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Palestinian who worked on Oscar-winning 'No Other Land' killed

An Israeli settler, who Donald Trump removed from US sanctions list in January, has killed a Palestinian journalist and community leader who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land'.

29/07/2025

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Remembering Felix Baumgartner - the man who skydived from space

The world of extreme sports is mourning the death of Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian athlete who became the first person to break the sound barrier during a freefall jump in 2012. He died in a paragliding crash along Italy's eastern coast, at the age of 56.

18/07/2025

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What are the best movies of 2025 so far?

How many have you seen? And do you agree with our first-half of 2025 ranking?

04/07/2025

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Brookfield Zoo’s pangolin at centre of new wildlife documentary

A new Netflix documentary is shining a spotlight on the pangolin, one of the world’s most endangered and illegally trafficked mammals.

05/06/2025

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'Back To The Future’ stars join Gibson in search for missing guitar

“We are on the lookout for a missing guitar...” No one has seen this now-iconic instrument since 1985 and the stars of the Back To The Future films have teamed up with Gibson to locate this important piece of cinema history. The hunt is on.

04/06/2025

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Marcel Ophuls, director of 'The Sorrow and the Pity', dies aged 97

His most famous work, The Sorrow and the Pity (1969), was a groundbreaking four-hour documentary that shattered France’s myths about resistance during World War II.

26/05/2025

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Who really took the Napalm Girl photo? Iconic image credit 'suspended'

The haunting image, seen around the world and hailed as a defining symbol of the Vietnam War’s horrors, is once again under scrutiny as questions resurface about who actually took the photograph.

20/05/2025

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Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut

The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

17/04/2025

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Netflix documentary revives domestic violence conversation in France

The three-part Netflix documentary looks back on the murder of actress Marie Trintignant by rockstar Bertrand Cantat. The series also sheds a new light on the death of Cantat’s wife Krisztina Rády.

16/04/2025

Cinema

From Hamdan Ballal to La La Land: A short history of Oscars apologies

The Academy has apologised to 'No Other Land' co-director Hamdan Ballal after criticism for failing to address his violent attack, adding to a list of public apologies by the institution.

31/03/2025

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Israel releases Oscar-winning Palestinian director after detainment

The Oscar-winning Palestinian co-director of 'No Other Land', Hamdan Ballal, was attacked by Jewish settlers, detained by the Israeli army, and later released.

26/03/2025

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Israeli police free Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal after 24 hours

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Oscar-winning directors of 'No Other Land', has been released by Israeli authorities after he was detained last night following clashes in the West Bank.

25/03/2025

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Oscar winning director beaten by Israeli settlers and detained by army

Oscar-winning filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, one of the co-directors of 'No Other Land', was beaten by Israeli settlers in the West Bank before being detained by the Israeli military, witnesses have said.

25/03/2025

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Defending tradition and language at Geneva'sHuman Rights Film Festival

'Children of Honey' highlights the struggle of the Hadzabe community to preserve its traditions and language. It was one a dozen documentary films shortlisted as part of the 'Impact Days' programme organised by the International Film Festival and Forum for Human Rights in Geneva.

17/03/2025

Cinema

Explore AI in film at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival

The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival is set to bring over 260 documentaries to the big screen, with dozens of world premieres and an AI-themed tribute.

05/03/2025

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Celebrities criticise BBC for pulling Gaza documentary

The film about the lives of children in Gaza was removed after the BBC said it discovered the film’s 14-year-old narrator was the son of an official for Palestinian organisation Hamas. However, it may not be as simple as that...

27/02/2025

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'Bucha' creators on documenting Ukraine's heroic civilians at war

Following a successful world tour with private screenings and a premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival last year, 'Bucha' is now set for wider distribution across Europe, with hopes of reaching a global audience.

10/01/2025

Cinema

'The Bibi Files': The film Netanyahu tried to stop

After years of legal delays, the criminal indictments on fraud, bribery, and breach of trust for which Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is now standing trial has reached a critical stage. The Israeli PM did everything he could to stop Alexis Bloom and Alex Gibney's documentary from ever being released.

09/01/2025

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Melania Trump documentary directed by Brett Ratner announced

A new documentary on Amazon Prime from the future first lady suggests a changing, perhaps warmer, relationship between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the Trumps.

07/01/2025

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Why are we still so obsessed with F1's Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost?

As two new TV shows come out about the 80s F1 greats, what keeps Senna and Prost so key to the sport's mythology?

17/12/2024