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In competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, this critically acclaimed animated feature delves into the repressed memory of director Ari Folman during his time in the Israeli Army fighting in the Lebanon War. Our collective amnesia of Folman's real life horror is gradually exposed, through graphic novel-esque animation, to reveal a deeply personal and at times harrowing portrait of the futility of war.Beginning with the riddle of his memory loss and recurring nightmares, Ari interviews his original comrades in a quest to piece together his latent traumatic past. Propelled by a soundtrack featuring some of the best in 80s ...more
As part of Frontline's continuing successful docdays partnership with Curzon Cinemas we are pleased to present Rex Bloomstein's new work, An Independent Mind. Here, the director tackles our most basic right - freedom of speech - and assesses how far individuals in different countries will go in order to preserve it."Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." - Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human RightsDirector's Statement"I wanted this to be as global ...more
Based on the book by Philip Gourevitch, Standard Operating Procedure is an Errol Morris film about the abuse of prisoners at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison.Critic, Roger Ebert has said, "After twenty years of reviewing films, I haven't found another filmmaker who intrigues me more...Errol Morris is like a magician, and as great a filmmaker as Hitchcock or Fellini."Morris' previous films include The Fog of War (2003) and Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr (1999)Length: 116 minsYear: 2008 ...more
In Invisibles, five directors (Wim Wenders, Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Isabel Coixet, Mariano Barroso and Javier Corcuera) have come together to give voice to the people affected by five humanitarian crises which have remained invisible to the world's media.It stands as a portrait of the many millions who remain forgotten across the globe, from conflict zones to countries experiencing health crises on huge scales. A reminder that behind the politics and hype lie real human stories.Invisibles will be followed by a discussion on how the mainstream media has handled the issue of humanitarian crises in developing nations with a panel ...more
The role of the frontline journalist is under scrutiny as never before. Reporters are regularly being singled out and killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and elsewhere. In other countries - Burma, Zimbabwe and Sudan, for example - intolerant regimes have simply banned the foreign media in a bid to keep the bad news from getting out. What should the role of the frontline journalist be? Is the best way to tell these stories going undercover, or training local journalists?We ask whether there is still a role for frontline reporting; or has the job simply become too dangerous?The Frontline Club's second ...more
Focusing on the legendary African singer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti and his son Femi, Suffering and Smiling depicts the father-and-son struggle to raise awareness about Nigeria.In it they ask poignantly why the world's most resource-rich continent has the poorest people.Only two months ago, conflict flared in the Niger Delta with militant groups declaring total war on foreign oil companies.Nigeria is Africa's leading oil exporter and the fifth-largest source of US oil imports, but despite its mineral wealth, most Nigerians live in abject poverty. Following Nigeria's independence in 1960, Fela began to use his songs to speak out against the ...more
Deliver Us From Evil is the story of Father Oliver O'Grady, the most notorious paedophile in the history of the modern Catholic Church.O'Grady used his charm and authority to violate dozens of faithful Catholic families across Northern California for more than two decades.Over the years, O'Grady successfully exploited mothers and fathers in order to gain access to their children. Church documents prove that since 1973, he carried out this abuse with the full knowledge of his superiors. Deliver Us From Evil filmmaker, Amy Berg tracked down Father O'Grady and persuaded him to participate in the making of her film. O'Grady's ...more
The Frontline Club's inaugural Kyiv event examines whether the Orange Revolution liberalised the Ukrainian media.The discussion will be moderated by Olexiy Solohubenko - Executive Editor, Europe and American Region at the
BBC World Service. On his panel are:Serhiy Kichihin - editor-in-chief of Newspaper 2000I (TBC)Natalia Kondratuik - Kyiv Buereau Chief of TRK Ukraine TVNatalia Ligacheva - editor-in-chief of Telekritika magazineYulia Mostova - deputy editor-in-chief of Dzerkalo Tyzhnya newspaper (TBC)Yehor Sobolev - broadcaster, 5 KanalThe event will take place at the Goethe Institut Conference Hall (vul. Voloska 12/4, Podil, Kyiv 04070)The event will be held in Ukrainian with English translation. N.B.The ...more
Belonging is the story of what happens when ordinary people get caught up in extraordinary circumstances. Challenging common stereotypes of a displaced people, Belonging tells the story of deep-rooted attachment to one's land, the loss of an ancestral home, and the experience of being made a refugeeThe Arab/Israeli wars of 1948 and 1967 changed the lives of Palestinian families forever, this film recounts the story of one of those families. As told by two generations of surviving familymembers, this is not a story of blame and bitterness. It is in fact a human story, one of displacement and loss. ...more
TV Iraqi StyleDir. Paul Eedle. UK / Iraq 2006. 45mins.For 20 years under Saddam Hussein television output in Iraq was strictly controlled, programmes heavily censored and satellite TV banned.With Saddam's fall the mediascape has changed dramatically: gone are the propaganda broadcasts of old times, replaced with Iraqi soap operas, game shows and reality TV. TV audiences in Iraq are being treated to a veritable feast of viewing choices. There has been an explosion in satellite TV ownership and homegrown Iraqi stations are flourishing. Viewing figures are booming, due to night curfews and a population too afraid to leave their homes: ...more