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International Migration Film Festival Puts Refugees in the Picture With Top Talents, Titles
Turkey, which hosts the largest number of migrants in the world, is launching the International Migration Film Festival that aims to boost awareness of their plight and will also serve as a primer of global cinematic output on this timely topic.
There are currently an estimated roughly 4 million migrants in Turkey, most of whom are refugees from war-torn Syria. The festival is a Turkish government initiative being organized by a team of independent local film event professionals. For its first edition the team has assembled a rich lineup of more than 40 films from 25 countries and recruited some big names including Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who serves as jury president (see interview), F. Murray Abraham, Danny Glover, Lone Scherfig, Matt Dillon and Turkish star Tuba Buyukustun, her country’s first International Emmy Award Nominee, also known across the Middle East as Lamiss.
Abraham, who is the son of a Syrian migrant and serves as the event’s honorary president, says the idea is “to promote films which tap into the migration experience” and also to feature “films produced by, directed by, and starring immigrants and refugees.”
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Cannes Dispatch #5: Awards, Howards End, and The Cinema Travelers
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Increasingly critical, and sometimes exhibiting a disconcerting lack of civility and respect, the journalists who cover the annual Cannes Film Festival expressed widespread dissatisfaction over the jury’s selection of winners last year, taking to social media or voicing their opinions aloud as last year’s event came to a close. Gathered in a massive cinema to watch a simulcast of the awards ceremony, attendees groaned in unison when Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan won the Palme d’Or, cinema’s most important international festival prize. The response forced jury co-president Joel Coen to remind the press, who were clearly pulling for other Competition entries: “This isn’t a jury of film critics, this is a jury of artists.”
Last night, as critics and writers sat down to watch this year’s ceremony, they were more expressive and even downright mean. When the cameras captured Xavier Dolan in the audience prior to the ceremony, a mob booed and moaned. Needless to say, minutes later when he was awarded the Grand Prix (effectively the festival’s runner-up award) for It’s Only the End of the World, the audience let him have it as they watched the video transmission of an emotional Dolan telling the jury
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