Tag: films

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it

The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you Stuart Heritage The biggest, and possibly only, failure of Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is that the circumstances of its broadcast threaten to overshadow its content. A brief recap: this… Read More Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it

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Dunkirk Veteran Weeps At Film Premiere: ‘It Was Just Like I Was There Again’

First posted July 24, 2017 Walking out of a Calgary, Canada, movie theater on Friday, where he’d just watched the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s highly acclaimed “Dunkirk,” 97-year-old war veteran Ken Sturdy was seen wiping tears from his eyes. “I never thought I’d see that again,” an emotional Sturdy, dressed in a jacket adorned with war… Read More Dunkirk Veteran Weeps At Film Premiere: ‘It Was Just Like I Was There Again’

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A Glimpse: award-winning short film about the price of love

A blossoming relationship unfolds when two strangers have a chance encounter in a London cafe. Winner: Best Short Film – Florence Film Awards 2020 Rachel Shenton stars in this award-winning short film about the price of love ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times. By Marcus Markou “Papa old-age home se bhaag gaye. Mrs Sharma ke saath”… Read More A Glimpse: award-winning short film about the price of love

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Teenage boys are in crisis. The message of ‘Adolescence’

Harmeet Kaur The world for kids today looks a lot different than it did for their parents. A scene from the hit Netflix series “Adolescence” captures just how vast that difference is. In the show’s second episode, Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe (Ashley Walters) is at a secondary school to investigate why 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen… Read More Teenage boys are in crisis. The message of ‘Adolescence’

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500 Programme-Makers Condemn Censorship, Racism After BBC Pulls Gaza Documentary

By Middle East Monitor Gary Lineker, Khalid Abdalla, Anita Rani and Miriam Margolyes have joined over 500 film, TV and media workers in condemning censorship and racism after the BBC pulled a documentary about children’s lives in Gaza. The media professionals, including nine BBC staff, sent a letter to the broadcaster’s Director-General Tim Davie, Chair of the Board Samir Shah, Chief Content… Read More 500 Programme-Makers Condemn Censorship, Racism After BBC Pulls Gaza Documentary

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All That’s Left of You review – deeply moving epic of Palestinian intergenerational trauma

Cherien Dabis’s drama, spanning nearly 75 years in one Palestinian family, is a heart-wrenching, if sometimes blunt, portrait of displacement… The framing for this Arabic-language family saga, spanning from 1948 to the near-present, evinces the film’s primary modes – lived-in, propulsive, multifaceted drama with a fraught, ardent sense of place, and heart-on-its-sleeve, direct plea for… Read More All That’s Left of You review – deeply moving epic of Palestinian intergenerational trauma

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‘The whole foundation is rocking’: inside the explosive film about the investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu

The Bibi Files contains leaked footage of the Israeli PM being interrogated by police over allegations of corruption – and argues that these are partly why he has taken the region into the abyss. We meet the journalist behind it Julian Borger The Bibi Files, a new documentary, begins with its eponymous antihero, Benjamin Netanyahu, being… Read More ‘The whole foundation is rocking’: inside the explosive film about the investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu

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