True Story • 28th May 2023

A conversation with director Michael Borodin

'100% cotton' is a sign of quality—it is natural, eco-friendly and comfortable. But what is behind this label can be disconcerting...

Modern Times Review • 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 • 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 • 26th April 2023

The case of Dominic Ongwen

'Theatre of Violence' is an intriguing piece of filmmaking that confronts you with difficult questions about justice...

International Documentary Association • 10th April 2023

First Look 2023: The Ties That Bind

First Look, the Museum of the Moving Image’s (MoMI) film festival, annually introduces New York audiences to audacious experiments with form...

Modern Times Review • 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 • 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 • 9th December 2022

New Tech – Manufacturing the Truth?

Having to wade through misinformation galore while navigating current affairs has become a quotidian reality...

Modern Times Review • 22nd November 2022

Prosecution of filmmakers spreads 'like a pandemic'

"Most unfortunately, in the past few years, cases of prosecution of filmmakers have been spreading like a pandemic"...

International Documentary Association • 16th November 2022

DOK Leipzig Takes on the Climate Crisis with 'Time To Act! Our House Is on Fire'

Media attention is short-lived and fickle, with incessant news waves and tweets washing over us every day...

Modern Times Review • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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...