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☆ ‘The People’s Joker’ and the Perils of Playing With a Studio’s Copyright
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Eric Grode | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Vera Drew never received a cease-and-desist letter. She would like to be very clear on that point. Unless, that is, a filmmaker receives a letter from Warner Bros. “This letter was actually kind of complimentary, but it expressed their concern that the film infringed on their brand,” Drew said. I was like, ‘No, I got a passport for this!

Persons: Vera Drew, Drew, Megan Amram, Tim, Eric, Sacha Baron Cohen, “, Al Yankovic, ” Drew, ’ Organizations: Toronto, Warner Bros Locations: Los Angeles

☆ Filmmaker Draws Censors’ Wrath: ‘A Price I Have to Accept’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Li Yuan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

China’s film industry was operating under a planned economy when Wang Xiaoshuai graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1989. His directorial debut, “The Days,” about a despondent artist couple, was screened at film festivals in Europe in 1994. They barred Mr. Wang from working in the industry because he had screened “The Days” at foreign film festivals without their permission. Mr. Wang, like many other artists in China, found ways around the ban, and he went on to become one of the country’s most acclaimed directors as the restrictions loosened. When he screened his latest film, “Above the Dust,” at the Berlin International Film Festival, his company got a call from China’s censors.

Persons: Wang Xiaoshuai, Eager, Wang, “ Organizations: Beijing Film Academy, British Broadcasting Corporation, Berlin Locations: Europe, China

Learn more"The Zone of Interest," which took home the Academy Award for Best International Film this year, is coming to streaming soon. Below, we've put together everything you need to know about where to watch "The Zone of Interest," including what day it's scheduled to arrive to streaming. Written and directed by Jonathan Glazer, "The Zone of Interest" also won the 2024 Oscar for Best Sound. Where to watch The Zone of Interest in the US"The Zone of Interest" will be available to stream on Max starting April 5 in the US. Shop at MaxWhere to watch The Zone of Interest in the UKMax is available throughout the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Persons: we've, Rudolf Höss, Christian Friedel, Hedwig, Sandra Hüller, Jonathan Glazer, Oscar, It's, HBO Max, it's, Max, We'll, They're, ExpressVPN Organizations: Business, Best, Max, Apple, HBO, Warner Bros Locations: Latin America, Caribbean

ROME (AP) — For nearly six decades, the Tirelli atelier in Rome has woven itself into the fabric of Italian and international film history, earning the nickname the “Oscar tailor’s shop” for its contribution to cinematic costume design. Established in November 1964 by the late Umberto Tirelli, the shop has been behind 17 Academy Awards for best costume design. “Of course, the Oscar is not won by the tailor’s shop, the Oscar is won by the costume designer. But the tailor’s shop has the merit and the honor of having participated to make it win.”The atelier’s origins stem from Tirelli’s passion for collecting antique clothing. Photos You Should See View All 60 ImagesAfter the 1984 “Amadeus” design Oscar, Tirelli could have gone more international “because the market was immediately interested," Trapetti said.

Persons: Oscar tailor’s, Umberto Tirelli, Janty Yates, Dave Crossman, Ridley, Napoleon, ”, Dino Trappetti, Oscar, ” Trappetti, Tom Hulce, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Milos Forman’s “ Amadeus ”, Theodor Pistek, Michelle Pfeiffer's, Gabriella Pescucci, Amadeus, Tirelli, Trapetti, Trappetti, “ I’m Organizations: ROME, weekend's Locations: Rome, Prati, America, Formello

☆ Yuval Abraham receives death threats after calling for Gaza ceasefire at Berlin film festival
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Amy Cassidy | Chris Stern | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Israeli journalist and film director Yuval Abraham said he is receiving death threats and has canceled his flight home from the Berlin International Film Festival amid backlash to an acceptance speech in which he decried the “situation of apartheid” and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Abraham and his Palestinian co-director Basel Adra accepted the Best Documentary award for their film “No Other Land,” which chronicles evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank by Israeli authorities, on Saturday. Their speeches were met with accusations of antisemitism by high-level German and Israeli officials, including the mayor of Berlin and Israel’s Ambassador to Germany. “I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. I’m free to move where I want in this land; Basel is, like millions of Palestinians, locked in the occupied West Bank.”He continued: “We need to call for a ceasefire.

