October 2022 saw Modern Times Review across the continent from Mallorca’s MajorDocs to Portugal’s Doclisboa to Czech Republic’s Ji.hlava IDFF. From a busy month, we have collected all content presented here. In November, catch Modern Times Review in another busy month with IDFA, Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Porto/Post/Doc, and Movies on War.

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NEWS

• Ji.hlava 2022: the complete winners

• Festival Report: Majordocs 2022

• DOK.fest München opens call for 38th edition

• Sunny Side of the Doc to focus on climate change for 3rd Global Pitch; announces call for projects

• Kids Kino Industry wraps its 2022 programme

• IDFA announces 2022 opening film, competition slate, and complete programme

• Porto/Post/Doc announces first programmed details for 2022 edition

• European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 «Arts of Survival» Documentaries opens international film competition

• DAFilms launches child-friendly portal, DAFilms Junior, free with all subscriptions

• Doclisboa 2022: the complete winners

• Nordische Filmtage Lübeck announces full programme for 64th edition

• DAFilms hosts free online exclusive Ji.hlava IDFF Short Joy programme

• Sunny Side of the Doc releases updated Guide to Decision Makers

ESSAY

Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting

by Truls Lie

Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema?

Editor-in-Chief Truls Lie tries, especially with Jean-Luc Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him screening at doclisboa, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival & more festivals around the world.

The cultural identity of the displaced

by Margareta Hruza

In two Nordisk Panorama-screened films, a growing number of second-generation immigrants express how they do not feel truly included in their European birth countries.

Embracing femininity as a form of empowerment

by Margareta Hruza

Two films from Nordisk Panorama observe groups of women going against social conventions in claiming back youth on their own terms.

We must activate our voices for Iran!

by Pinar Ciftci

The Norwegian-Iranian filmmaker Ali Parandian is the man behind the petition «The Nordic Film Community stand with protesters in Iran».

FILMS

A Life Like Any Other

Director: Faustine Cros

Revisiting old pictures to tell a different story of motherhood.

A Night of Knowing Nothing

MajorDocs

Director: Payal Kapadia

An evocative essay doc pays homage to cinema and student resistance in Modi's India.

Bees. The Invisible Mechanism

Director: Rubén Casas Oché

Could we survive in a world without pollinators?

Fire of Love

Director: Sara Dosa

The extraordinary love story of volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died as explosively as they lived.

Gorbachev. Heaven

Director: Vitaly Mansky

Gorbachev's twilight years captured by now-exiled Russian director

Koudelka: Crossing the Same River

Ji.hlava IDFF

Director: Coşkun Aşar

A legendary Magnum photographer's life on the road.

Over Our Hills

Ji.hlava IDFF

Director: Mateo Ybarra

Neutral for more than 500 years, Switzerland maintains a citizen army that can be mobilised in minutes.

The Ordeal

Doclisboa

Director: Zuzana Piussi

Laying bare 'the rot' of the Slovak judiciary unravelled by the Threema scandal.

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