Modern Times Review's Monthly Wrap-Up
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Modern Times Review's Monthly Wrap-Up
October 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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NEWS
Sunny Side of the Doc to focus on climate change for 3rd Global Pitch; announces call for projects
IDFA announces 2022 opening film, competition slate, and complete programme
Porto/Post/Doc announces first programmed details for 2022 edition
DAFilms launches child-friendly portal, DAFilms Junior, free with all subscriptions
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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