Persons: Yuval Abraham, Abraham, Basel Adra, “, ” Abraham, John Macdougall, Adra, ”, Kai Wegner, ” “, ” Ron Prosor, — Organizations: CNN, Berlin, West Bank, Israeli, Potsdamer, Getty, Abraham’s, Bank, Basel, ” Locations: Gaza, Berlin, Germany, Israel, Basel, ” “ Berlin

☆ ‘Mary Poppins’ gets a new age rating over discriminatory language
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A British film industry group has raised the age rating for the beloved children’s classic “Mary Poppins” over discriminatory language. “Mary Poppins (1964) includes two uses of the discriminatory term ‘hottentots,’” a BBFC spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. Even as “Mary Poppins” remains a treasured part of the cultural canon, the film has been criticized for trafficking in blackface. It’s partly in this context that the discriminatory language referenced by BBFC appears in the film. In recent years, the movie industry has grappled with how to handle racist or offensive content in classic films.

Persons: CNN —, Mary Poppins ”, “ Mary Poppins, ’ ”, “, Mary Poppins, ”, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Banks, Boom, hottentots, “ We’re, Shutterstock, Peter Pan ” Organizations: CNN, British, of, Disney, BBFC, US Library, Congress, National Film Registry, Banks Locations: British, Africa, South Africa, Namibia, Oxford

☆ Criticism of Israel at Berlin Film Festival Stirs Antisemitism Debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Alex Marshall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra walked onstage at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday night, they had come to talk about more than movies. Abraham and Adra, an Israeli and Palestinian filmmaking team, had just won the festival’s award for best documentary for “No Other Land,” a movie about Palestinian resistance to Israeli campaigns in the occupied territories. It was “very hard,” Adra said, to celebrate the award “when there are tens of thousands of my people being slaughtered and massacred by Israel in Gaza.”He called upon German lawmakers to “stop sending weapons to Israel,” before Abraham called for a cease-fire and an end to Israel’s occupation. The audience, which included the culture minister of Germany, Claudia Roth, applauded loudly, and there were whistles and cheers in the hall.

Persons: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Abraham, Adra, ” Adra, ”, Claudia Roth Organizations: Berlin Locations: Palestinian, Israel, Gaza

☆ ‘Dahomey,’ Documentary About Looted Artwork, Wins Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Thomas Rogers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The top prize at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival was given to “Dahomey,” a documentary by the French filmmaker Mati Diop about 26 looted artworks that were returned to Benin from France in 2021. The unconventional feature, narrated in part by the gravelly, imagined voice of one of the artworks, is a playful exploration of the legacy of colonialism and the interplay between history and identity in present-day Benin. It is Diop’s first feature since “Atlantics,” a drama about Senegalese migrants that won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. In Diop’s acceptance speech for the prize, known as the Golden Bear, she said that “Dahomey” was part of the “collapsing wall of silence” around the need to return artworks looted by colonial powers to their original owners. “We can either get rid of the past as an imprisoning burden,” she said, “or we can take responsibility for it.”

Persons: ”, Mati Diop, “, Dahomey ” Organizations: Prix, Cannes Film Locations: Dahomey, French, Benin, France

☆ In This Heroes’ Tale, Real People Risk Their Lives to Get to Europe
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the end of “Io Capitano” (“I Captain”), Matteo Garrone’s harrowing contender for best international film at next month’s Academy Awards, a map tracks the journey taken by the film’s two teenage protagonists: over 3,500 miles from Dakar, Senegal, to Sicily, via the scorching Nigerien desert, horrific Libyan prisons and a nerve-racking Mediterranean crossing aboard a rickety vessel. Such perilous voyages, taken each year by countless Africans seeking a new life in Europe, is “one of the great dramas of our times,” Garrone said in a recent interview, and “Io Capitano” is framed as an epic, modern-day Odyssey, with protagonists no less valiant than Homer’s hero. “It’s a journey that’s an archetype so that anyone can identify with it,” said Garrone, who is best known to international audiences for the hyper-realistic 2008 drama “Gomorrah” and his dark and fantastical “Pinocchio” (2019). “Io Capitano” is also, he said, a “document of contemporary history.” This month alone, over 2,000 people reached European shores by crossing the Mediterranean, while at least 74 died, bringing the number of people who have gone missing in that sea in the last decade to more than 29,000, according to the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations agency.

