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Budrus
In 2003 the Israeli Government started construction on a Separation Fence in the Occupied West Bank BUT instead of going along the border line of the area, it cut right through Palestinian land. So much so, its planned route would have isolated six villages that would have then become completely land-locked. One of them was Budrus, and…
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THE PARADE
I know I was laughing far too hard at the opening scenes of this wickedly funny comedy because from the word go I knew the plot was horribly un-pc. This is a Serbian movie that poked fun about widespread homophobia but also indulged in racial slurs between all the different peoples that once made up…
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THE SALT OF LIFE
This bittersweet comedy from Italian writer/director/actor Gianni Di Gregio is almost a sequel of his sleeper hit of 2008, the truly delightful ‘MID AUGUST LUNCH’. In that film Gianni was a 60-year-old man living alone with his demanding octogenarian tiny mother who finds himself the custodian of several other old ladies who are dumped upon…
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IF A TREE FALLS : A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
One of the most shocking realizations of this new documentary that looks at the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) was that the Authorities response to their initial peaceful protests was to beat, club and unmercifully mace them and generally treat them like murderers when the only physical harm they had done…
