Charles_Soebarta@Berlin DocuFest
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Co-founder of the International Berlin documentary festival. www.berlindocufest.org.
“We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty,’” Raphaël Glucksmann, French member of the European Parliament.
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White House says it will not return the Statue of Liberty to France
A French politician said the U.S. no longer deserved the legendary monument.
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March 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
“We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty,’” Raphaël Glucksmann, French member of the European Parliament.
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Breathless (À bout de souffle), was released 65 years ago this month.
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'Conventions were exploded to make something with the remains': Jean-Luc Godard on the film that changed cinema
Stylish and experimental, Breathless heralded a new era of film-making when it was released 65 years ago. In 1964, its director told the BBC why he broke every rule he could.
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March 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Breathless (À bout de souffle), was released 65 years ago this month.
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The mayor of Miami Beach in Florida has threatened to terminate the lease of a local arthouse cinema in retaliation for screening documentary Oscar winner No Other Land.
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Miami Beach mayor wants to end lease of theater that screened Israeli-Palestinian documentary
The mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, wants to terminate a lease and cut financial support for an independent film theater that screened “No Other Land,” describing the Oscar-winning documentary about th...
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March 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The mayor of Miami Beach in Florida has threatened to terminate the lease of a local arthouse cinema in retaliation for screening documentary Oscar winner No Other Land.
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The Brutalist Scale Model
A 1:500 scale replica of The Margaret Lee Van Buren Center for Creation and Activity, as seen in Brady Corbet’s 10x Academy Award-nominated The Brutalist. The model can be deconstructed into three par...
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March 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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According to estimates in 2018, the collection is worth as much as $3bn.
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The treasure trove of art worth billions 'hidden' in Tehran
Masterpieces by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh feature in the collection in Iran's capital.
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March 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
According to estimates in 2018, the collection is worth as much as $3bn.
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Sally Mann Photos Seized from Texas Museum Following Official Complaint.
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Photographs Seized Amid Intimidation Against Forth Worth Museum — ARC
Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) strongly condemned the reported seizure by Texas authorities on Monday of Sally Mann’s photographs from the Diaries of Home exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort...
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March 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Sally Mann Photos Seized from Texas Museum Following Official Complaint.
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Liu Jiakun, the founder of Jiakun Architects, was announced as the 54th laureate of the prestigious architecture award today in recognition of his buildings that "celebrate the everyday lives of people".
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Eleven key projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Liu Jiakun
Following the news that Liu Jiakun has won this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, we round up 11 notable projects from the Chinese architect's four-decade-long career.
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March 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Liu Jiakun, the founder of Jiakun Architects, was announced as the 54th laureate of the prestigious architecture award today in recognition of his buildings that "celebrate the everyday lives of people".
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Fifty years on, Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has lost none of its power.
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: 50 years on Jack Nicholson’s greatest performance is as fresh as ever
McMurphy becomes an unlikely leader to the asylum patients, helping them to discover self-belief and confidence.
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March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Fifty years on, Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has lost none of its power.
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“We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people”. Basel Adra, director No Other Land.
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Israeli-Palestinian film No Other Land wins Oscar for best documentary
The collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers triumphed over four other documentaries.
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March 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
“We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people”. Basel Adra, director No Other Land.
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Monuments to the masses.
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Brutalism – the architectural style that dared to summon a new world from the ashes of World War II
Its staggering forms made monuments out of ordinary places frequented by ordinary people.
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March 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Monuments to the masses.
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After first winning the Berlinale Documentary Award and the Audience Award at Berlin now over a year ago, “No Other Land” has sat without distribution from U.S. buyers.
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‘A chilling effect’: is Hollywood too scared to touch hot-button documentaries?
This Sunday could see West Bank-set documentary No Other Land win an Oscar but it remains without US distribution, one of many challenging films facing problems
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March 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
After first winning the Berlinale Documentary Award and the Audience Award at Berlin now over a year ago, “No Other Land” has sat without distribution from U.S. buyers.
