Marina Richter

3 weeks ago | ubiquarian.net | Marina Richter

Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals Diagonale Documentary Competition Eight years past the massive protests which spread from Washington DC to London and further to multiple countries across the world, “I can’t believe we still have to protest this shit.”, to quote a multitude of signs held by women and spurred by the 1st election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, still resonates. With the rise of right-wing governments in the Western world, the fight for gender equality is...

3 weeks ago | ubiquarian.net | Marko Stojiljković |Marina Richter

Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals Some of us remember Soldier Ahmet, a son of Turkish immigrants, a devout Austrian patriot, soldier, field medic and instructor in the Austrian Army, a man who loved his family, but defied its long-standing traditions by refusing to get married with a girl brought from the “Old Country” and, lastly, an amateur stage actor who did not want to give up on his dream about a professional career in theatre. Throughout Janis Lenz’s 2021 documentary, Ahmet searched...

3 weeks ago | ubiquarian.net | Marina Richter

Berlinale, Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals DiagonaleDocumentary CompetitionWe hope Siaka Touray’s and Victoria Preuer’s time will come one day. In Ivette Löcker’s suggestively titled documentary, nothing points in this direction except the couple’s tireless optimism and determination to improve their situation.

3 weeks ago | ubiquarian.net | Marina Richter

Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals We tend to study history incorrectly: focusing on particular events, years, and numbers, we lose the picture of the processes that lasted for some time. This also concerns wars and battles as central points of historical science – we get lost in the raw data of when and where what happened, the sizes of conflicting forces, and the casualties.

3 weeks ago | ubiquarian.net | Marko Stojiljković |Marina Richter

Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy’s quote and apply it to the second half of 20th-century European politics: “All prosperous, capitalist countries look alike, while every communist country is miserable in its own way.” The quote also applies to the 90s after the communist regimes fell: the capitalist countries of the West continued to evolve their system.