Persons: ”, Matteo Garrone’s, ” Garrone, “, Garrone Organizations: month’s, International Organization for Migration, United Locations: Dakar, Senegal, Sicily, Europe, United Nations

☆ At the Berlin Film Festival, Reconsidering the Power of Doubt
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Jessica Kiang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Doubt is fussy and forgetful, whereas certainty strides around, all action and achievement. As a film critic, swift, declarative certainty is a quality I’ve learned to aspire to. But this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, which runs through Sunday, has been buffeted outside and in by political turbulence and organizational shake-ups. And so perhaps because the event itself is experiencing such uncertain times, the films made me reconsider — actually, doubt — my dismissive stance on doubt. Doubt is etched on Cillian Murphy’s hollow, striking features in Tim Mielants’s grave and moving “Small Things Like These,” which opened the festival last week.

Persons: —, Tim Mielants’s, Claire Keegan —, Magdalene laundries, Mary, Emily Watson, Murphy’s Locations: New Ross, Ireland

☆ A Film Festival in the Back of a Taxi
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Bryn Stole | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Some of international cinema’s biggest names gathered on Tuesday night at the Berlin International Film Festival as the event honored Martin Scorsese with a lifetime achievement award. Irene Jaxtheimer, who runs a taxi company, passed around homemade popcorn. A generator outside the cab powered a modest television, a DVD player and a small electric heater. The unconventional screening, just outside a centerpiece event for one of Europe’s most prestigious film festivals, was part of the makeshift TaxiFilmFest. Running through Sunday, it is partly a protest over the miserable state of the taxi industry these days and partly a counterfestival to celebrate the taxi cab’s iconic place in the urban cultural landscape.

Persons: Martin Scorsese, Scorsese, Wim Wenders, ” Klaus Meier, Irene Jaxtheimer Organizations: Berlin Locations: Berlin

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the jury at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival pushed back on political questions as the festival kicked off on Thursday, seeking instead to shift the focus to the tough selection ahead for the best movie. ... We are having robust conversations.”Nyong'o is the Berlinale’s first Black jury president and said she felt greatly honored to lead this year’s jury. One question she could not avoid was about the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, which the organizers last week uninvited to the opening gala. Five AfD politicians had been expected to attend since members of all parties in Berlin’s state legislature are invited to events supported with public money. German director Christian Petzold appeared critical about the decision to uninvite the AfD politicians.

Persons: ”, Cillian Murphy, “ It’s, Lupita Nyong'o, ” Nyong'o, Nyong'o, Christian Petzold, Berlinale, Jasmine Trinca, Petzold, Mati Diop, Abderrahmane Sissako, emigrates, Trinca, Brady Corbet, Ann Hui, Albert Serra, Oksana Zabuzhko Organizations: BERLIN, Berlin, Kenyan, Germany Locations: Mexican, Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, Berlin’s, Germany, Italian, French, Senegalese, Dahomey, Benin, West Africa, Mauritian, Ivorian, China, Africa, Berlin

NEW YORK (AP) — Gushing after the New York Philharmonic performed Leonard Bernstein’s music, Bradley Cooper talked about creating the film “Maestro ″ in hopes of drawing more attention to the composer and conductor. They were joined by Carey Mulligan, who played Felicia Montealegre, the actor and wife of Bernstein. Nézet-Séguin, a 48-year-old Canadian who is music director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, served as a consultant to Cooper on conducting. Cooper, who is not Jewish, also faced scrutiny for wearing a prosthetic nose as part of his transformation into Bernstein, who was. What’s next for Cooper, a biopic of Herbert von Karajan, the iron-willed leading conductor of the second half of the 20th century?

