CINEMA / SRI LANKA

Cinéma: Funny Boy | À la rencontre de Nimmi Harasgama

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Ce film tourné au Sri Lanka raconte l’histoire d’une famille tamoule de Colombo dont le fils développe très tôt une sensibilité gaie, d’où le titre « Funny Boy », « funny » voulant dire en anglais « drôle » dans les deux sens du terme, comme en français d’ailleurs.

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CINEMA / SRI LANKA

Funny Boy & Interview with Nimmi Harasgama

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Adapted from Shylam Selvadua’s novel, the film is multi-layered, cleverly weaving the personal and political over time to show how inextricably entwined they have become. In Sri Lanka, then and now, it is impossible to separate the wider political, cultural and historical context from individual lives, loves and memories.

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CINEMA

A Window to the World

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Andrew Thompson executive chair of the Arts and Humanity Research Council states “film has an ability to make distant people, places and ideas immediate, visually accessible.

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AFRICA / CINEMA

Africa Finds its Cinematic Voice

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Africa Finds its Cinematic Voice By Beverly Andrews A contemporary Buddhist leader, Daisaku Ikeda of the lay Buddhist organisation the Soka Gakkai International, once said that the 21st century would be the […]

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CINEMA

Le destin égocentrique d’Amélie Poulain

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Le film vu d’Angleterre Autrice: Elizabeth Ross Amélie est le personnage principal dans le célèbre long métrage « le destin fabuleux d’Amélie Poulain » réalisé en 2001 par Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amélie est […]

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CINEMA

Bangla: love outside of your confort zone

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Cinema Made in Italy By Beverly Andrew While the coronavirus wreaks havoc throughout the world, Italy has been amongst the hardest hit. With the country now though gradually reopening, London’s Made in […]

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CINEMA / FILM

A Valley of Hope

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The film opens with a scene showing a local couple, Elisabetta and her husband, teaching French to a young Eritrean family. They hope by doing so they may best be able to help the family better explain their complex asylum case to the local authority.

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CINEMA / EUROPE

ADULTS IN THE ROOM: UN FILM DE HAUTE VOLTIGE

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Du Costa Gavras de haute voltige. La réalité dépasse souvent la fiction et en politique dans les plus hautes sphères du pouvoir, au cœur de l’arène, cet adage est particulièrement et malheureusement vrai.

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