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Creative Non-Fiction Weekend 2024: Strength in vulnerability
The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend is a new festival in London celebrating «everything documentary can and should be.» The programme runs the gamut from new films, including a couple UK premieres, to a one-on-one VR/performance experience, to films that are over a decade old and included, one senses, because they are favourites of programmer #Orla…
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Populism – a buzzword?
EDITORIAL: The term «populism» is so broad as to be basically meaningless. It can conjure the spectres of fascism, authoritarianism, nativism, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia and all the other bêtes noires of modern liberal democracy. And what about the documentaries on the populism?
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A cinematic prayer
Rithy Panh’s cinematic excavation of the Cambodian genocide is well into its third decade, and at least its fifth aesthetic approach.
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Is it time to take Steve Bannon seriously?
“Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.”
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The China Hustle
FINANCE: You saw The Big Short, right?
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A Film about a Precidency
USA: Far from the final word about the end of the Obama administration.