Beyond Emilia Pérez: 5 Mexican films that do justice to victims of the drug cartels
Those seeking to understand the suffering caused by enforced disappearances in Mexico should watch these five films.
The Remarkable Prison Breakout Film That Featured a Man Who Actually Escaped a Real Prison
Claude is in prison for attempting to murder his wife, which he claims was an accident, but could nevertheless keep him ...
Netflix’s brutal new prison thriller just crashed the top 10 — here’s why it should be your next binge-watch
Juan (Diego Calva) is a human rights lawyer, working hard for his clients and with a heavily pregnant wife at home. Visiting an overcrowded prison to meet with a prisoner he’s set to defend in an ...
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Mohammad Rasoulof: Prison, politics and his Oscar-nominated film
Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to discuss the UK release of The Seed of the Sacred Fig, made in secret, and his battle with ...
‘Paint Me a Road Out of Here’: Faith Ringgold’s Gift to Prisoners
In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided ...
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Movie Talk | Film from former Chico resident looks at ‘the world’s first terrorist rehabilitation center’
When filmmaker Meg Smaker was editing her documentary film “The Unredacted,” she thought about a quote from Russian novelist ...
A mass hunger strike transformed solitary confinement in California prisons. This documentary captures the fight
In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...