Modern Times Review #125

Modern Times Review @ Sarajevo Film Festival

Sarajevo Film Festival is an international film festival with a special focus on the region of Southeast Europe, shining an international spotlight on films, talent, and future projects from the region.

Sarajevo Film Festival will commence from 12 to 19 August 2022.

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NEWS

• Sarajevo Film Festival announces full 2022 documentary competition programme

• Sergei Loznitsa, Ari Folman to hold 28th Sarajevo Film Festival masterclasses

• Ji.hlava IDFF announces 2022 Docu Talents from the East project selections

• Sergei Loznitsa to receive 2022 Sarajevo Film Festival retrospective

• Sarajevo Film Festival adds Ukraine to the regional programme

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INTERVIEW

«Every documentary from this region is simply a labour of love, enthusiasm, solidarity within a film crew»

Modern Times Review speaks with Documentary Programme programmer and DocuRought Cut Boutique co-organizer Rada Šešić on the 22 documentaries in competition, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the place of Sarajevo Film Festival among the wider festival landscape, and more.

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FILMS

A Provincial Hospital

Director: Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva

In the midst of the pandemic, a survey of an ordinary Bulgarian hospital draws attention to the country’s obsolete and underfunded healthcare system.

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Babi Yar. Context

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

War crimes and the assisting population

Also Read: Cataloguing chronicide in the Soviet Union

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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Director: Nina Menkes

The mechanisms of exploitation of women as sexual objects in Hollywood films, exposed.

Fragile Memory

Director: Ihor Ivanko

A Ukrainian filmmaker turns to a forgotten photo archive as his grandfather’s memory starts fading away.

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The Eclipse

Director: Nataša Urban

Confronting Serbia's wartime past and the evil that is still on the loose today.

Also Read: One war in the other - How a dark past remains in the present.

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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.