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Happy New Year from Modern Times Review! | December 2021

Dec 31, 2021
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Dear reader and subscribers.

We appreciate that you have followed our publications reviews and essays in 2021 on key documentaries and associated topics. We support the directors and hardworking filmmakers, that cares for human rights, and political topics on our modernity, like for example the challenges of capitalism, militarism, ecology and too much governmentality (surveillance).

We look forward to supporting this field of enthusiastic filmmakers in 2022, covering the key doc festivals throughout the year.

Both Truls and Steve (staff) will be seen around, and our around 10 film critics too.

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NEWS

FIPADOC announces first programme selections for 2022 festival

16 Projects Selected for 2022 FIFDH Impact Days Workshop

DocPoint brings special screening to infamous Helsinki music club

As dok.incubator celebrates 10 years, its 2022 call for projects opens

The 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces Agora Docs activities and submission deadlines



FILMS

Beirut: Eye of the Storm

Director: Mai Masri

Four progressive women document the 2019 Beirut uprisings, until Covid-19 hits.


Our Memory Belongs To Us

Director: Rami Farah

How does one survive in times of war? By forgetting, or by remembering...?


The Forever Prisoner

Director: Alex Gibney

Twenty years on Guantánamo Bay's first high-value detainee has still never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention.


Travesti Odyssey

Director: Nicolas Videla

Intertwined with days of protests, the final days of Chile's radical Cabaret Travesía Travesti show how important it is that the trans community stands up to tell its own stories.



INTERVIEW

«Our choice for 2022 is to have a physical event»

FIPADOC Artistic Director Christine Camdessus on the festival's 2022 form, how it has adapted in this, its second pandemic-era edition, and more.


«We like to think that even if DocPoint is small in resources, it’s big in content»

DocPoint Artistic Director Kati Juurus on the challenges, trends, and the 2022 DocPoint experience.



Also from our sister publication: Modern Times (NY TID)

Palestine, Portugal, pluralism

Norway's Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt on working to ensure that Palestine gets its own state.


The military-industrial complex

From someone who should know the intricacies of foreign policy and geopolitics: The last Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, on military rearmament and enemy images – when it comes to the USA, Russia, China, Turkey, and Libya.


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