Modern Times Review #121

Modern Times Review in June 2022

Modern Times Review starts July after an eventful June, which saw us once again partner with DocAviv, Krakow Film Festival, B2B Doc, and Sunny Side of the Doc. As we take July to prep summer partners through August and September, here is a collection of content featured across the European Documentary Magazine this month.

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NEWS

• 26th Ji.hlava IDFF unveils 2022 visual identity, early programme highlights

• DocuDays UA brings National Competition films, works-in-progress, more across Sheffield Doc/Fest activities

• Chile continues worldwide documentary circuit with Sheffield Doc/Fest official selections

• Sunny Side of the Doc 2022: the complete winners

• Celebrated Chilean production companies land in La Rochelle for 2022’s Sunny Side of the Doc

• DOK Leipzig to shift focus back to in-person festival formats

• B2B Doc moves flagship Pitch Lab to Krakow; presents 13 new documentary projects

• IDFA, Sundance, True/False and more to join second 2022 dok.incubator workshop session

• Krakow Film Festival 2022: the complete documentary winners

• Docaviv 2022: the complete winners

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  INTERVIEWS

  «I think there’s a real need to see new faces»

  

  Sunny Side of the Doc Director of Strategy & Development Mathieu Béjot on the La Rochelle market's 33rd edition.

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  «It’s crucial…that the program and films add to the audience’s life and could make a difference, even if it is a very small one»

  

  DocAviv Artistic Director Karin Rywkind Segal on the festival's 24th edition.

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FILMS

Breaking the Brick

Director: Carola Fuentes, Rafael Valdeavellano

Breaking The Brick plucks us into the heat of Chile's social unrest, reliving the Chicago Boys' contentious legacy.

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H2: The Occupation Lab

Director: Idit Avrahami, Noam Sheizaf

The story of the eastern side of Hebron, a microcosm of a conflict and a test site for control throughout the West Bank.

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Look What You Made Me Do

Director: Coco Schrijber

Three survivors of domestic violence who have murdered their abusers are given a chance to tell their stories.

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My Imaginary Country

Director: Patricio Guzmán

At Cannes, Patrizio Guzmán´s documentary offers one of the rare elements of hope in global politics.

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One Day in Ukraine

Director: Volodymyr Tykhyy

A glimpse of the war as experienced by Ukrainians every day since Russian forces invaded on February 24, 2022.

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Subject

Director: Jennifer Tiexiera, Camilla Hall

Some of the biggest non-fiction films of the past years go under the microscope, investigating the ethics of documenting trauma.

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VIEWS

The war – and the crowd

by Truls Lie

As MODERN TIMES REVIEW editor, I publish a selection of articles that may reflect different opinions most people (the crowd) have about the war in Ukraine.

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The displaced narrator

By Marc Glassman

Personal essay films are growing in impact and meaning.

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The modern world in contemporary films

by Melita Zajc

This year's edition of FESCAAAL in Milano offered an insight into the major transformations of the modern world.

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The romanticisation of lived reality under the totalitarian régime

by Zbynek Mucha

In Dark Red Forest, the director leaves us only to guess his true intention – honesty or paying lip service to the propaganda?