All tagged Politics
Israel has blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza as it demands Hamas agree to a US plan for a ceasefire extension. Just hours later, ‘No Other Land’ by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal won the Oscar for Best Feature Documentary at the 97th edition of the Academy Awards. The filmmakers criticised US foreign policy and asked that the international community act.
African Apocalypse is a harrowing journey through the colonial past and its inevitable hangover in present-day Niger, West Africa. Femi Nylander traces the steps of a little known French captain, Paul Voulet, who unleashed wanton terror on several communities along the Niger-Nigeria border, leaving a trail of dead bodies in the wake of his unclear quest.
We’re teaming up with our favourite festival news platform Film Fest Report, to bring you a top 10 of our favourite short films available on the Selects platform.
For our first episode of “What Are You Watching?” we met Matt, who had his mind blown by the ‘Zeitgeist’ movies as a kid, was inspired by the cult film ‘American Movie’ and reckons ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’, a film about product placement that is funded by product placement, is the most “WTF” doc he’s ever seen.
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Explore the depths of rural Egypt to discover the mystical Sufi Mawlid celebrations, traditional festivals where locals gather to experience divine ecstasy through chanting, dancing and shared experience. Director Yasmin Kamal gives us some background to this unique film, shot in a vérité style to give us an experiential viewing that is sure to overload the senses and make you question what is real.
At this year's International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), we sat down with directors Rica Saito and Caio Castor to discuss their short film “Batalha” or “Battle”.
Every year, more than 100 million animals are killed in U.S. laboratories. However, in making his latest short film Test Subjects, BAFTA-winning director Alex Lockwood (73 Cows) says he was “shocked to find that animal testing when it comes to human health is 95 percent ineffective”. You can currently watch “Test Subjects” online for free!
With Britain heading to the polls next week, a revelatory new film by BAFTA-winner John Pilger, lifts the lid on the NHS’ covert privatisation in the past few years. Find out where you can watch it.
Starting life as a leafleting campaign to unionise the cleaners, the film snowballed into a four-year project, resulting in a 90 minute piece that in 1975 at its time of release, baffled its subjects.
Every day, hundreds of millions of tweets, Instagram posts, Facebook updates and Youtube uploads make their way online. Inevitably, a significant portion of these uploads will be reported for violating a platform’s rules. But what happens next? Who decides what should be deleted?
Few films following political upheaval successfully convey the conflicting emotions of their leaders as they struggle for empowerment and justice, but Chris Kelly’s Bafta-nominated ‘A Cambodian Spring’ is such a potent mixture of visual and auditive artistry that no viewer can possibly be left unmoved.
In 2017, Hull was named the UK’s City of Culture and filmmaker Sean McAllister returned in order to direct the opening ceremony and in the process find out if could have any impact on a working class city that has suffered blow after economic blow in the past few decades.
In just 93 days, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution.
