CineRadical: A Monthly Brief on Documentary
CineRadical: A Monthly Brief on Documentary
July's Essential Docs & Dialogues
July 2024 saw Modern Times Review on-site at the sixth IceDocs - Iceland Documentary Film Festival and Editor-in-Chief Truls Lie on the MDOC Jean Loup Passek Award Jury. As we move into August and festival partners Dokufest, Sarajevo Film Festival, and MakeDox, we take one more look back at the films, interviews, and news featured across the platform.
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News
DokuFest 2024 unveils eclectic DokuNights music lineup for 23rd edition
DokuFest unveils exciting lineup for «View From the World» programme
Sarajevo Film Festival 2024 announces Documentary Competition programme
FIFAC Announces Jury for 6th Edition of Amazonie-Caraïbes Documentary Film Festival
Kumjana Novakova and The Neurocultures Collective win joint best film award at IceDocs
DokuFest announces competition films and theme for 23rd edition
MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival returns with a commemorative edition
HBO Development Award and FOCUSFOX Prize announced for Verzió DocLab 2024
Taskovski Training #DocsConnect announces Conscious Filmmakers Lab in Sitges
MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival celebrates revolution with 2024 programme
Portuguese films shine across 2024 MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival programme
Interview
«It’s nice to have an outlet to just laugh and enjoy»
With the sixth edition kicking off this week, Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Director Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir on her background, Icelandic documentary aesthetics, the festival’s choice of location, and more.
Films
A Fidai Film
Director: Kamal Aljafari
A postmodernist and postcolonial film monument aiming to preserve Palestinian history, presence, and perspective
Black Snow
Director: Alina Simone
The dark side of environmental activism in Putin’s Russia.
Danger Zone
Director: Vita Maria Drygas
The ethical complexities and societal implications of war tourism in our media-driven world.
The Gospel of Revolution
Director: François-Xavier Drouet
How liberation theology inspired millions of Latin American Christians to engage in 20th-century political struggles, challenging traditional Church-Power dynamics for earthly justice.
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