Modern Times Review #131
Modern Times Review #131
Modern Times Review - September 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
IDFA announces first competition titles, Masters & Best of Fests selections for 2022 festival
Laura Poitras announced as 2022 IDFA guest of honour; first titles announced
International youth-focused co-production forum Kids Kino Industry set to kick off on next week
Doclisboa announces full 2022 programme for 20th-anniversary edition
FIFDH Impact Days announces 2023 call for submissions for socially impactful documentary projects
MajorDocs announces eight reflective documentaries for fourth festival programme
AJB DOC Film Festival announces winners for fifth documentary festival
Kids Kino Docs welcomes six youth-focused documentary projects for 2022/23 workshop
AJB DOC Film Festival announces winners of first Industry Days platform
MajorDocs puts focus on domestic cinema for 4th edition of the «slow» documentary festival
Submissions now open for 2022 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
INTERVIEW
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.
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.
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