Modern Times Review

28/11/2025

Adele Tulli’s 'Real,' in the MajorDocs lineup, sits with people who live most of their lives on camera and asks what «real» even means anymore.

TECHNOLOGY: A global portrait of digital natives switching personas across Zoom, gaming, and influencer culture, where online connection can feel more lived than offline life.

27/11/2025

Ireland won its freedom in 1922, then built a film law that policed «morals» by the censor’s personal opinion. From 1923 onward, 11,000 films were cut and 2,500 banned, including Casablanca, Brief Encounter, Life of Brian, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The office is now the IFCO, yet the law still centers the Director’s opinion.

CONTROL: An eye-opening glimpse into Ireland’s history of cinema censorship, where a 1923 law allowing films to be cut, renamed, and banned according to «the opinion of the censor» remains, …

27/11/2025

A ceasefire on paper. Airstrikes in real life. In that gap, a women’s film festival unrolled a red carpet held down with rocks and powered a 55-inch TV with a growling generator.

The Gaza International Festival for Women’s Cinema screened through outages, displacement, and violations that kept coming. Our interview sits down with founder Dr Ezzalden Shlah to unpack the choices behind programming, opening with Hind Rajab’s story, and the belief that culture must exist where it is not meant to.

INTERVIEW: In Gaza, Dr Ezzalden Shlah stages cinema under a broken truce, where rubble replaces venues and women’s stories refuse to stay buried.

26/11/2025

What does invasion sound like when you mute the battlefield? Olha Zhurba’s Songs of Slow Burning Earth is the war most films avoid, where grief is logged, tagged, folded, carried.

Currently screening at MajorDocs, read Bianca-Olivia Nita's perspective on 'Songs of Slow Burning Earth' ⬇️

UKRAINE: A meditation on the human endurance of war.

26/11/2025

In their tenth year, we welcome Moldox Festival as a festival partner with MTR on-site across the duration of the festival.

Find all MTR coverage of 2025 Moldox -> https://www.moderntimes.review/tag/moldox/

25/11/2025

A man wades into a Cuban swamp with a rope and a stick and comes back with a crocodile and a question. What does survival cost when the pantry is empty, the clinic is far, and the radio keeps promising a «happy» revolution?

Screening at MajorDocs, 'To The West, in Zapata' captures a family at the edge of the map and the end of their patience.

CUBA: A hypnotic black and white portrait of family life on the margins, where propaganda blares from the radio and love becomes the last reliable safety net.

25/11/2025

Mallorca's «slow» documentary film festival returns today ,running through 29 November.

Find all MTR reviews & news -> https://www.moderntimes.review/tag/majordocs/

24/11/2025

The Kartli Kingdom, premiering at IDFA and winning Best Directing, stays with families pushed from Abkhazia who were promised apartments and got a decaying sanatorium instead. Meanwhile, Georgia’s ruling party squeezes media and jails dissenters while waving the flag of «stability.»

GEORGIA: Three generations endure postwar exile in a fractured building above Tbilisi.

21/11/2025

An Emmy winner you can barely find in Europe, We Will Dance Again sticks to one narrow lens, the phones of young Israelis at the Nova rave and the videos their attackers filmed.

The documentary wants to be raw testimony, not propaganda. Yet its construction does the propagandistic work for you as the most disturbing images arrive without any editorial spine on decades of blockade, siege, and policy failure.

ISRAEL: A tense mosaic of 7 October at Nova told by those who filmed it.

21/11/2025

«We are ten years old, but we are still young»

A decade in, Moldox Festival meets Moldova’s EU horizon and the war’s shadow with «Chaos. Reinventing Reality,» testing whether documentary can fortify a fragile public sphere.

INTERVIEW: At ten years old, MOLDOX meets Moldova’s EU horizon and the war’s shadow with «Chaos. Reinventing Reality,» testing whether documentary can fortify a fragile public sphere.

21/11/2025

The 22nd Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival continues online through 30 November.

The 22nd Verzió Human Rights Documentary Film Festival has announced its award winners, following eight days of screenings and discussions in Budapest and across Hungary. In the International Comp…

20/11/2025

The Amazon produces a fifth of the world’s oxygen and holds nearly half of Earth’s remaining tropical rainforest. For a million Indigenous people across some 400 nations, it is not a resource, but a relative.

Yanuni centres that truth through Juma Xipaia, whose leadership broke gender barriers and whose courage has been tested since age thirteen.

From Porto/Post/Doc, read Bianca Olivia-Nita's perspective on 'Yanuni' ⬇️

INDIGINOUS: The intimate cost of fighting for the Amazon.