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BERLIN (AP) — The 74th Berlin International Film Festival opens Thursday with the world premiere of “Small Things Like These” starring man of the moment Cillian Murphy. Festival directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, who will step down after this year, expressed their aim for “open dialogue” surrounding the war. The duo’s previous film, “Ballad of a White Cow,” premiered in competition in Berlin in 2021. Kenyan-Mexican actor Lupita Nyong’o will serve as the Berlinale’s first black jury president at this year’s festival. Isabelle Huppert will return to Berlin to collect her unclaimed lifetime achievement from 2022, when the French acting icon could not attend.

Persons: Cillian Murphy, Murphy, “ Oppenheimer, ”, “, Blinders, Tim Mielants, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley, Emily Watson, Magdalene laundries, Mariette Rissenbeek, Carlo Chatrian, ” It’s, haven’t, Ayo Tsalithaba, Suneil Sanzgiri, Maryam Moghaddam, Sanaeeha, Berlinale, AfD’s, Kristin Brinker, Lupita Nyong’o, Brady Corbet, Jasmine Trinca, Ann Hui, Christian Petzold, Albert Serra, Oksana Zabuzhko, Kristen Stewart, Adam Sandler, Stephen Fry, Lena Dunham, Marvel’s Sebastian Stan, Martin Scorsese, Golden Bear, Isabelle Huppert, Hong Sang Organizations: BERLIN, Berlin, West Bank, Palestinian, Germany, Kenyan Locations: Ireland, Gaza, Germany, Israeli, American, Israel, Tehran, Berlin, Berlin’s, AfD’s Berlin, Mexican, Ukrainian, Czech, Poland, French, South Korean

☆ Analysis-For Malaysian Filmmakers, Censorship Stifles Optimism After Overseas Glory
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +5 min

"This is a very good time ... where people around the world are really looking into Malaysian filmmakers. "Mentega Terbang" follows a teenage Muslim girl exploring different religions while dealing with grief. Online platforms are not covered by film censorship rules in Malaysia. Khairi and others involved in "Mentega Terbang" even received death threats at the time, media reports show. CENSORSHIPUnder Malaysian law, films intended for public viewing must be approved by the Film Censorship Board.

Persons: Oscar, Michelle Yeoh, Khairi Anwar, Malaysia's, Khairi, Badrul Hisham Ismail, Pagi Ke, Anwar Ibrahim's, Anwar, Zabidi Mohamed, Amir Muhammad, Brenda Danker, Danial Azhar, Rozanna Latiff, Himani Sarkar Organizations: Azhar KUALA LUMPUR, Reuters, Cannes, Cannes Film, Malay, Academy, Malaysian, Film, YouTube Locations: Azhar KUALA, Malaysia, Malaysian, Viu, Terengganu, Malay

☆ Glen Powell at Sundance: ‘I’m Buzzing Right Now, Man!’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It has to do with “Hit Man,” a comedy Powell co-wrote with the director Richard Linklater that casts him as a hapless teacher who must pose as an assassin for hire. I first saw it at the Venice Film Festival in September, where it proved so crowd-pleasing that the audience broke into applause midway through the movie. A week later at the Toronto International Film Festival, the response was also through the roof. But for months, Powell had only heard about all that secondhand. Since the Screen Actors Guild strike was still going strong during the fall tests, Powell wasn’t able to attend a premiere of “Hit Man” until it played Monday night at the Sundance Film Festival.

Persons: Glen Powell doesn’t, ”, Powell, Richard Linklater, Powell wasn’t Organizations: Venice Film, Toronto, Actors, Sundance Film Locations: Venice

☆ 3 big challenges facing Netflix as the streaming wars enter a brutal new phase
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Hollywood stakeholders and analysts alike have declared Netflix the winner of the streaming wars — but the celebration may be short-lived as streaming enters a new phase. Analysts can't say for sure how much more subscriber growth Netflix can add through its cheaper ad tier and password-sharing crackdown, though. Plus, Netflix is about to face big competition for ad dollars from Amazon, which will launch ads on Prime Video starting January 29. Also, Big Tech's ability to fund their streaming services indefinitely could keep subscription prices depressed for Netflix, along with everyone else, Bernstein noted. But now that the strikes are over, some analysts predict Netflix will face a bigger content bill going forward.

