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fromwww.aljazeera.com
5 days ago

Arundhati Roy shocked' by jury's Gaza remarks, quits Berlin film festival

Wim Wenders said filmmakers must stay out of politics; Arundhati Roy withdrew from the Berlinale, called Gaza a genocide and accused supportive governments of complicity.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The arts of war: can Europe's artists embrace the idea of armed pacifism'?

an Act of Killing-style re-enactment of the 1919 conquest of the Adriatic city of what is now Rijeka by a rag-tag army assembled by the proto-fascist dandy-poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. It was precisely the kind of quirky cinematic gem that the European film awards should be there to champion: a film ignored by the main festivals, about an overlooked but relevant episode in history.
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