Modern Times Review • 13th October 2021

Contemplating human cohabitation with biodiversity

As humans relentlessly transform landscapes to their needs, the question looms: is peaceful coexistence with other species attainable?

Modern Times Review • 2nd July 2021

COVID-19 - 1.5 years later. Do we know better now?

In times when a blame game ousts self-scrutiny, 'Wuhan Wuhan' refuses to further politicise the virus...

Modern Times Review • 3rd June 2021

Investigation into insomnia

Have wild animals resorted to nocturnality to avoid the one species that has earned an ill fame when it comes to co-existence?

Modern Times Review • 6th May 2021

The psychological toll of deportation

What defines an immigrant’s deportability? Jonas Schaffter’s documentary 'Arada' throws into relief the contentious question that deportation poses...

International Documentary Association • 7th May 2020

Documentary Association of Europe: Post-Launch

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, transforming the documentary industry as we know it...

International Documentary Association • 7th November 2016

IDA Pioneer Award: Ally Derks Reflects on Three Decades at the Helm

IDFA has grown from a small gathering of documentary enthusiasts to the world's largest documentary film festival...

Modern Times Review • 12th March 2021

In pursuit of 'law and order'

The 30-minute documentary Random Patrol, directed by French filmmaker Yohan Guignard, opens with a view of a police car at the break of day.

Modern Times Review • 26th November 2020

The death of democracy by a thousand cuts

When the president himself becomes the political arena, politics turns into a carousel of absurdity...

Modern Times Review • 10th November 2020

What is left after the dust settles?

Dutch documentary 'Once the Dust Settles' revisits cities devastated by disasters...

Modern Times Review • 23rd June 2020

'All bodies are good bodies!'

In a parade of undesirable questions, 'Do you think I’m fat?' is often at the forefront...

Modern Times Review • 27th April 2020

Can we live together?

The documentary 'The Sea Between Us' follows two women as they navigate their lives in Beirut...

International Documentary Association • 5th March 2020

From Singapore with Love: Tan Pin Pin

What is the role of a documentary filmmaker in a country that has been largely devoid of images of itself on the big screen?

Modern Times Review • 13th November 2019

In Limbo, Caught Between Two Worlds

'Barzaj' is a poetic account of a group of Moroccan boys who find shelter in Harbour Melilla...

Modern Times Review • 4th November 2019

North Korea is ‘Biggest Illegal Job Agency in the World’

North Korea, one of the world’s most heavily sanctioned nations...

International Documentary Association • 28th October 2019

Docs Behind Bars: DOK Leipzig's Collaboration with Juvenile Inmates

When one thinks of a festival’s screening venues, a prison is not an immediate choice...

Modern Times Review • 3rd August 2019

Colombia’s 'Obsession' with Images of Dead Guerrilla Fighters

Is there any link between the production of images and our experience of war?

Modern Times Review • 10th February 2019

Werner Herzog: 'Facts Do Not Constitute the Truth'

The 2018 DOK Leipzig festival held a homage to the work of Werner Herzog, who perhaps needs no introduction...

Modern Times Review • 4th January 2019

Theo Angelopoulos, the Filmmaker of Migration

"There are the forgotten films. There are the lost films, the reels of which are found years later"...

Modern Times Review • 23rd October 2018

Laila, Mother of the Addicts

Laila Haidari, a roundly built Afghan woman in her thirties, puts on her ballerina shoes and heads under the notorious Pul-e Sukhta Bridge...

Berlinale Talents • 18th February 2018

Evading the Look

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, rethinking the socialist past seemed like an important chore...