Persons: Scott Stuber, Forrester, Mike Proulx, Brian Wieser, Evercore, Peacock, Oscar, Ted Sarandos, Netflix isn't, Gen, Bernstein, Jason Bazinet Organizations: Netflix, Business, Disney, Macquarie Research, Paramount, Citigroup Locations: Canada, North America

Song’s quietly romantic film, starring Greta Lee and Teo Yoo as childhood friends who reconnect later in life, earned nominations for her direction, script and for both actors. “May December,” about an actress preparing to play a Mary Kay Letourneau-like role got nods for Natalie Portman, Charles Melton and screenwriter Samy Burch. MGM’s “American Fiction,” featuring Jeffrey Wright as a frustrated novelist, got recognition for Wright, Erika Alexander and Sterling K. Brown. Josh Welsh, the president of Film Independent, said the spirit awards look for films and shows that, “demonstrate the uniqueness of vision, original, provocative subject matter, economy of means and diversity, both on screen and off.”The Spirit Awards also recognize television series. Billie Eilish was also nominated for “Swarm.”Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant is hosting the show, which will take place on Feb. 25 in Santa Monica, California.

Persons: Song’s, Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, “, Mary Kay Letourneau, Natalie Portman, Charles Melton, Samy Burch, MGM’s, Jeffrey Wright, Wright, Erika Alexander, Sterling K, Brown . Jefferson, ”, ” Kelly Reichardt’s, Robert Altman, Michelle Williams, André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Amanda Plummer, Alexander Payne's “, Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Payne, Giamatti, Andrew Haigh, Ira Sachs, William Oldroyd, Eileen, Haynes, Song, “ Oppenheimer, Maestro ”, Lee, Yoo, Portman, Jessica Chastain, Monica, Judy Reyes, Andrew Scott, Franz Rogowski, Teyana Taylor, Noah Galvin, Anne Hathaway, Glenn Howerton, Marin Ireland, Catalina Saavedra, Ben Whishaw, Brown, Alexander, Marshawn Lynch, Sandra Hüller, Justine Triet’s “, Jonathan Glazer’s, Iceland’s, Wata, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Josh Welsh, Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Bella Ramsey, Murray Bartlett, Nick Offerman, Billie Eilish, Live’s Aidy Bryant Organizations: NFL, ”, Film, “, YouTube Locations: Hong, Melton, Randolph, Poland, Denmark, Santa Monica , California

☆ Cillian Murphy says 'Oppenheimer' came out the same day as 'Barbie' partly because Christopher Nolan is superstitious
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" and Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" were released on July 21. Cillian Murphy told Margot Robbie that Nolan was "determined" to have a summer release. Advertisement"Barbie" star Margot Robbie and "Oppenheimer" actor Cillian Murphy discussed the pop-culture phenomenon known as "Barbenheimer," and explained how filmmaker Christopher Nolan's superstition influenced the release date of his movie. Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer." Advertisement"That was a good instinct," Murphy told Robbie.

Persons: Greta Gerwig's, Christopher Nolan's, Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy, Margot Robbie, Nolan, Murphy, —, Robbie, Barbie, Robert Oppenheimer, Nolan's, Christopher Nolan, J, Christian Bale, Long, Mia, Jason Guerrasio, Nolan wasn't, Warner, Jaap Buitendijk, Chuck Roven, Roven Organizations: Service, Universal, San Francisco, Warner Bros Locations: Dunkirk

☆ Will Smith Will Revive 'I Am Legend' Character for Upcoming Sequel
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Will Smith is returning for the 'I Am Legend' sequel, despite being killed off in the original film. AdvertisementWill Smith has shared details about the sequel to "I Am Legend," including how his character, who dies in the original film, will be resurrected for the new thriller. "You have to be a real 'I Am Legend' buff, but in the first one, in the theatrical version, my character died." "I Am Legend" saw Smith take on the role of one of the only survivors after a virus decimates mankind. But it's a really, really cool concept, and he was a part of creating the idea," Smith said.

Persons: Will Smith, Michael B, Jordan, —, Smith, … I'm, virologist Robert Neville, Robert Neville, Smith —, hadn't Organizations: Service, Red Sea, Warner Bros ., Warner Bros, Entertainment Locations: Saudi Arabia, …

NEW YORK (AP) — Eddie Murphy has fond childhood memories of gathering with his family in Brooklyn and being wrapped in the wonder of the season as they watched classic holiday movies. Now, his Christmas wish is his new film, “Candy Cane Lane,” will create similar memories for others. The film was written by Kelley Younger, whose family grew up on Candy Cane Lane in El Segundo, California — a neighborhood known for competitive holiday decorating. "I love Christmas movies. I love Christmas music.

