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November 2022

Nov 30, 2022
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November saw Modern Times Review in Elverum (Movies on War), Porto (Port/Post/Doc), and Amsterdam (IDFA). As we gear up for the new year with some excited changes and additions to the magazine, we take a look back at all the content from November 2022, including IDFA World Premiere and festival news.

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NEWS

Porto/Post/Doc 2022: the complete winners

CPH:DOX announces new, emerging filmmaker-focused programme

The Why Foundation looks at international criminal justice problems with new campaign

Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2022: the complete winners

Porto/Post/Doc announces full programme details for 2022 festival

Movies on War Film Festival announces full programme for 12th edition


IDFA

News

IDFA 2022: the complete winners

IDFA Forum announces 2022 awards

Dutch films to feature prominently across IDFA programme

Chilean Delegation to present diverse selection of films across IDFA programmes

Reports

IDFA Doclab 2022 (by Steve Rickinson)

Laura Poitras x ICFR: Filmmakers at Risk (by Sevara Pan)

Interview

«You can feel the confidence and lack of compromise in the filmmaking»

Modern Times Review speaks head programmers Laura van Halsema and Joost Daamen on the breakdown of programming such a vast selection of films, how to maintain a balanced lineup, the reasoning behind its 2022 focus programmes, and more.

Films

All You See

Director: Niki Padidar

Encounters with three other «newcomers» to the Netherlands, the IDFA opening film turns the spotlight on all of us as it ponders questions of belonging, who gets exclusion, and the constant reaffirmation of outsider status.

Merkel

Director: Eva Weber

One of the longest-serving German chancellors ever, Angela Merkel's eventful tenure as a woman in a bastion of masculinity made her an anchor for Europe.

Port Desire

Director: Juan Manuel Bugarín

You can take the soldier out of a war, but not the war out of the soldier.

Racist Trees

Director: Sara Newens, Mina T. Son

A row of tamarisk trees along a huge golf course in Palm Springs begs the question, can a tree be racist?

Shangri-La, Paradise Under Construction

Director: Mirka Duijn, Nina Spiering

Does Shangri-La really exist? From the mountains of Tibet to global archives, filmmaker Mirka Duijn seeks the answers.

Silent House

Director: Farnaz Jurabchian, Mohammadreza Jurabchian

The fortunes of three generations of an upper-middle-class Iranian family tracked across forty years of turbulent Iranian history.

The Etilaat Roz

Director: Abbas Rezaie

Following the team behind the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Kabul as it is recaptured by the Taliban.

The Return of Inflation

Director: Matthias Heeder

Inflation rears its ugly head after 40 years at bay.

Trained to See - Three Women and the War

Director: Luzia Schmid

Three women and a war seen through their eyes.


REVIEWS

A Taste of Whale

Director: Vincent Kelner

Nordische Filmtage Lübeck

Activists and locals clash during the traditional Faroe Islands pilot whale hunt.


Elfriede Jelinek - Language Unleashed

Director: Claudia Müller

Porto/Post/Doc

By focusing on her artistic approach to language, the complex and multi-layered Nobel laureate also reveals the deep contradictions of her native Austria.


Hidden Letters

Director: Violet Du Feng

The unique written language made as a vent for Chinese women who were not allowed to read or write.


Holidays

Director: Antoine Cattin

Porto/Post/Doc

The authoritarian stranglehold of the Kremlin closes in across national holidays in contemporary Russia.


Letters From South Lebanon

Director: Simon Gade Olsen

Movies on War

Young Norwegian soldiers sent to into Israel's 1978 invasion of Lebanon received little recognition for their work and PTSD from a conflict they didn't quite understand.


INTERVIEW

Volker Schlöndorff – Full of hope for Africa

«It's about changing mindsets», says Volker Schlöndorff. Jokingly, the German veteran director refers to his new documentary on agronomist Tony Rinaudo's reforestation projects in Africa as propaganda.


COMMENTS

«We, the Revolution»

by Dieter Wieczorek

Porto/Post/Doc offers a thematic retrospection on the idea of «revolution».


The road to war

by Nick Holdsworth

Two films screening at Norway's Movies on War Film Festival look at the lead-up to the February 24th Russian invasion of Ukraine.


Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta and the question of ethics in filmmaking

by Margareta Hruza

The first season of Ji.hlava's IDFF Conference of Ethics in Filmmaking was a necessary conversation around the need for common ethical principles in documentary filmmaking.

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