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At Letters Live at Women of the World Festival, Southbank Centre in March 2020, Olivia Colman read this hilarious letter.
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Olivia Colman reads a letter responding to an unsolicited penis photograph
YouTube video by Letters Live
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March 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
At Letters Live at Women of the World Festival, Southbank Centre in March 2020, Olivia Colman read this hilarious letter.
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Why you shouldn't take the Oscars seriously. Apocalypsy Now loosing over Kramer vs. Kramer???
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20 Times the Oscars Got It Wrong
Yes, we're still talking about 'Crash' winning the best picture over 'Brokeback Mountain,' but we also can't get over snubs for 'Selena,' 'The Lego Movie,' 'Hoop Dreams,' 'L.A. Confidential' and more....
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March 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Why you shouldn't take the Oscars seriously. Apocalypsy Now loosing over Kramer vs. Kramer???
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Khartoum is an important document , but I ask myself: how far can you go as a documentary film maker? Is it right to ask two small children to re-enact civil war atrocities they witnessed, to ask them about the mutilated bodies they saw? Was there supervision on set?
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Sundance 2025 | KHARTOUM (World Cinema Documentary) | First Clip 1
YouTube video by Film Fest Report
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February 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Khartoum is an important document , but I ask myself: how far can you go as a documentary film maker? Is it right to ask two small children to re-enact civil war atrocities they witnessed, to ask them about the mutilated bodies they saw? Was there supervision on set?
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Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, invites us into a single day in 1974 with groundbreaking queer photographer Peter Hujar. Set entirely in one room, the film re-creates the conversation between Hujar and Rosenkrantz, recorded on audio tape nearly fifty years ago.
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The Best Film at Sundance Is Just Two People Talking
Ira Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, starts off as an elevation of the quotidian but transforms into something more reflective.
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February 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, invites us into a single day in 1974 with groundbreaking queer photographer Peter Hujar. Set entirely in one room, the film re-creates the conversation between Hujar and Rosenkrantz, recorded on audio tape nearly fifty years ago.
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Resistance, curated by Steve McQueen.
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Resistance: How Protest Shaped Britain & Photography Shaped Protest | On Now At Turner Contemporary
YouTube video by Turner Contemporary
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February 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Resistance, curated by Steve McQueen.
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Berlinale 2025 round up, 2 more exhausting days to go, but loving every single minute.
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Berlin film festival 2025 roundup – a new boss, a flawless fairytale and Ethan Hawke’s finest hour
At a snowy Berlinale, against a backdrop of political divisions, this year’s standouts include Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower, Richard Linklater’s Broadway biopic of Lorenz Hart, and intensely ...
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February 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Berlinale 2025 round up, 2 more exhausting days to go, but loving every single minute.
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Germany’s culture of Holocaust remembrance is stifling the free speech of other artists.
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Watching ‘Shoah’ in Berlin, 80 Years After Auschwitz
A commemorative screening of the monumental documentary came as some artists are questioning whether Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture stifles free speech.
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February 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Germany’s culture of Holocaust remembrance is stifling the free speech of other artists.
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CPH:DOX’s Artistic Director, Niklas Engstrøm:
“Under the theme Right Here, Right Now, this year’s festival places a strong focus on rights in their broadest sense: human rights, civil rights, international law, and even animal rights.”
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“Under the theme Right Here, Right Now, this year’s festival places a strong focus on rights in their broadest sense: human rights, civil rights, international law, and even animal rights.”
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Ai Weiwei and Eyal Weizman attend CPH:DOX to highlight rights issues - CPH:DOX
When CPH:DOX takes place from March 19-30, it will feature visits from two internationally acclaimed figures who, from their respective artistic perspectives, will help shine a light on this year’s ma...
