cinema

Who’s calling cut on Finnish film?  

How dwindling grants and a war over who deserves them are threatening Finnish cinema Trouble is afoot in the Finnish Film industry. A recent investigation in Long Play by Kalle...

Where Kurdish cinema finds a home

How film-making and film festivals in Europe have become an engine and a focal point for Kurdish identity and solidarity There is (as yet) no state of Kurdistan. But in...

Yakutsk: Soft communal resistance between talks, ghosts and fake Labubus

The frost arrived early, foreshadowing the quiet end to public education. Resistance here isn't shouted; it's whispered through counterfeit Labubu toys and the wry irony of survivalist memes....

How do we understand the Lebanese “Catastrophe”?

A filmmaker grapples with how to represent Lebanon’s endless collapse In this sweeping and introspective review, Muhammad Omar Janadi reflects on the layered attempts of three recent Lebanese documentaries to...

Culture Behind Bars

On the margins of Tunisia’s largest film festival, a journalist looks at the challenges to an ongoing experiment in the country’s prisons December 2024 in Tunis, Cité de Culture: “The...

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