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The City and the City, directed by Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas, was shown in the Encounters section of the 72nd Berlin Film Festival. The directors return to the genocide of the Jewish community in Thessalonica, Greece. Nicknamed “the mother of Israel”, for several centuries Thessalonica was the home of a Sephardic Jewish diaspora. Until …
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After last year’s virtual edition, the 72nd Berlin Film Festival was once again a physical event. This year 18 feature films were in the official competition. The jury, chaired by American director Night Shyamalan, awarded the Golden Bear for Best Film to Spanish film-maker Carla Simón for Alcarràs. Alcarràs takes us to the heart of …
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Shown at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival the documentary Tantura directed by Israeli Alon Schwarz revives the controversy about a massacre in a Palestinian village, Tantura, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war – a crime allegedly committed by Israeli fighters from the Alexandroni brigade during the night of May 22nd to 23rd. In 1998 Israeli historian …
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The 5th Bouamari-Vautier Awards were held on Monday February 14th at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. This annual event, organized by the Association France-Algérie, is an opportunity to reward the best feature and documentary by new Algerian and Franco-Algerian talent. Ten films selected by the Association were screened by an 8-person jury, headed …
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The board of the French Directors’ Guild (Société des réalisateurs de films) has announced its current artistic director, Paolo Moretti, is leaving. This will be an opportunity to “rethink in depth the Directors’ Fortnight, its name, its unique qualities, its strategic and militant place.” In office since 2018, Paolo Moretti is preparing his last festival, …
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Concerned Citizen, Idan Haguel’s second feature film, had its world premiere in the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale. After his first film, Inertia (2017), also shown at the Berlin Film Festival, Idan Haguel returns with this black comedy. Idan Haguel is an Israeli director, journalist and screenwriter. With Concerned Citizen, he takes us into …
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The Venice Film Festival is organizing the 3rd “Classici fuori Mostra” (Permanent Festival of Restored Films). 14 international classic films, each carefully restored by the world’s finest film institutions, will be screened every Thursday from February 10th to May 26th 2022 at Venice’s Cinema Rossini. This year’s festival is organized in partnership with the City …
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