Modern Times Review wraps up 2022 with one final month of content from the eventful year that was. We also wrap up our two-year collaboration with Ji.hlava IDFF & DOK.Revue Media & Documentary Seminar 2.0 will all student content featured HERE, courtesy of EEA and Norway Grants 2014–2021.

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NEWS

FIPADOC unveils first details and films for 2023 festival

FIFDH announces theme and keynote for 2023 Impact Filmmaking for Social Justice webinar

Center for Media Social Impact unveils findings on most comprehensive documentary representation study to date

ZagrebDox launches Dox of War call for entries

ESSAYS

Fascinating fascism and seductive leaders

by: Truls Lie

Do many still have fascist yearnings today, or can one always blame seductive leaders? A closer dive into the 100-year-old Italian fascism and its descendants says something about the dangers we are likely to face.

FILMS

Motherland

Director: Vic Gerami

Through an activist lens, Motherland focuses the world’s attention on the 2020 atrocities committed in Armenia's Artsakh Republic, formerly known as Nagorno – Karabakh.

Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Director: Mila Turajlić

In a documentary diptych, Mila Turajlić examines the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement via an expansive unexplored archive of former Tito cameraman Stevan Labudović.

Reports

Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival

From Kyiv, Modern Times Review reports from the 2022 Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival.

New Tech – Manufacturing the Truth?

From IDFA, filmmakers and artists weigh in on old and new technologies in documentary film and their ethical implications.