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Art, social justice & activism: Dispatches from Cannes 2018
Social critiques are the unifying factor in this dispatch. From lesbians in Madrid, to pregnancy outside of marriage in Casablanca, to being black in white America, the following three films are...
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Inside the teen trans ballerina film that rocked Cannes
The 26-year-old Belgian director Lukas Dhont has been living with Girl since 2009 when he first read the story of Nora: a girl born in the body of a boy, but still pursuing the ambition of being a...
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Unlike at more sprawling festivals (like Berlin or London), the main screenings at Cannes happen along a single stretch of coastally-situated road, the Boulevard De La Croisette. The Palais des...
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Inside Diamantino, this year’s strangest political satire
Diamantino is the debut feature from Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, a Portuguese-American double-act, previously best-known for their experimental queer shorts. The film’s world premiere, taking...
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The filmmaker skewering the West’s obsession with money
Lauren Greenfield understands the power of privilege. The Boston-born, Harvard educated daughter of two Harvard graduates is one of contemporary photography’s most in-demand talents. For the past...
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What films to catch at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest
One of the largest and most significant celebrations of non-fiction filmmaking in Europe, the 25th edition of acclaimed documentary film festival Sheffield Doc/Fest returns to South Yorkshire from June...
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The mind behind Flowers – the ‘comedy with a mental illness’
On a damp winter’s morning, children’s author Maurice Flowers leaves his cottage and wanders out into the garden. In his hand, he’s carrying a rope and an old wooden chair. He arrives at a tree. After...
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How young Indian men are challenging toxic masculinity
In a post-Weinstein world, where the #MeToo campaign has mobilised women worldwide to stand up to their abusers, it feels that progress might finally be on the horizon. However, 25 years ago – decades...
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Inside the late teenage years of Basquiat
New York of the late ’70s was a squall of dilapidation, dirt and danger, through which souls drifted, buildings blazed and bankruptcy loomed. It was a city coming apart at the seams; riven with...
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A portrait of Stanley Kubrick as a young photographer
Stanley Kubrick was just 17 years old when he became a staff photographer for Look, one of the biggest large format photo magazines of the ’40s. The Bronx native was a natural behind the camera,...
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