Modern Times Review #98
Modern Times Review @ IDFA 2021
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NEWS
ChileDoc descends on IDFA with diverse selection of Chilean productions
IDFA announces main competition slate; opening film for 34th edition
IDFA announces 62 selected projects for 2021 IDFA Forum co-financing/co-production market
IDFA announces 2021 Masters, Best of Fests, and Paradocs selections
IDFA announces focus programmes and 2021 DocLab theme
IDFA announces first 2021 programme details
IDFA adjusts programme and award structure
VIEWS
Film editing – classical or not?
After 40 years as film editor, Niels Pagh Andersen now has written an inspiring book combined with video interviews with 8 filmmakers. What did he learn on this long voyage?
INTERVIEW
«Cinema is about transcending us»
Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia on the safety measures, the new competition approach, and the current IDFA experience.
FILMS
1970
Director: Tomasz Wolski
In Communist Poland, revolt intensifies as workers strike over food price increases while tension builds in the dignitaries’ offices.
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces
Director: Shengze Zhu
Wuhan, the epicenter of Covid-19, wakes up from its lockdown to continue its drive as a city of the future.
All Light, Everywhere
Director: Theo Anthony
In the new golden age of surveillance, the blind spots are all around us.
As I Want
Director: Samaher Alqadi
Following a string of sexual assaults, As I Want documents a burgeoning women’s rebellion.
Babi Yar. Context
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
War crimes and the assisting population
Courage
Director: Aliaksei Paluyan
The brave and peaceful resistance from an underground theatre before and during the Belarusian presidential election protests.
F@ck This Job
Director: Vera Krichevskaya
The story of Russia's last national independent TV news station.
How to Kill a Cloud
Director: Tuija Halttunen
Is it okay to modify the atmosphere?
In the Billowing Night
Director: Erika Etangsalé
The French colonial crimes in Réunion island are slowly brought to light.
Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege)
Director: Abdallah Al Khatib
Gradually cut off, the civilians of the world’s largest Palestinian refugee camp organise themselves to resist starvation and despair.
Reconciliation
Director: Marija Zidar
An age old Albanian tribal code forces a bereaved family to reconcile with their daughter’s murderer.
Taming the Garden
Director: Salomé Jashi
A single man wields enough power to uproot the living artifacts of his country’s collective history and memory.
The First 54 Years - An Abbreviated Manual For Military Occupation
Director: Avi Mograbi
An insight into how a foreign occupation works and the logic behind it.
The Gig is Up
Director: Shannon Walsh
On the front lines of the visible – and invisible – global platform economy.
The Last Shelter
Director: Ousmane Samassekou
Whispers of migrant dreams and nightmares on the edge of the Sahara.
The New Gospel
Director: Milo Rau
Returning to the origins of the gospel and staging it as a passion play for the rights of migrants.
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.
Meet Modern Times Review @ IDFA. Our Industry Editor/Communications Manager Steve Rickinson will be on-site in Amsterdam from 18 - 23 November 2021.
