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Tunisian Film Highlights Human Cost of Gaza Conflict
Worldmail-guardian1mo ago

Tunisian Film Highlights Human Cost of Gaza Conflict

A Tunisian film, 'The Voice of Hind Rajab,' a hybrid documentary and drama, is being screened at the Joburg Film Festival, featuring real recordings of a child trapped in Gaza to highlight the human cost of the conflict.

‘A love letter to Beirut’: Lana Daher on sifting 20,000 sources and 70 years of film to make Do You Love Me
CultureThe Guardian1mo ago

‘A love letter to Beirut’: Lana Daher on sifting 20,000 sources and 70 years of film to make Do You Love Me

Remembering and documentation are radical acts in Lebanon, a country with a tumultuous history and no national archive. Daher’s effervescent cultural collage is a direct challenge to collective amnesia At one point in Lana Daher’s film Do You Love Me, a woman questions the repeated advice of those around her to simply forget Lebanon’s 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. Why does she insist on “digging into the past”, especially when “this war was no worse than the others”? Yet it is precisely her act of remembering – of knowing that she “did not dream” the actuality of war – that prompts her to dig “into the present”. The Lebanese director’s debut feature is itself a substantive feat of excavation, with more than 20,000 sources consulted in collaboration with the editor, Qutaiba Barhamji (who worked on The Voice of Hind Rajab), to unearth the footage that would produce this 76-minute film. It is substantive also in the sense that this work was done in relation to a country that does not have a national archive. Continue reading...

OpenAI's Acquisition of Tech Talk Show TBPN Continues to Spark Media Clones
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OpenAI's Acquisition of Tech Talk Show TBPN Continues to Spark Media Clones

OpenAI has acquired the influential tech talk show and podcast TBPN, integrating it into its strategy to foster constructive conversation about AI and AGI. The blockbuster deal is expected to popularize a new mainstream media format and inspire a wave of similar digital talk shows covering tech, advertising, and politics, with new reports confirming the exclusive details of the acquisition.

Film 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' Screening in Kragujevac
Worlddanas18d ago

Film 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' Screening in Kragujevac

The film "The Voice of Hind Rajab," a Tunisian-French co-production that won the Silver Lion at its Venice premiere, will be screened at the Students' Cultural Center in Kragujevac, depicting a six-year-old girl trapped in a car under Israeli fire.

‘Voice of Hind Rajab’ Actor Can’t Attend Oscars Due to Trump’s Palestine Travel Ban: ‘You Can Block a Passport. You Cannot Block a Voice’
Culturevariety27d ago

‘Voice of Hind Rajab’ Actor Can’t Attend Oscars Due to Trump’s Palestine Travel Ban: ‘You Can Block a Passport. You Cannot Block a Voice’

Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama “The Voice of Hind Rajab” is up for best international feature at the Oscars on Sunday, but one of its stars will not be in attendance. Motaz Malhees, who plays a call center operator desperately trying to help 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab as she’s trapped in a car under fire […]

US Congress Introduces 'Justice for Hind Rajab Act'
Worldmorocco-world-news28d ago

US Congress Introduces 'Justice for Hind Rajab Act'

Members of the US Congress introduced the 'Justice for Hind Rajab Act' on March 12, led by Democratic Senators Peter Welch and Chris Van Hollen, and Representatives Sara Jacobs and Joa, in a show of Palestinian solidarity.

Award-Winning Film "The Voice of Hind Rajab" Screens in Czech Republic
Cultureirozhlas18d ago

Award-Winning Film "The Voice of Hind Rajab" Screens in Czech Republic

The film "The Voice of Hind Rajab," which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar, is now being screened in Czech cinemas after its premiere at the One World festival. The film is set in Ramallah in January 2024 and focuses on the Red Crescent.