Documentary Round-Up: July 2023

Modern Times Review in July 2023

Modern Times Review wraps-up July before heading into the busy August festival month. We start in Portugal for MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival before the trifecta of Dokufest, Sarajevo Film Festival, and MakeDox. And keep your eyes out for the new summer 2023 magazine.

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NEWS

• Porto/Post/Doc launches Critics Lab for 10th festival

• Ex Oriente Film’s trailblazing workshop wraps first session

• First Chilean documentary to feature at Venice Critics Week

• Milan’s Visioni dal Mondo announces international competition for ninth festival

• Sarajevo Film Festival announces full 2023 documentary competition

• Baltic Sea Docs unveils complete lineup for 27th edition

• MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival announces complete 2023 programme

• DokuFest to put focus on Québécois documentary for 22nd festival

• B2B Doc partners with Odesa IFF for 2023 Documentary Industry Days programme

• New industry initiative connects rising film talents worldwide

• DokuFest announces complete 2023 competition programme

• Open City Documentary Festival announces first 2023 programme details

• DokuFest to screen all 16 nominated films for Doc Alliance Award

• Ji.hlava IDFF opens submissions for 2023 New Visions Forum

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FILMS

40 Steps

Director: Gad Aisen, Manor Birman

A new Tel Aviv school brings together diverse students but displaces a religious school as it faces gentrification and integration challenges.

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Hysteresis

Director: Robert Seidel

AI's disruption and flamboyant visuals converge in Hysteresis, blurring history's lines and challenging pattern recognition in art.

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Seven Winters in Tehran

Director: Steffi Niederzoll

Exposing the silenced voices of women in Iran.

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INTERVIEW

«I don’t think a single military conflict can solve a problem»

Elisabeth Hoff, WHO's representative in Libya today, wondered why Norway got involved and dropped 700 bombs on the country in 2011: «It makes no sense at all.» For 30 years, Hoff has tried to save lives in war zones such as Afghanistan, Syria and Libya. How can a human endure so much suffering?

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Reports

Report: Sunny Side of the Doc Innovation Studio

Concluding on 22 June, the 34th Sunny Side of the Doc featured a noticeable uptick in presented immersive content.

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