The Arts Desk12h
theartsdesk Q&A: Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof on 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' - 'It became a question of self-respect'
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...
New Statesman11d
Why we should always expect the worst
The career of the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been largely sustained by prizes, awarded at festivals such as Cannes and Berlin, where his last film, There is No Evil, took the Golden Bear ...
Screen International4d
Indonesian director Mouly Surya on ‘This City Is A Battlefield’: “I was trying to push the boundaries”
Audiences will be getting a double dose of director Mouly Surya this year. The Indonesian filmmaker’s new feature The City Is ...
The Bay State Banner5d
The power of Black boycotts: Be intentional
Throughout history, Black communities have used economic boycotts as a powerful tool for resistance, empowerment and social change. Boycotts have served as a means to protest racial injustice, ...
Mouly Surya on Indonesian Period Thriller About Dutch Colonization ‘This City Is a Battlefield’ Closing Rotterdam: ‘It’s a Shared History’
It is quite an interesting choice for the largest film festival in the Netherlands to close with a film that explicitly denounces the violence of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia, but one can always ...
Variety19d
‘Where the Night Stands Still,’ a ‘Meditation on the Filipino Experience,’ Boarded by Alpha Violet Ahead of Berlin Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
“This film is a meditation on the Filipino experience ... and lingering wounds of a people shaped by both history and resistance.” “We were quickly impressed by the beauty of the black ...
Auburn Citizen3d
Lloyd: PFAs, emerging contaminants threaten drinking water in Finger Lakes
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of human-made chemicals that have been used for decades in a wide ...
The Financial Times10d
Where ‘woke’ went wrong
Shortly after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020, protesters’ signs read simply ... their ...
FOX8 Cleveland2d
19 Black trailblazers that may not have been in your history book
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...
ArtReview11d
Khaled Jarrar’s Palestinian Plot
If there’s one thing that Khaled Jarrar knows how to make, it’s the news. In 2014 the artist made international headlines ...