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From this year (2020) we have moved criticism of documentaries to attached MODER TIMES REVIEW. Our critics write there about international documentaries (most often the political one). See also PDF of the magazine on e-editions.

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The trauma story

Ellen Lande -
JULY 22ND:
Aslaug Holm, Sigve Endresen: Generation Utøya

Utøya as a hotbed for budding party affiliation: This generation still cannot be gagged.
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An investigative contemporary image of July 22

Ellen Lande -
22. July:
Tommy Gulliksen: The legacy of July 22

Tommy Gulliksen's second documentary about July 22 shows a vulnerability that is both reflective, wondering and sincerely honest.
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It wasted hope

Alexander Huser -
THE OSLO AGREEMENT:
Bartlett Sher, screenwriter: JT Rogers: Oslo

The escalating conflict between Israel and the Palestinians reminds us again that the Oslo agreement in 1993 did not lead to peace. And thus the HBO film Oslo almost feels like naive escapism.
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Touch, bubbles and buns for dementia

Melita Zajc -
DEMENS:
Louise Detlefsen: It Is Not Over Yet

Nurse May Bjerre Eiby has developed a new treatment method for the elderly with dementia, with a belief in "hug and cake".
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A linguistically dumb description

Jørgen Johan T. Meyer -
GUNDA:
Viktor Kossakovsky: Gunda

A film on the pig's own terms.
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Short documentaries with global perspectives

Alexander Huser -
SHORT FILM:
Gosia Juszczak, Thomas Østbye, Ismaël Joffroy: The chair Fish, Everyone has the right to, Maalbek

With very different angles, two of the documentaries at the Short Film Festival show how depressingly far away we are a sustainable development.
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