IDFA
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Winner at IDFA: A Humanistic Portrait of a Troubled People
WINNER AT IDFA: When Nori Sharif is given a video camera by director Zaradasht Ahmed to record life in a small Iraqi town, following the US withdrawal at the end of 2011, he decides to film people who “nobody knows about.”
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Ben-Gurion: “I didn’t guide Israel, I guided myself ”
If visitors from outer space were to eye Israel the way novelist William Burroughs suggested they would view the world («After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'») there is little doubt that the Israeli manager would be David Ben-Gurion.
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Holocaust on the Curriculum
Midway through #uploading_holocaust, a group of Israeli high school students visiting a Polish concentration camp are asked to select the photograph that best symbolises their trip.
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Take a close look in the mirror regarding the refugee issue
I kept on looking for someone like Ismail, a Darfur refugee that I know, while watching Stranger in Paradise, the Dutch film about migrants in Europe that opens this year’s IDFA
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Family therapy in five acts
What lies hidden behind the word “love”? Two women meet in a psychotherapist’s consulting room. In an intimate dialogue between these three people, psychological injuries from the past and deeply concealed emotions gradually come to the surface. The therapist takes the women on a difficult journey towards a better relationship.
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Rock music as propaganda
Slovenian band Laibach could be seen as an ironic commentary to rock music’s affinity with fascism. It depends whether its audience made any reflections on this when the group held North Korea’s first ever rock concert – organised by Norwegian artist Morten Traavik.
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Hannah Arendt as a refugee
Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the existential impossibility of escape are more relevant than ever, and make up the basic premise in a new documentary film about the philosopher, who herself fled to Paris at a time of political polarisation.
