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  • RAPHAEL SCHUTZ: Being the Israeli Ambassador to Norway

    RAPHAEL SCHUTZ: Being the Israeli Ambassador to Norway

    The background for this interview were six, quite insistent, emails from the Israel Embassy in Norway, to end their Modern Times subscription, and have the remaining amount refunded. This led me to believe that the Embassy did not want to read the criticism directed at Israel in our columns. I wrote a Facebook comment about…

  • DRONES: A Little Piece of Norway

    DRONES: A Little Piece of Norway

    The threshold for killing someone is lower when you do not have to see those you kill. New leaks reveal the brutality of the US drone programme.

  • A one-state solution in the end

    PALESTINE: Israel faces two choices: either to realise the twenty-year-old fiction of a two-state solution – an isolated state for Jews alone – or, in the long term, to create a secular democratic state for both nations.

  • Refugees, aestheticized

    Refugees, aestheticized

    Can a refugee in a film become too aesthetic, losing his ethical relevance?

  • DIRECTOR BEATE ARNESTAD: The “Disease” of Humanity

    DIRECTOR BEATE ARNESTAD: The “Disease” of Humanity

    Beate Arnestad is proving to be one of Norway’s most interesting international filmmakers at the moment, writes Truls Lie. From addressing the plight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, she went on to track a major court case after the genocide in Rwanda. Her documentaries depict individuals under extreme pressure.

  • A lyrical and critical portrait of life among a marginalised people

    A lyrical and critical portrait of life among a marginalised people

    The title refers to a favourite Uyghur pastime, and, of course, is a good metaphor for their situation as a people.

  • Behind the curtains in a Norwegian home for the elderly

    Behind the curtains in a Norwegian home for the elderly

    Filmmaker Margreth Olin examines the care of the elderly in a Norwegian home where spouses are often made to stay in separate rooms

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