BORDER. Best Film Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard

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In this dark fairytal Swedish actress Eva Melander buries herself in the role of Tina, an ostracized woman who feels out of place in society because of her otherworldly appearance. The peculiar creature she plays in director Ali Abbasi’s foreign-language Oscar submission suggests the unholy offspring of Quasimodo and a Tolkien Orc. But that’s just the starting point for an entrancing and unexpected love story when Tina — who works a lonely job in border security, using her rat-like sense of smell — wakes up to her superpowers when she meets a fawning man (Eero Milonoff) who looks just like her.

BORDER. Best Film Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard

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When Steve Bannon left his position as White House chief strategist less than a week after the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally in August 2017, he was already a notorious figure in Trump’s inner circle, and for bringing a far-right ideology into the highest echelons of American politics. Unconstrained by an official post — though some say he still has a direct line to the White House — he became free to peddle influence as a perceived kingmaker, turning his controversial brand of nationalism into a global movement. THE BRINK follows Bannon through the 2018 mid-term elections in the United States, shedding light on his efforts to mobilize and unify far-right parties in order to win seats in the May 2019 European Parliamentary elections. To maintain his power and influence, the former Goldman Sachs banker and media investor reinvents himself — as he has many times before — this time as the self-appointed leader of a global populist movement.

THE POETESS. A Saudi Woman Speaks Out

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Proiezione in anteprima del videoclip di “Move”, seguita da una performance live di Rbsn. Ingresso con tessera. Gratuito per i soci detour. Diretto da Brando Pacitto, “Move” rappresenta il mito di Sisifo applicato all’umanità moderna e all’industria musicale. Spingere una roccia che per il suo stesso peso torna al punto di partenza, l’importanza delle transizioni e l’inganno della sottomissione sono i concetti che hanno ispirato in primis il brano (http://bit.ly/Move_song), realizzato insieme a Roberto Angelini presso Pyramid Produzioni, e successivamente il video scritto a quattro mani da RBSN e Brando Pacitto ed interpretato magistralmente da Valeria Bono e Chabeli Sastre Gonzalez.

THE POETESS. A Saudi Woman Speaks Out

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In 2010, Saudi Arabian writer and activist Hissa Hilal did something unimaginable she starred in the Arab World’s biggest televised live poetry competition. In a society where the art of poetry is alive and well, ‘Million’s Poet’ is a hugely popular X-Factor style talent show. Storming through the rounds, and becoming progressively more political in her critique of religious extremism and her patriarchal society, Hilal became the first woman to reach the show’s final speaking with wit and lyricism on live tv to an audience of 70 million (Rotten tomatoes).

BORDER. Best Film Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard

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In this dark fairytal Swedish actress Eva Melander buries herself in the role of Tina, an ostracized woman who feels out of place in society because of her otherworldly appearance. The peculiar creature she plays in director Ali Abbasi’s foreign-language Oscar submission suggests the unholy offspring of Quasimodo and a Tolkien Orc. But that’s just the starting point for an entrancing and unexpected love story when Tina — who works a lonely job in border security, using her rat-like sense of smell — wakes up to her superpowers when she meets a fawning man (Eero Milonoff) who looks just like her.

VISAGES VILLAGES by Agnès Varda. A masterpiece.

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Agnès Varda goes on the road with street artist JR to create remarkable, moving portraits of the people they meet. Here’s a wonderful warmth and playful indirectness to this essay/road movie in the classic nouvelle vague spirit, conjuring a semi-accidental narrative in the midst of what is ostensibly a documentary.  It is a collaboration between the 90-year-old director Agnès Varda and a 35-year-old French street artist who styles himself simply JR and always wears a hat and dark glasses, indoors and out – an opaque mannerism, almost a disguise, which Varda compares to her old comrade Jean-Luc Godard, and which irritates her a little bit.