“Salt of this Sea” trailer with English titles by Annemarie Jacir with Suheir Hammad and Saleh Bakri
Winner of FIPRESCI Critics Award, Salt of this Sea, Palestine 2008, Official Selection Cannes Feature Film directed by Annemarie Jacir starring Suheir Hammad and Saleh Bakri. Facebook Page: www.facebook.com Official Website: www.philistinefilms.org
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A Farewell to This Life, and All Its Ghosts
A Farewell to This Life, and All Its Ghosts
Last May, when a Cannes Film Festival jury headed by Tim Burton awarded the Palme d’Or to “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” there was widespread surprise and a few eruptions of outrage . The film — from the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul , who has become a familiar presence on the festival circuit over the past decade — is unquestionably strange, at times mystifyingly …
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On screens this weekend
On screens this weekend
The 20th edition of the film festival has kicked off last night with a gala honouring previous winners. The opening also featured a first time screening of Danny Boyle’s controversial “127 Hours”.
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Who will be this year’s Slumdog Millionaire?
Who will be this year’s Slumdog Millionaire?
Liam Lacey susses out the cinematic gems poised to break out at TIFF – and make nice with Oscar
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Kermode Uncut: Cannes 2010 Day 4 – So what’s good this year?
On a diet of about four films per day including Mike Leigh’s Another Year, Gregg Araki’s Kaboom, the cultish possessed car tyre movie Rubber, Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Talll Dark Stranger, and Hideo Nakata’s Chatroom, I can’t argue that most food groups aren’t being served this year, but who is looking like Chef of the Cannes kitchen at the halfway point?