Review

Not a country for smart girls

February 2008 -

Persepolis is the film version of the autobiographical cartoons in which Marjane Satrapi tells about growing up in Iran and Europe at the time of the fall of the Shah, the Iranian revolution and the war with Iraq.

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Free Trade and Culture

February 2008 -

Peter Van den Bossche - Free Trade and Culture: A Study of Relevant WTO Rules and Constraints on National Cultural Policy Measures

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Conflicts and tensions in a globalising world

january 2008 -

Renowned thinkers from various disciplines set out the 'how and why' of tensions and conflicts in Conflicts and Tensions. This in connection with cultural identity and cultural expressions.

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Warm portrait of Chinese shadow puppet players

December 2007 -

In a barren region in Northwest China an old puppetry tradition is kept alive with an all-out effort. The melancholic documentary Chinese shadows shows the life of the puppeteers and the poor farming population they belong to.

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A city which comes apart at the seams

November 2007 -

Iranian director Massoud Bakhshi made an ironical portrait of Tehran.

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Explosion of stimulation for the senses

October 2007 -

Opera Jawa is a fascinating performance that showcases many types of art.

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Images of ecstasy and tranquillity with Act of Faith

October 2007 -

Photographers from all over the world show their vision of religion.

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Love and rebellion in Beijing

September 2007 -

Summer Palace is a touching and moving – at times unclear – love story situated during the Chinese student rebellions in the 1980s.

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Silent parents

March 2007 -

New Year Baby - Director Socheata Poeuv was born in a refugee camp after her parents escaped from Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia. In New Year Baby she takes them and the audience with her on a trip to their past.

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Palestinian history as shocking collage

February 2007 -

Gate of the Sun, published in Beirut in 1998 and awarded the Palestine Award the same year, is considered in the Arabic world as an outstanding work which reconstructs and copes with contemporary Palestinian history for the first time.

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