On stage for the first time at five years old standing in for his mother when she was ill. From this experience, he discovered not just the way to earn a lifelong living, but the way to fame. Ibis Frade He was 20 years old when he created […]
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From Art Cinema to Iranian execution list
“Religion overcasts on Iran’s sky like an octopus and people are controlled like stitch dolls, if anybody speaks something athwart is condemned to execution and easily done so”, says this Iranian independent film maker. Shanta Sultana The melancholy director, a campaigner for women’s right and secular democracy in […]
Human rights on the big screen
The determination and courage of people to stand up for their freedom and rights is the driving force behind the films that will be shown at the 23rd edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London. This year’s programme spotlights the risks taken by land defenders, the […]
Miners’ strikes in the UK on film
The Scottish producer Owen Gower talked about his film “Still the enemy within”. His first documentary film as a director was on the miners’ strikes that ravaged the country years ago. Fernando Marín Gascón “We knew people who had lived through the strikes themselves, with experiences that had […]
Portugal, the forgotten memories of colonialism
Debunking the belief that the Portuguese were more benign colonizers than the Spanish in South America, Ariel de Bigault points out that Brazil is one of the few countries that was totally based on slavery. Trafficking: tearing people out of their homelands to force them to work in another continent was invented by the Portuguese.
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