Modern Times Review • 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...

International Documentary Association • 5th May 2022

Movies that Matter Spotlights Documentaries by Afghan Filmmakers

Fragments of the residents’ daily lives encapsulate experience in the city that is in agony: the place where war and innocence become a part of a modus vivendi...

Modern Times Review • 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 • 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...

Modern Times Review • 27th March 2022

Plastic waste’s journey into the Arctic region

GPS 'drifters' follow the paths of plastic waste from a German river toward Lofoten, north of the Arctic Circle...

International Documentary Association • 9th December 2021

Bringing Colonialist Past and Present into Dialogue at DOK Leipzig

Recent years have seen a surge in documentary productions and a growing popularity of documentary film among audiences worldwide...

Modern Times Review • 17th November 2021

Reality and myths mix in the Amazon

A piercing portrait of the Yanomami people amid encroachments on indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest...

Modern Times Review • 28th October 2021

Communism, nudity and ‘romantic ennui’

Haohao is a self-proclaimed communist and an admirer of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution...

International Documentary Association • 27th October 2021

Jihlava Film Festival at 25: Conversation with Director Marek Hovorka

Conceived by a group of high school students in 1997, the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival marks its 25th anniversary this year...

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...