Jerry White, the Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president, appeals for support for the final months of the election campaign. Donate here.
East German film comedies from the 1970s–Don’t Cheat, Darling!, Orpheus in the Underworld, Carnations in Aspic
Thirty-five years after its dissolution, a stream of television films and documentaries continue to be made about the GDR, presenting the state solely as a brutal dictatorship demonstrating the failure of socialism.
Bernd Reinhardt•
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 10
The Settlement, a highly topical film from Egypt dealing with the working class
This is a gripping film, without nostalgic working class romanticism or "proletarian hero" pathos, and also without the moralistically tinged tone of petty-bourgeois intellectuals, which characterises many other socially critical films.
Verena Nees •
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 9
Vivian Qu’s Girls on Wire from China—A doomed attempt to combine social realism with #MeToo
The message of the movie appears not to go beyond the platitudes of MeToo: that “women” although, inevitably the victim, are also “strong,” while men invariably tend to be bad.
Clara Weiss•
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 8
Two films dealing with racism and fascism: The Moelln Letters and The Lie
Together with The German People, the documentaries The Moelln Letters and The Lie were met with great interest at this year’s Berlin film festival.
Bernd Reinhardt•
Steve James•
Isabel Roy•
Martin Nowak, Bernd Reinhardt•
Joanne Laurier•
Isabel Roy, Verena Nees•