Lawfare and alternative facts are used to change the landscape. A Palestinian special effects man worked on his own family’s land, expropriated by the Israeli military and then rented to Hollywood film producers. Boycotts of Israeli companies need to make careful choices to avoid furthering the aims of their opponents.
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Dad’s Lullaby: community and consumerism
The fighting in Ukraine has greatly intensified since the film was made in 2019. Communal sharing is essential for families to deal with the issues that traumatise them. People need a space to tell their stories. Cosumer society encourages a passivity that needs to be overcome. Graham Douglas […]
Right-wing Soldier Monika and the trans dream maiden
Many young people find right-wing politics ‘cool’ today and marginal people caught between different digital bubbles find a new obstacle to being themselves. Making a film was a way to look into the personal and political story of someone changing their gender identity. It was a ‘cinema therapy’ for Monika and had a deep impact on everyone involved.
Testimonies, daily life and letters to Palestine
Its writer and director, Bolivian filmmaker Sergio Eguino, has said that the media and networks tend to see the victims of the Palestinian conflict as numbers. Jorge Petinaud Martínez The leitmotif: five Palestinians, living far from their homeland, narrate their experiences in the face of Israel’s escalating interference […]
Lesia Diak: The pity of war
Very few people want to be documented, especially when it comes to the larger social traumas of the separation of Ukrainian soldiers from their loved ones. It is not an anti-war film, – Ukraine has no choice but to resist – but it refuses to turn away from the effects of war on families at home.
















