CineRadical: A Monthly Brief on Documentary
January's essential docs and dialogues
Modern Times Review starts the new year in Biarritz, where the 6th Fipadoc has just come to a conclusion. In addition to several films from the year’s first documentary festival, we also wrap up the month with industry news. Finally, we look at two interesting books. One on what Russia could look like post-Putin, and the other on the ethics of aimless wandering.
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NEWS
CPH:DOX explores consciousness with 2024 opening film
Fipadoc 2024: the complete winners
CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator opens applications for 2024 programme
Krakow Film Festival announces first International Competition titles
Astra Film Festival opens 2024 call for entries
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival to celebrate LGBTQI+ narratives at 26th edition
Doc Society opens 2024 call for Climate Story Fund
Film workers unite for Palestine at 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Visions du Réel sets Jia Zhangke as 2024 guest of Honour
Krakow Film Festival announces first titles for 2024 festival
CPH:DOX embraces «Body Politics» as 2024 theme
Sunny Side of the Doc reveals 2024 Global Pitch selections
FILMS
Fauna
Director: Pau Faus
Fipadoc
The scientific and the natural combine to construct a contemporary portrait of a contradictory reality in the Catalan countryside and help us rethink our relationship with these seemingly antithetical worlds.
Invisible Nation
Director: Vanessa Hope
Fipadoc
The democratic spirit of Taiwan and its complex relationship with its powerful neighbour.
Son of the Mullah
Director: Nahid Persson
Fipadoc
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.
Theater of Thought
Director: Werner Herzog
Dive into Theater of Thought, where Werner Herzog navigates the complex world of brain science, revealing its multidimensional challenges and the profound implications for humanity's future.
Toxicily
Director: François-Xavier Destors, Alfonso Pinto
Fipadoc
An exploration of the inextricable link between breathtaking natural beauty and ecological and health disaster, as much as that of life and death, in a Sicilian contested petrochemical plant.
BOOKS
How to Slay a Dragon: Building a New Russia After Putin
Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Mikhail Khodorkovsky discusses Russia's future post-Putin, advocating for revolution, democracy, and equitable resource distribution.
L'etica del viandante (The Ethics of the Wanderer)
Author: Umberto Galimberti
In the era of technology, the Western roots in Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions lose enchantment. Umberto Galimberti advocates for an ethics of aimless wandering, denouncing dominance and embracing a traveler's perspective.
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