In her vivid, at times poetic remarks, Swinton described the cinema as a boundless haven of freedom and solidarity, qualities increasingly difficult to find in the world.
•Stefan Steinberg, Verena Nees
“I have never felt this sense of lacking oxygen that I feel here.”
Following the cancellation at short notice of her planned lecture at universities in Munich and Berlin, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, finally spoke in Berlin in a room organised at very short notice and under police surveillance.
Particularly in the second half of her career, Faithfull produced work which stood head and shoulders above much of the vacuous music pumped out by the major international music concerns.
Israeli director Yuval Abraham has sharply denounced the latest campaign by the German authorities to stigmatise his film and the filmmaker himself as antisemitic.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Applebaum is closely linked to the US military-intelligence apparatus. She currently plays a leading role in churning out propaganda justifying the escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia.
With its portrayal of the young anti-fascist Hilde Coppi, Andreas Dresen’s new film recalls the varied forms of resistance to Hitler pursued by young people and working-class circles—so-called ordinary Germans.
In a significant blow to the German political establishment and media the documentary film No Other Land won the Panorama Audience Award at this year’s film festival. A number of film makers made powerful statements against Israel’s genocide.
By inviting the AfD, the Berlin Senate and the Green Party-led Culture Ministry are repudiating the Berlinale’s 2019 pledge to deny a “platform for racist-nationalist propaganda.”
For the past months, in the absence of any opposition by the trade unions, demonstrations and protests have been taking place across Britain aimed at preventing the exports of weaponry and weapon parts to Israel.
The sacking of Udi Raz is yet another example of the systematic campaign by the German government, media and politicians, assisted by Israeli surrogates, directed against Jewish opponents of the genocidal policy in Gaza being carried out by the Netanyahu regime.
A prominent Palestinian author has been censured and abused at this year’s Frankfurt Book Festival, the world’s largest book fair, which opened its doors on Wednesday.