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France’s top film producer says it will blacklist figures who petitioned against rightwing billionaire

Canal+ head says he will not work with hundreds of actors and directors who signed protest against Vincent Bolloré’s political sway

The Guardian - UK

French film industry at risk from the far right, say actors and directors

Juliette Binoche joins 600 leading figures to warn against a ‘fascist takeover of the collective imagination’

The Guardian - UK

‘Sensitive, sexy and surreal’: Japan’s Kyotographie festival

Highlights of this year’s international photography festival in Kyoto include Linder Sterling’s exclamatory collages, a retrospective of groundbreaking Daido Moriyama and a journey though apartheid South Africa with Ernest Cole

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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk review – shattering memorial to Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona

Sepideh Farsi’s devastating documentary follows Hassona through a year of video calls before a fate that, though well known, is too bitter to bear

The Guardian - UK

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza

Fatma Hassona used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about the journalist

The Guardian - UK

Scottish screenwriter pays tribute to Palestinian journalist killed by Israeli strike

A LEADING Scottish screenwriter has paid tribute to a Palestinian journalist killed in an Israeli air strike.

The National (Scotland)

Cannes honours Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna at documentary premiere

The 25-year-old journalist was killed in April, a day after the film was accepted into Cannes, when an Israeli missile struck her residential building

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'I Thought She'd Survive': Story Of Slain Gaza Photojournalist Touches Cannes

Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi is still in shock after an Israeli air strike killed her documentary's main subject, 25-year-old photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, in Gaza last month.

International Business Times

Ukraine, Gaza and #MeToo in the spotlight as Cannes Film Festival opens

The Cannes Film Festival opens on Tuesday, with stars of world cinema from Juliette Binoche to Tom Cruise expected on the red carpet. Glitz and glamour aside, this year's event highlights the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as sexual harassment in the film industry – as one of…

Radio France Internationale

Hollywood Stars Condemn Gaza 'Genocide' On Eve Of Cannes Festival

More than 350 figures from the cinema world including Hollywood stars Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon condemned "genocide" in Gaza in an open letter published Monday on the eve of the Cannes Festival.

International Business Times

Cannes Film Festival: What To Look Out For

The glitz and glamour of the Cannes film festival returns to the French Riviera on Tuesday.

International Business Times

'I want a loud death': Cannes Film Festival to honour slain Gaza journalist

Cannes Film Festival organisers said the screening of a documentary about Gaza photojournalist Fatima Hassouna at the event next month would honour her work, after the "horror" of her death in an Israeli air strike.

Radio France Internationale

‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike

Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family

The Guardian - UK

Palestinian star of Cannes documentary killed in Israeli missile strike

Fatma Hassona, the protagonist of Sepideh Farsi’s ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’, was 25

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'The Siren': The Iran-Iraq war seen through the eyes of a teenage boy

A renowned Iranian filmmaker who's now based in France says it's very important for her to make films that tell the truth about her childhood and life inside Iran. Sepideh Farsi says she is able to give an independent view as to what happens in the country, unlike filmmakers who…

Reuters

Banned Iranian filmmaker portrays her version of Iran-Iraq war

Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi's debut animation aims to counter what she says is the traditional narrative of the Iran-Iraq War as her contribution to supporting protests at home.

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