Modern Times Review #119
May 2022
Modern Times Review: The European Documentary Magazine has a full month lined up. First, it’s the final days of DocAviv before heading to Krakow Film Festival and then Sunny Side of the Doc. If you would are around any of these events, come by and say hello! But first, we look back at May 2022 with all our news and film reviews from the month. And be sure to get our Spring 2022 magazine - AVAILABLE NOW
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NEWS
20th Ex Oriente Film projects revealed for Sunny Side of the Doc session
Chilean documentary ‘Malqueridas’ awarded at Cannes Docs
Krakow Film Festival announces 15 international competition titles
Sunny Side of the Doc announces full 2022 Global Pitch projects
Baltic Sea Docs announce its 2022 project call
FILMS
Director: Emmanuel Gras
The goals and contradictions of a modern protest movement - the yellow vests.
Crows Are White - DocAviv
Director: Ahsen Nadeem
After decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a Japanese monastery in an exploration of truth, faith and love.
Eternal Spring - Krakow Film Festival
Director: Jason Loftus
Revisiting the Falun Gong’s TV takeover on the 20th anniversary.
Fragile Memory - Krakow Film Festival
Director: Ihor Ivanko
A Ukrainian filmmaker turns to a forgotten photo archive as his grandfather’s memory starts fading away.
Little Axel - Krakow Film Festival
Director: Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Growing up in the bohemian community at Hydra with Leonard Cohen as a stepfather, Little Axel tells a story of neglect and an overload of freedom.
Loving Highsmith - DocAviv
Director: Eva Vitija
Based on the unpublished diaries of Patricia Highsmith, Loving Highsmith draws a vivid portrait of one of the most prolific female authors.
Mariupolis 2 - Cannes
Director: Mantas Kvedaravicius
A tribute to the ordinary people of Mariupol and the Lithuanian filmmaker who gave his life documenting their struggle to survive total war.
Pleistocene Park - Krakow Film Festival
Director: Luke Griswold Tergis
A remote Russian geophysicist seeks to restore the Ice Age ecosystems.
The Exiles - DocAviv
Director: Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
Looking back in anger at the lost chances to help China attain democracy, 30 years after Tiananmen Square.
The Natural History of Destruction - Cannes
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Sergei Loznitsa’s sombre documentary, The Natural History of Destruction, re-examines the heavy bombing of British and German cities during World War Two, posing the question – ‘is it morally acceptable to kill civilian populations as a means of war?’
Director: Anna Shishova
An ordinary Russian teenager was arrested and incarcerated on charges of extremism. Three years later, the fight for her innocence continues.
VIEWS
Blindspots: Michael Winterbottom’s ‘Dark Matter: Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century’
Beginning with a flawed premise, British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's book of interviews does not provide the full picture.
Land for us all – or for no one?
Four films take a multifaceted look at the economic, ecological, and social importance of land.
