A slice of life in society
Director Azari often uses silence as a tool to elicit a thoughtful response. The subjects talking about last year’s election in Iran, unhesitatingly entrust the filmmaker with secrets.
A monstrous ego-extravaganza art exhibition
Notorious uK street artist Banksy opens his clandestine world to the public and reveals the processes by which beautiful crimes turn into lucrative commodities. With cunning slapstick comedy, fumbling public-space invaders become black-clad ninjas, turning the precarious streets of Los Angeles into satirical gallery spaces.
Nobody loves a genius child
Tamra Davis delivers a tribute to Basquiat with great insight into his work and an artworld flawed by racism and predujice.
A sense of pride, of vision
Two docs about South American life and politics show both the squalor of economic repression and the fight to change history – some use leftist tactics, others use art and garbage. Both films listen to the marginalized victims of privatization, pollution and poverty.
They just want law and order
Two new documentaries: – on former parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the antiIslam Party for Freedom’s Geert Wilders.
Middle-East: (Re)Framing Palestinians
Two films express hope for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Budrus, the Palestinians also get support from sympathetic Israelis protesting against the Israeli military forces.
Voices from the dungeon
The web has had roughly a couple of decades to realize its potential as the channel for radical, subversive thinking or action. This film illustrates the web’s potential as a forum for the much bemoaned voices that seldom gain admittance to the public domain. But the prime feat of RIP in Pieces is the compilation skills of the sampling director-artist.
SAN FRANCISCO 2010: Population–migration–globalization
The united Nations Association Film Festival is not for the faint of heart. Several films focus on migration and climate changes. Many people in the Pacific will become climate refugees, and what will become of all the child migrants who leave their families?