Jean gabriel periot biography of abraham
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Social Studies
WITH FIFTEEN FEATURES and eight programs of shorts, the second edition of the New York Film Festival’s “Currents” sidebar almost qualifies as a festival in itself. Again international in scope, this year’s selections reflect the ongoing impact of social media, not only in terms of how it has altered the speed and perspective by which global events are registered, but in how it suggests a possible new direction for cinema; this seems to be the point of Tiffany Sia’s Do Not Circulate. In reworking cellphone images of the violent police response to protests in Hong Kong in 2019, Sia’s work seeks to retain the immediacy of the events.
Found footage, long a staple of film history, shows up in other movies this year. For example, in Just a Movement, Vincent Meessen’s chronicle of the influence and fate of Marxist activist Omar Diop, the director interviews some of Diop’s former friends and colleagues in
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« Stir yourselves because we’ll need all your enthusiasm. Organize yourselves because we’ll need all your strength. Educate yourselves because we’ll need all your intelligence. »
Antonio Gramsci in L’Ordine Nuovo – 1919
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Documentary filmmaking shapes new narratives, new visions, and new readings of the world. Throughout its history, one of the genre’s driving forces has been filmmakers’ desire to lift the veil on the present, as a way of better understanding and experiencing reality. Rooted in the belief that films open our eyes to the world, each year, Popular Front(s) sets out to explore some part of our contemporary reality and some of the questions that move us, inviting us to embrace an activist stance.
Popular Front(s) screenings take place every day. They feature recent films—including world premieres—followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and a guest, fängslande viewers in a reflection on the film’s form, its framtidsperspektiv, and on the theme of the present edition.
Saturd • Mohanad Yaqubi is a filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house, Idioms Film. Yaqubi is one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films that focuses on militant film practices, also, a founding member of the Palestine Film Institute, that focus on supporting, promoting, and preserving Palestinian … Filmmaker and video artist Avi Mograbi was born in 1956 in Tel Aviv, where he lives and works. He grew up in a family of European and Arab Jewish emigrants – his grandfather, who came from Damascus, founded one of the first cinemas in Tel Aviv – in a Zionist environment from which he emancipated … Basel Adra is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist and filmmaker from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank. As an activist and documentary director, he is fighting against Israel’s mass expulsion of his community.Biographies
Mohanad Yaqubi
Avi Mograbi
Basel Adra
Hamdan Ballal