Modern Times Review #131

Modern Times Review - September 2022

Sep 30, 2022

With the conclusion of the 33rd Nordisk Panorama, Modern Times Review moves into October, looking back at the content presented through September 2022 including films presented at Locarno and Venice. In October, you can find us in Mallorca at MajorDocs, Lisbon for Doclisboa, and back to Ji.hlava IDFF.

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NEWS

INTERVIEW

«We see it as an excellent way to reach audiences who would perhaps not normally be inclined to attend a film festival»

Ahead of the 33rd edition, Modern Times Review spoke with Nordisk Panorama Director and city-wide Cinema Walk coordinator on this year's festival as it further aims to connect local businesses and the community.

«Bosnia & Herzegovina needed a significant festival of documentary films, and now I hope we have it»

Modern Times Review spoke with AJB DOC Film Festival Director Edhem Fočo on the history and impact of Al Jazeera Balkans, the kick start to its Industry Days platform and more.

«We will never take for granted how wonderful it is to be able to be together, in person, in a cinema»

Modern Times Review spoke with Open City Documentary Festival Director María Palacios Cruz on the first post-pandemic edition, as well as her own introductions to creative documentaries and more.

Forthcoming Features: Laughing in Afghanistan – «I told myself we must do the film at all costs»

Director Anneta Papathanassiou speaks with Modern Times Review on her forthcoming film Laughing in Afghanistan.

FILMS

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Director: Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras' Venice winner is a poignant and captivating portrait of the American artist and activist Nan Goldin.

Behind the Swedish Model

(AJB DOC Film Festival)

Director: Viktor Nordenskiöld

The Swedish pandemic approach has been discussed internationally, with it its main figures both the targets of hate campaigns and personality cults.

Fragments from Heaven

Director: Adnane Baraka

Behind the search for abundant fallen meteorites in the Moroccan desert lies the fragments of human complexity.

Pisklaki

Director: Lidia Duda

Three children learn to cope with their first year at the boarding school for visually impaired and blind children.

Kapr Code

Director: Lucie Králová

Recovering a silenced composer.

Riotsville, USA

(Dokufest)

Director: Sierra Pettenghill

In a collage of archival tapes, delve into the stormy era of the 1960s in the United States with a detailed investigation of the period's incidents and their public reception through the lens of police militarization.

Rojek

(Dokufest)

Director: Zaynê Akyol

Uncovering the history of the Islamic State through the lenses of its now-detained members, capturing the reality of life in a land ravaged by war.

Sarajevo Safari

(AJB DOC Film Festival)

Director: Miran Zupanič

The story of wealthy foreigners who turned besieged Sarajevo into a human safari, paying high fees for the chance to shoot at the residents.

The Kiev Trial

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa's new archive-based doc is an impressive reconstruction of the trial of 15 Nazi officers in Kiev after World War II, inevitably making the viewer reflect on more recent war crimes.

The Visitors

Director: Veronika Lišková

It's more than icebergs and permafrost vanishing in the Arctic as a young anthropologist discovers in Svalbard, Norway.

EDITORIAL

Two testaments over life by Truls Lie

Is it possible to simultaneously touch on four major themes, such as sin and evil, the desire for knowledge and conquest, relationships and competition, or the fear of death itself? Let me try in this essay – about Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Dante.