Only on Earth
Flames burn in patches, sending golden flecks into the sweltering air. The voice of a firefighter, layered with gusts of air...
Modern Times Review
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7th May 2024
Children's nightmares of war
"Nightmares are one of the most persistent symptoms of trauma," posits Jon-Håkon Schultz, a Norwegian educational psychologist and researcher...
Modern Times Review
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11th April 2024
Widowhood in India as farmers' suicides soar
"Something is terribly wrong in the countryside," said Former Chairman of the National Commission of Farmers...
Cineuropa
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25th March 2024
Review: The Black Garden
War is never glorious, even when rendered into a piece of filmmaking...
Cineuropa
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20th March 2024
Review: The Flats
Singling out Krzysztof Kieślowski's The Decalogue as a particular cinematic reference...
IDFA
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23rd November 2023
Tatiana Huezo on the fleetingness of youth in The Echo
Huezo's camera observes the moments of delight that pierce through the remote village of Mexico, as echoes of hardship continue to reverberate in silence...
Modern Times Review
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30th July 2023
Chronicling women of the YPJ
A woman who is no longer willing to become a military achievement...
Modern Times Review
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19th May 2023
Filming the right-wing with 'an open heart'
'Polish Prayers' unravels the trajectory of a young Pole as he journeys away from the homophonic, ultra-conservative Brotherhood...
Modern Times Review
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10th May 2023
Coming of age in times of war
The sunlit images that convey the teenagers’ embrace of life in all of its joys and struggles are contrasted with the reality of the war-torn village...
Modern Times Review
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24th March 2023
Beirut, which exists only in dreams
Once the rubble is cleared and stains of blood are washed away, what are we left with but our memories and dreams, or rather our nightmares?...
Modern Times Review
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17th March 2023
A testament to survival
Lights are out, now perched on a seat, drawing painful breaths, Aurora joins the audience in witnessing fragments of her story of survival...
Modern Times Review
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21st October 2022
Justice for sale?
The trove of data, extracted from the tycoon’s phone, sadly confirmed the "worst fears" that justice in Slovakia was “for sale"...
Modern Times Review
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14th October 2022
A requiem for late volcanologists
Theirs was a lifelong voyage that was marked by a pursuit of capturing the might of volcanoes and their spectacular and terrifying beauty...
Modern Times Review
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5th October 2022
Our memory cannot keep up with times
Bodies move to a beat as nightfall envelopes their soundless dance. Their movements are unrestrained yet trapped in a mute void...
Modern Times Review
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29th September 2022
The man who infiltrated a military government
"They’re burning!" Cries of despair fill the air as throngs of people amass outside the Spanish Embassy in the Guatemalan capital...
Modern Times Review
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27th June 2022
Chile's 'unpopular success story'
Touted for decades as a model of economic success and a ‘miracle story’, Chile seemingly enjoyed the fruits of the neoliberal economic model...
Modern Times Review
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30th May 2022
'Fragile memory' of the man behind the camera
When memory draws a blank, to keep recording is to remember, to preserve the brevity of human life in perpetuity...
Modern Times Review
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21st May 2022
Banned Falun Gong and the defiant story of TV hijacking
On March 5, 2002, members of the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong hijacked TV to broadcast their message to thousands of homes...
Modern Times Review
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10th April 2022
Retirement is not for cowards
Many – particularly those living in the Global North – harbour a romanticised view of retirement...
Modern Times Review
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30th March 2022
Holidays and power
Amidst the solemn parade, tragedies of humankind’s most brutal war are contrasted with callous displays of vanity of the victor, nurtured by the decades-long romanticisation of war...
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