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
Chile continues worldwide documentary circuit with Sheffield Doc/Fest official selections
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
Docaviv 2022: the complete winners
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.
DocAviv Artistic Director Karin Rywkind Segal on the festival's 24th edition.
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.
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.
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.
My Imaginary Country
Director: Patricio Guzmán
At Cannes, Patrizio Guzmán´s documentary offers one of the rare elements of hope in global politics.
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.
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.
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.
The displaced narrator
By Marc Glassman
Personal essay films are growing in impact and meaning.
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.
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?