Is the sky falling or is it the apocalypse?
INDIGENOUS: The end of culture.
Cannes Film Festival
Hearts of darkness, dreams of light
CONGO: Honouring survivors of his Congo’s 2000 «Six Day War» seeking acknowledgment or financial compensation for their pains.
Key festival directors to issue shared statement at 77th Venice International Film Festival opening
On the occasion of the 77th Venice International Film Festival’s opening, eight artistic directors of some of the key European
We are movie cameras, lucidly dreaming
BOOKS: Filmmaker and curator Pamela Cohn knows all about the medium’s gallant struggle for a cinematic language that is new, immediate, and accessible to the viewer.
Cinema’s hidden power
CINEMA: A new documentary seeks to give insight into and credit to those unsung heroes responsible for the sound of contemporary cinema as we know it.
Not to cure, but to care
HEALTH: By including 5B in its documentary competition, the Cannes Festival sublimely uses a historical subject to speak about present-day challenges.
A personal account of Aleppo’s destiny
SYRIA: A painful documentary infused with the occasional breath of poetry and beauty from Aleppo.
Is it a crime to save lives?
Acting in the name of human rights has become a criminal act in France.
Godard and the authenticity of the fragment
In his latest film The Image Book, Godard demands a «revolution in the revolution», calling for the subject to constitute his own law against the society, which – according to Godard – is nothing other than a constellation of organised crime.
CANNES 2009: No Body to Film
Three films in Cannes have remembrance in common: One about a dead wife, one about a dead husband and one about numerous deaths in the southern Alps – the last one being a comedy.