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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.

22/12/2025

'Inside Gaza' follows AFP journalists as they watch their own images struggle to travel. Director Helene Lam Trong shows the cost of obeying orders from afar, and the cost of disobeying them. She shows how quickly a war becomes unreportable because the infrastructure that makes evidence shareable is dismantled. By the end, the correspondents are in Cairo, Doha, Brussels, while the war continues without them.

GAZA: Rare AFP videos anchor this documentary about Gaza’s vanishing visibility, accusations against reporters, and the breaking of a newsroom under siege.

19/12/2025

'The Encampments' tracks the 2024 campus sit-ins that began at Columbia and ricocheted across the world, then splices them against the real-time feed of Gaza that students said they could not unsee.

ACTIVISM: From Chicago 7 to Columbia, The Encampments shows how protest is reframed as threat, as language like terrorist and «anti Semite» is used to silence dissent.

16/12/2025

Refaat Alareer was 44 when he died in Gaza on December 6, 2023, and suddenly a few lines of verse travelled faster than any newsroom could follow.

'If I Must Die' was simple and direct, and it refused to beg. The result is an anthology of poetry and prose that should be argued with and read closely, but is quietly pushed aside.

GAZA: Refaat Alareer’s life under siege in Gaza, his viral poem If I Must Die, and a case for words as resistance when the world refuses to listen.

15/12/2025

'The Shipwrecked' is about small tasks that keep the world from collapsing. It watches hands, soil, tools, careful routines, and the kind of patience that looks apolitical until you hear what everyone is carrying. Diego Gutierrez stacks these lives into an existential study of meaning under pressure, framing Anthony Giddens as a reflexive self-project.

MEXICO: Lives intersect through gardens, conservation, faith, and farming, as myth and landscape frame survival strategies in a country shaped by violence.

14/12/2025

«Forget all the epic tales of war correspondents.»

'Vulture' (Europa Editions) punctures the mythology with scenes of editors hungry for spectacle, freelancers hustling for bylines, drones tracking Western bodies while locals absorb the risk.

Francesca Borri calls Phoebe Greenwood’s razor-sharp novel «the truest of all» because it spotlights the fixer as the real reporter and the careerism that erases them.

JOURNALISM: A savage novel punctures war correspondent hero myths, exposing careerism, entitlement, and the fixer who does the real work.

13/12/2025

Moldox Lab’s Pitch@Moldox 2025 turned emerging Moldovan documentaries into European-ready projects, from healthcare breakdowns to VHS memories, war-scarred identity and landfill soundscapes.

MOLDOVA: MOLDOX’s Pitch@Moldox 2025 turns emerging Moldovan docs into European-ready projects, from healthcare breakdown to VHS memory, war-scarred identity and landfill soundscapes.

12/12/2025

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©: 'Our Land, Our Freedom' by Meena Nanji and Zippy Kimundu

FIFDH Days # 2026 will open on Thursday 15 January with an online webinar on how documentary filmmakers and their partners can build effective teams for social change campaigns. Titled «Imp…

11/12/2025

The festival's 37th edition kicks off with a double opening led by new films from Agnieszka Holland and Kirill Serebrennikov, and a closing-night screening of Ildikó Enyedi’s latest feature.

The 37th Trieste Film Festival, billed by organizers as Italy’s leading showcase for Central and Eastern European cinema, will run from January 16–24, 2026, with a double opening led by new films …

10/12/2025

Short documentary films (up to 25 minutes) from Central and Eastern Europe have until 1 February 2026 to apply.

The Institute of Documentary Film’s Short Pitch Programme returns in May 2026 as an industry-facing platform for short documentary films (up to 25 minutes) from Central and Eastern Europe, s…

09/12/2025

Identity politics form the foundation of former high-flying Russian public television correspondent Zhanna Agalakova's debut documentary, 'A Little Gray Wolf Will Come'.

Years of plying state propaganda bring her to a point of no return: salvage her conscience and resign, or continue to lie for Putin. With her daughter as a mirror, she explores what it means to be Russian and human, as Putin plunges her country into the abyss.

RUSSIA: Identity politics form the foundation of former high-flying Russian public television correspondent Zhanna Agalakova’s debut documentary.

08/12/2025

The Moldox Festival Green Vine Trophy–winning 'Last Letters from my Grandma' places a su***de, a steel town, and a stack of letters against slogans about equality and order.

Throughout the film, Director Olga Lucovnicova’s still camera denies easy catharsis. Do we romanticise the past because the present won’t answer us, or because we won’t read history’s fine print?

IDENTITY: From Moldova to the southern Urals to Spain, Last Letters from My Grandma links family loss to larger political fractures, asking what peace costs and who pays.

05/12/2025

The announcement comes after the loss of the main European grant for the La Rochelle market.

Doc Services, the organizer of Sunny Side of the Doc, said it will not hold the documentary industry market in 2026, citing the loss of its main European grant, a decline in key financial support,…

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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])