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Modern Times Review MODERN TIMES REVIEW: Cinepolitical Documentary Magazine. Published with the primary European film and documentary festivals, on-site for audiences.

Printed 2x annually and with regularly updated online content, our archives cover all documentary films that matter.

With a title taken from Langston Hughes' famous anti-segregation poem of 1942, Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Ilana Tracht...
14/10/2025

With a title taken from Langston Hughes' famous anti-segregation poem of 1942, Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman's Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round tells the fascinating, little-known story of one of America's first-ever mixed-race protests against the Jim Crow laws of the US South.

CIVIL RIGHTS: With a title taken from Langston Hughes’ famous anti-segregation poem of 1942, Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman tells the fascinating, little-known story of one of …

In his master class at MakeDox, Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper exposed how to «write-in-movement», which literally mea...
13/10/2025

In his master class at MakeDox, Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper exposed how to «write-in-movement», which literally means «cinemato-graphy». He also talked about political cinema and mental ecology.

Truls Lie meets him in Skopje for this in-depth film interview, especially on his three most recent films.

INTERVIEW: In his master class at Makedox, Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper exposed how to «write-in-movement», which literally means «cinemato-graphy». He also talked about political cinema and m…

In person from 11 - 19 November, and online until the 30th, 2025's Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Fe...
13/10/2025

In person from 11 - 19 November, and online until the 30th, 2025's Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival frames a programme that examines how communities confront conflict, fracture and shared responsibility.

The 22nd Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will run 11–19 November 2025 across Hungary, followed by an online edition from 20–30 November. This year’s slogan, «We Exist T…

One of the oldest documentary film festivals in North America returns for its 28th edition.
12/10/2025

One of the oldest documentary film festivals in North America returns for its 28th edition.

The United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) has released the full program for its 28th edition, running 16–26 October 2025 across Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Stanford Un…

There are 30 world premieres across the 2025 DOK Leipzig competition titles.
11/10/2025

There are 30 world premieres across the 2025 DOK Leipzig competition titles.

DOK Leipzig (27 October – 2 November) has confirmed 78 films competing across four strands in 2025, including 30 world premieres. In the International Competition Documentary Film (feature-l…

'Tata' and 'In Hell With Ivo' were among the 2025 Sofia Documental winners.
10/10/2025

'Tata' and 'In Hell With Ivo' were among the 2025 Sofia Documental winners.

The sixth edition of DocuMental # closed with a string of awards recognizing both completed films and works in development, as the festival’s industry platform, the Balkan Documentary Market…

Truls Lie sits down with the old and new festival directors of the Krakow Film Festival to discuss a generational shift,...
08/10/2025

Truls Lie sits down with the old and new festival directors of the Krakow Film Festival to discuss a generational shift, reality and truth, the challenges of online platforms, and why short films matter.

INTERVIEW: We sat down with the old and new festival directors of the Krakow Film Festival to discuss a generational shift, reality and truth, the challenges of online platforms, and why shorts ma…

Kamal Aljafari’s 'With Hasan in Gaza' emerges from MiniDV tapes he shot and forgot about back in 2001. Found at the prec...
07/10/2025

Kamal Aljafari’s 'With Hasan in Gaza' emerges from MiniDV tapes he shot and forgot about back in 2001. Found at the precise moment they’re most needed, the film becomes a time capsule of a place that no longer exists.

In our interview from Locarno, Aljafari contrasts this «found film» with his radical archival re-writings in 'A Fidai Film', and reflects on memory as resistance.

INTERVIEW: Kamal Aljafari on his first and latest film, With Hasan in Gaza.

The 2025 Green Film Network awards will be presented on 11 October, both in Abu Dhabi at the IUCN World Conservation Con...
07/10/2025

The 2025 Green Film Network awards will be presented on 11 October, both in Abu Dhabi at the IUCN World Conservation Congress and in Innsbruck at the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival.

Together with its partner, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN CEC), the Green Film Network (GFN) has announced the awarding of two prizes — the Best Short Green Film and the …

In The Voice Of Hind Rajab (dir. Kaouther Ben Hania),a psychologist’s calming script stands in for an international comm...
06/10/2025

In The Voice Of Hind Rajab (dir. Kaouther Ben Hania),a psychologist’s calming script stands in for an international community offering solace while a 6-year-old pleads, «Come get me.»

Set inside the Red Crescent HQ in Ramallah, the film turns a single emergency call into an x-ray of power, bureaucracy, and moral failure.

GAZA: Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, Kaouther Ben Hania’s film follows Hind Rajab’s calls, Red Crescent coordination, and an ambulance denied until it’s sho…

Carla Simón and Jim Jarmusch bookend the 2025 Porto/Post/Doc programme.
06/10/2025

Carla Simón and Jim Jarmusch bookend the 2025 Porto/Post/Doc programme.

Porto/Post/Doc frames its 2025 edition around family memory and belonging, naming Carla Simón’s Romería as Opening Screening and Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother as Closing Film, alongs…

Films, AR/VR, and hybrid docs will all feature across the European projects selected for Ji.hlava International Document...
02/10/2025

Films, AR/VR, and hybrid docs will all feature across the European projects selected for Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival New Visions Forum 2025.

The Ji.hlava New Visions Forum will platform fourteen ambitious European documentary works-in-progress at the 29th .hlava IDFF #, with public industry presentations running 29–31 October, 2025. …

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MODERN TIMES REVIEW is the European documentary magazine written by our team of esteemed European critics. Our seasonally printed issues can be found in the festival bags at nearly twenty international key partner festivals. Our archive consists of over 1500 reviews, editorials, and interviews from the past 20 years.(editor-in-chief: [email protected], communication manager: [email protected] and chief critic: [email protected])