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Document 8 and Africa in Motion

Document 8 and Africa in Motion

Two spirited local film festivals

22 Oct 2010

The term ‘human rights cinema’ may sound too much like hard work for the average cinemagoer. But for the last seven years Document, the Glasgow-based International Human Rights Film Festival, has been demonstrating that films about human rights simply…

Take One Action film festival showcases best in political cinema

Take One Action film festival showcases best in political cinema

Budrus, Nero’s Guests and Sweet Crude among highlights of 2010

23 Sep 2010

Take One Action! should have enough films in their 2010 programme to get the most politically slothful citizen socially activated. The film Budrus focuses on small actions leading to big results, with villagers in the little titular town taking things…

Julia Bacha's Budrus screens at Take One Action Film Festival

Julia Bacha's Budrus screens at Take One Action Film Festival

Middle East documentary

22 Sep 2010

Name Julia Bacha Born Rio de Janeiro, 1980. Background Bacha studied Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University. She worked as co-writer and editor on the 2004 multi award-winning documentary about Al Jazeera, Control Room…

Close to Home

(3 stars)21 May 2007

DRAMA Written and directed by a pair of female filmmakers, Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu, Close to Home has the distinction of being the first ever Israeli film to focus on the experiences of women in the country’s armed services. The rebellious Smadar…

Wael Shawky

Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 31 Mar-Sat 21 A

27 Mar 2007

VIDEO INSTALLATION Collective Gallery’s exhibition program resumes with a solo show of work by Egypt born Wael Shawky. Shawky’s work is multifarious but deals primarily with culture and religion, juxtaposing, comparing and contrasting one with the…

Avenge But One of My Two Eyes - DVD review

Avenge But One of My Two Eyes

(4 stars)29 Jan 2007

DOCUMENTARY Avi Mograbi’s tough-minded documentary on the horrors of today’s Israeli-Palestine conflict looks at events not from the point of view of Palestinian fanaticism and Israeli brutality, but chiefly from the long established fanaticism…

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