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Kamran Ashtari: "Internet is Iran's only public forum"

April 2009 -

Do satellite television, the Internet and digital film offer an escape from censorship in a country like Iran? This what the viewer starts to wonder while watching the Iranian documentary Head Wind.

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Abducted bride acquiesces in her fate

October 2008 -

Ernest Abdyjaparov pokes fun at rural traditions. Shaped into a romantic story, the film makes use of clear light and vibrant colours.Dat giet hij in een romantische vertelling, alles gefilmd in helder licht en felle kleuren.

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Donald Mugisha: 'I prefer digital filming because of the style'

September 2008 -

For Uganda film maker Donald Mugisha, the digital camera was sent from heaven.

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Disruption of a woman's life

September 2008 -

Young Lee Shin-Ae is struck by disaster in an intimate and critical film by Korean director Lee-Chang-dong.

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Unspoken grief on a Chilean island

August 2008 -

In the movie El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia director José Luis Torres Leiva leaves a great deal unsaid.

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Togara Muzanenhamo: 'Poetry offers enormous satisfaction'

July 2008 -

Poet Togara Muzanenhamo sees an opportunity in Zimbabwe for a new generation of performance poets, but he prefers to remain on the sideline himself.

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"I saw Algeria again as it was thirty years ago"

May 2008 -

Now that there is more peace and quiet in his native country, film maker Amor Hakkar sees space for the personal in Algerian cinema. In La Maison Jaune he shows the mourning process of a rural family which suddenly loses its eldest son.

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Weng Shou-ming: "Some people think I have guts"

April 2008 -

The director from Fuijan believes he is an individualist among today's generation of Chinese film makers.

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Partho Sen-Gupta: "I want to offer resistance to Bollywood"

March 2008 -

With the Hinglish film Let the Wind Blow the Indian director tells his own story as well.

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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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