Modern Times Review #91
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NEWS
Human Rights Festival Berlin announces Human Rights Forum activities & guests
Human Rights Film Festival Berlin announces full programme for 4th festival edition
FILMS
As I Want
Director: Samaher Alqadi
Following a string of sexual assaults, As I Want documents a burgeoning women’s rebellion.
Mayor
Director: David Osit
A surprisingly cinematic fly-on-the-wall view of the daily life - and epic struggles - of the Christian mayor of Ramallah.
Only The Devil Lives Without Hope
Director: Magnus Gertten
Standing up to a brutal regime, an Uzbek woman never breaks hope in fighting for family justice.
School of Hope
Director: Mohamed El Aboudi
A portrait of optimism in the harshest of environments with Morocco's nomadic Oulad Boukais Tribe.
The Colonel’s Stray Dogs
Director: Khalid Shamis
Undying patriotism in the face of a country that no longer needs you.
The Dissident
Director: Bryan Fogel
In October 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never came out, leaving his fiancée and an international community of dissidents to piece together clues to his murder.
The Last Shelter
Director: Ousmane Samassekou
This award-winning documentary whispers migrant dreams and nightmares on the edge of the Sahara.
The Return: Life After ISIS
Director: Alba Sotorra Clua
A portrait of a group of Western women who pledged their lives to ISIS, but now want to return home to restart their lives.
Wandering, a Rohingya Story
Director: Mélanie Carrier, Olivier Higgins
Since 2016, 700,000 people of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled Myanmar making the Kutupalong refugee camp one of the biggest in the world.
Welcome to Chechnya
Director: David France
A group of activists risks unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ programme raging in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
Writing With Fire
Director: Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas
In a saturated media landscape dominated by men, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women redefines what it means to be powerful.