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February 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
CPH:DOX’s Artistic Director, Niklas Engstrøm:
“Under the theme Right Here, Right Now, this year’s festival places a strong focus on rights in their broadest sense: human rights, civil rights, international law, and even animal rights.”
cphdox.dk/ai-weiwei-an...
“Under the theme Right Here, Right Now, this year’s festival places a strong focus on rights in their broadest sense: human rights, civil rights, international law, and even animal rights.”
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The directors of Berlinale winner, My Favourite Cake will be in an Iranian court, 1 March, the charges: “production, distribution and duplication of a film with obscene content"
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February 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The directors of Berlinale winner, My Favourite Cake will be in an Iranian court, 1 March, the charges: “production, distribution and duplication of a film with obscene content"
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'Scars of a Putsch'. The military coup of September 12, 1980 abruptly ended the dream of a democracy in Turkey. Abidin, the director’s husband, a Turkish revolutionary in the 1970s was hit by 7 bullets and taken by a fascist militia.
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"Scars of a Putsch" | Trailer | Berlinale 2025
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February 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
'Scars of a Putsch'. The military coup of September 12, 1980 abruptly ended the dream of a democracy in Turkey. Abidin, the director’s husband, a Turkish revolutionary in the 1970s was hit by 7 bullets and taken by a fascist militia.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUVK...
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On 19 February 2020, neo-nazi Tobias, murdered 9 fellow Germans in the city of Hanau. Their names: Gökhan, Sedat, Said, Mercedes, Hamza, Vili, Fatih, Ferhat and Kaloyan. This is a testimonial about a failing justice system, and a police force with extreme right sympathies.
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Berlinale: 'Das Deutsche Volk' gives voice to Hanau victims – DW – 02/19/2025
Five years after one of the deadliest racially motivated attacks in Germany, a new documentary film follows the victims' families and their search for answers.
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February 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
On 19 February 2020, neo-nazi Tobias, murdered 9 fellow Germans in the city of Hanau. Their names: Gökhan, Sedat, Said, Mercedes, Hamza, Vili, Fatih, Ferhat and Kaloyan. This is a testimonial about a failing justice system, and a police force with extreme right sympathies.
www.dw.com/en/berlinale...
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JFK helped make a movie about the military trying to overthrow a liberal president. But before it premiered, he was assassinated.
JFK Wanted You to Watch This Movie Before He Was Assassinated
The president had a hand in the making of a Cold War blockbuster.
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February 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
JFK helped make a movie about the military trying to overthrow a liberal president. But before it premiered, he was assassinated.
In ‘Dreamers’, Isio, a Nigerian migrant detained at an asylum removal centre, is strugling for a way out, a film full of love and hope, that questions forced deportations, and made me realise how very precious freedom is.
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Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor On Making Her Directorial Debut With Berlinale Asylum Drama ‘Dreamers’ — First Look Clip
Emily Morgan ('I Am Not a Witch') produced the film.
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February 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
In ‘Dreamers’, Isio, a Nigerian migrant detained at an asylum removal centre, is strugling for a way out, a film full of love and hope, that questions forced deportations, and made me realise how very precious freedom is.
deadline.com/2025/02/joy-...
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A soccer club located next to Auschwitsch-Birkenau, their club anthem ‘this is your last stop!’, Polish rappers singing about Zyklon B, a psychiatric hospital once part of an extermination camp, ‘Bedrock’. A documentary that hit me in the stomach.
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www.filmoptioninternational.com/bedrock
Bedrock | A film by Kinga Michalska — Filmoption International
Bedrock is a psychological journey across today’s Poland that weaves together stories of Poles living on Holocaust sites. Through a series of intimate encounters, this poetic film looks at the unsettl...
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February 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A soccer club located next to Auschwitsch-Birkenau, their club anthem ‘this is your last stop!’, Polish rappers singing about Zyklon B, a psychiatric hospital once part of an extermination camp, ‘Bedrock’. A documentary that hit me in the stomach.
www.filmoptioninternational.com/bedrock
www.filmoptioninternational.com/bedrock