1/ wrote a few thoughts on the shameful statement published in Le Monde: “No To War”.
The entire world knows the Iranian government is authoritarian. No one needs to prove this in 2025.
The Iran of today is not the Iran of pre-2022, and it will never go back to how it was.
Moroccan pro-Palestinian activist Redouan Kastet has been charged for “mocking the government”—and this is no joke. He faces another night in a Tangier prison. Global solidarity with Redouan is urgently needed. #FreeKastet
cc @aamer_rahman@DropSiteNews
Yesterday before their films showed in TIFF's Wavelengths program, filmmaker Daphne Xu (Notes of a Crocodile) called out TIFF sponsor RBC for its investments in the Israeli military and in Coastal GasLink pipeline. Tiffany Sia (The Sojourn) reiterates the call re Coastal Gaslink.
Our joint investigation w/ @earshot_ngo and @AJFaultLines into the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her 4 cousins, her aunt and uncle, and 2 paramedics on 29 Jan 2024 challenges the Israeli Army’s claim that troops weren't in the area that day.
https://t.co/a9oqhgvHaU
Heiny Srour's groundbreaking film LEILA AND THE WOLVES is an exploration of the collective memory of women in Lebanon and Palestine, from the early 20th century to the early 1980s.
It's back on the big screen in crisp 4K to mark its 40th Anniversary 🎥
🎟️https://t.co/3XO74zuJBs
Beginning tonight at 6:30pm!
@ICALondon is hosting a week of screenings of Heiny Srour's Leila and the Wolves (1984)
Make sure to catch this stunning restoration of this outstanding film until 9 May. Get your tickets here ⬇️
https://t.co/UaUswWqXR6
if you witness a raid, do not walk by! if you’re in glasgow and surrounding, phone no eviction’s emergency line for support ⬇️⬇️⬇️ (Number ending in 003 below)
🚨Emergency legal update - What we know about the Rwanda Act and Treaty so far🚨
It's been reported by the press that the Home Office starts a surprise 2-week operation to detain people for the Rwanda flight on 29 April.
Read our Rwanda plan update. ⬇️
https://t.co/IsmdWFVlaB
Following the sold-out screening at this year’s @OpenCityDocs festival, we’re thrilled to announce a week-long run of the new 4K restoration of Leila and the Wolves by Heiny Srour, at @ICALondon between 3-9 May. https://t.co/UaUswWqXR6
"that a 5,500 year old religion and culture must exist only as the support system for a 76-year-old colonial ethno-state. To call out this lie is a daring and dangerous act, and Glazer should be commended"
For @FilmComment, I wrote about the protests at Berlinale 2024, Strike Germany, NO OTHER LAND, the crisis of agency for film workers, and the limits of “political art” https://t.co/RvzZr6PCZi
A good reminder to follow the essential work of @CollabJapanFilm who revived Isao Fujisawa's BYE BYE LOVE (1974)—a lost treasure of '70s queer cinema—last August for the first time with English subtitles!
Read curator Akihiro Suzuki's (@2022Ucf) notes:
https://t.co/BTxdXHihbw
was blown away by the recently found late-Japanese New Wave gem BYE BYE LOVE (1974) by Isao Fujisawa @berwickfilmfest: a queer, psychedelic fever dream about a man who shoots a cop and goes on the lam with his genderfluid shoplifting lover through the countryside.
Applications of The Eden Young Fellowship are now open!
We're looking for someone motivated, with ideas, who loves Polyester, culture, and enjoys working in a team.
To apply and for more information: https://t.co/ZSfGPvyeYT
in solidarity with gaza + palestine, over 100 glasgow residents are blockading the entrance to BAE Systems in govan, glasgow. they calling for an arms embargo to israel, an end to the bombing of yemen, immediate ceasefire + end to the genocide in Gaza. #freepalestine