workers call out festival hypocrisy; demand immediate ceasefire
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces full 2024 competition slate
Documentary filmmaking and human rights: a delicate balance of exposure and protection
The 26th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival welcomes Dimitris Papaioannou
Krakow Film Festival bestows dual 2024 Dragon of Dragons awards
Balkan Documentary Center launches new local development & funding initiative
Comments
A Role Model
Masih Alinejad, Nobel nominee, voices Iran's silenced through social and global media.
Films
Architecton
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Victor Kossakovsky's high art meditation on the failure of modern architecture, Architecton is a beautiful vision of how stone has shaped humanity.
Bye Bye Tiberias
Director: Lina Soualem
Four generations of Palestinian women take us on a journey through family, war, memory and identity.
IKEA - The Tree Hunter
Director: Xavier Deleu, Marianne Kerfriden
Ikea, consuming a tree per second, acquires vast lands globally, endangering ecosystems and becoming the forest's most formidable foe.
In The Rearview
Director: Maciek Hamela
Filmmaker Maciek Hamela provides a singular and emotional snippet of the war as he drives Ukrainians over the border into Poland.
Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat
Director: Johan Grimonprez
How jazz music played a role in political manoeuvres during the Cold War.
Straff
Director: Øystein Mamen
In black and white, well-composed images, Øystein Mamen follows four men in Halden prison. All inmates have committed particularly serious crimes. He shows what recognition and charity can do to people.
The Recovery Channel
Director: Ellen Ugelstad
A deep dive into the dark side of the Norwegian mental health system.
Turn In The Wound
Director: Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara's idiosyncratic take on the war in Ukraine melds poetic performances by Patti Smith with the experience of people at war.
Books
Screening Social Justice. Brave New Films and Documentary Activism
Author: Sherry B. Ortner
Cultural anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner provides an easy-read introduction to the logic and visions behind Brave New Films, whose documentary production is non-profit and distributed through social and political networks with the articulated goal of mobilising resistance against capitalism, racism, and fascism.
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