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EP 144 · mrt 19
When the White House posts a montage of Hollywood blockbusters cut against US drone strikes on Iran, it raises a questio…
46m
EP 141 · feb 27
At this year's Berlinale Film Festival, Wim Wenders declared that cinema is not political — so hosts Elliot Bloom a…
48m
EP 134 · jan 15
2000 Metres to Andriivka is an extraordinary and deeply immersive war documentary. The latest film from Ukrainian direct…
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EP 116 · sep 4
Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a film made in the urgency of the present. Composed through a ser…
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EP 106 · apr 30
In this edition of Review Roundup, host Laura Gommans is joined by Elliot Bloom to dive into the re-release of Persepoli…
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EP 105 · apr 23
Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) returns to cinemas—a quiet revolution in filmmaking that blends love, loss, a…
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EP 104 · apr 16
Did audiences jump the gun on Alex Garland’s Warfare? Before it's release, the brutally realist portrait of America…
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EP 102 · apr 2
Dutch Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen was once one of the most powerful—and now largely forgotten—figures in Dutch cinem…
36m
EP 92 · jan 21
A fearless voice against systemic injustice, Raoul Peck has crafted a body of work that interrogates the legacies of col…
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EP 90 · jan 9
In a village under constant threat of displacement, where homes and schools are torn down and the land is slowly seized,…
28m
EP 88 · dec 10
When 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey (modern-day Republic of Benin) would finally be returned from France…
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EP 87 · dec 3
Trigger warning: Please be advised that this episode includes discussions about sexual violence. In this powerful episod…
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EP 86 · nov 27
In Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt delivers a raw and politically charged origin story about JJ, a Belfast teacher, and two self-…
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EP 62 · dec 19
“Hope is political. If you have hope then you have confidence you can change things” After 60 years of filmmaking, Briti…
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EP 61 · dec 14
Movies have always been a way to understand the world around us, and so, confronted with the brutal horrors of both Hama…
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EP 54 · sep 8
Set against the rise of Russia's authoritarian regime, filmmaker Marusya Syroechkovskaya paints an homage to both a…
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EP 07 · mei 20
The month of May is always a period of remembrance, commemorating all those who lost their lives during the Second World…