It might have been just another classic World War II tragedy, had the director’s vision been more complacent, or his fans stricter sticklers for history, but Quentin Tarantino has always been a rebel. Fausto Triana “Inglorious bastards” marks a break in the dark Nazi chapters of the dramatic […]
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“Whatever the truth is, it’s better than a lie”
Rodrigo Vázquez has risked his life in Latin America and Gaza filming warzones and humanising people that the mainstream media has reduced to animals and terrorists. The director’s new feature-length Al Jazeera film in his native Argentina about a child that was disappeared during the dictatorship of 1986-73 comes out later this year.
Rafael Barrett’s Paraguayan sorrow
The voice of Rafael Barrett’s is as needed now as it was in the aftermath of what at the time he rightly called “history’s most merciless war”. Sean Sheehan He was referring to the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-70) – resulting in the death of half the […]
South America before colonization
The continent that is South America had been culturally alive for 14,000 years before Europeans arrived, from nomadic hunting and gathering groups to the multinational, quasi-imperialistic state of the Incas. Sean Sheehan Ancient cultures are never fully recoverable but where Homer left us two major texts to puzzle […]
The art of caricature: human rights and democracy
Marilena Nardi refuses to seek visibility at any cost or cater to audience approval. She talks about her independent approach to cartooning and the importance of addressing global issues, such as the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran. As an artist, she believes that freedom of expression is one of the most important values that we must all defend.
















