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May 2022

May 31, 2022
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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

A French Revolution

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Based on the unpublished diaries of Patricia Highsmith, Loving Highsmith draws a vivid portrait of one of the most prolific female authors.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?’


The New Greatness Case

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.


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