Persons: — Eddie Murphy, Candy Cane, ”, ” Murphy, “, Chris Carver, Murphy, who’s, Pepper, Jillian Bell, Carver, Tracee Ellis Ross, ” Ross, –, Ross, Carol, Chuckling, Thaddeus J, Mixson, Ken Marino, David Alan Grier, Nick Offerman, Robin Thede, Chris Redd, Kelley Younger, Reginald Hudlin, Hudlin, Kid ’, ’, Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Martin Lawrence, Grier, Axel Foley, we’ve, Gary Gerard Hamilton Organizations: “, Party, National, Beverly Hills, Associated Press Locations: Brooklyn, El Segundo , California, Hollywood, @GaryGHamilton

After attempting to scroll back through, he completed his speech before returning to read from his phone. “The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out,” De Niro said. Lily Gladstone, who stars in the film opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, won for best lead performance — though not for that performance. Your lives will be better for it.”The Gotham Awards, now in their 33rd year, leapfrog most of the major ceremonies that lead up to the Academy Awards. The year before that, Gotham winner “The Lost Daughter” faded on the campaign trail, but 2020-winner “Nomadland” went the distance to the Academy Awards.

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The naive pair — unknowns whom Garrone found and cast in Senegal — witness mass death in the Sahara, scams and torture beyond their expectations. Italian Premier Georgia Meloni has called migration the biggest challenge of her first year in office. The film shows the two cousins Seydou and Moussa leaving their home without alerting their parents or knowing what to expect. The film's subject is familiar to those who follow migration news in Europe and North Africa. Garrone said he relied heavily on migrants in Rabat and Casablanca who worked on the film as extras.

Persons: Matteo Garrone, Seydou, Moussa, Garrone, Pope Francis, Georgia Meloni, ”, Mamadou Kouassi, ” Kouassi, hasn't, who've, “ Organizations: United Nations, Georgia, Associated Press, West, Libyan Locations: MARRAKECH, Morocco, Italian, Europe, Marrakech, Dakar, Niger, Libya, Italy, Senegal, Albania, Tunisia, Ivorian, Caserta, Libyan, North Africa, Casablanca, Erfoud, Rabat

“Bye Bye Tiberias” first premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, more than a month before the start of the latest Israel-Hamas war, sparked by the militant group's deadly incursion into Israel on Oct. 7. It is the only Palestinian film in competition in Marrakech, where festival organizers have, unlike past years, not held screenings in a popular square that has seen protests against the war. Soualem declined to answer a question about how today's war affected reactions to her film. That year, the British ordered the family to leave their home in Tiberias, a city on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. “These images are the treasure of my memory that I don’t want to fade,” says Soualem, who narrates the documentary.

Persons: Hiam Abbass, “, ”, Lina Soualem's, Abbass, ” “, ” splices, Nemat, Soualem, Soualem's, Deir Hanna, ” Abbass, ” Soualem Organizations: year's, Venice, Associated Press, West Bank, British, Palestinian National Theatre Locations: MARRAKECH, Morocco, ”, Marrakech, Israel, Gaza, Soualem, Europe, United States, Algeria, North Africa, France, Tiberias, Deir Hanna, Galilee, Syria, Palestinian, “

☆ Rosalynn Carter repose: Former first lady’s motorcade will route from wreath-laying ceremony to Carter Presidential Center
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Christina Maxouris | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

In May, the Carter Center said Rosalynn Carter had dementia. The motorcade will stop for a wreath-laying ceremony at Rosalynn Carter’s alma mater, Georgia Southwestern State University, before making its way to Atlanta. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter poses for a portrait in New York in 2011. Alice S. Hall/NBCUniversal/Getty Images) Rosalynn gets a kiss from her husband after they were awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom in 1999. “Thank you all for joining us in celebrating what a treasure she was, not only to us, but to all humanity.”The Carter Center said in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Carter Center Mental Health Program or the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers.

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