Modern Times Review's Monthly Wrap-Up

October 2022

Oct 31, 2022

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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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».