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...newborn brother from infanticide and escapes to the city, and Petite Lumi?re by Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative. Says Yidana Ibrahim, a Ghanaian filmmaker whose documentary on water issues, In Your Hands, screened last year: "This festival will encourage more young Ghanaian filmmakers to make environmental films. This festival...
...someone else's debts. Whether that feeling is justified or not is a matter of vigorous dispute in my country. But such a painful issue cannot be resolved within a single generation. Look at Germany: it took many years of peace, prosperity and democracy after World War II before German society was ready to face its ghosts. Demanding an instant catharsis from a small, impoverished Serbia so soon after the war is, indeed, unfair. Milosevic's death briefly amplified these feelings...
...brother from infanticide and escapes to the city, and Petite Lumière by Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative...
...doing that. But those of us who are sincerely concerned with the plight of Iranians cannot satisfy ourselves through further abdication. It is crystal clear that something has to be done.Even people halfway around the world can accomplish something important for Iran. In an interview with a German newspaper, one of Iran’s leading reformers, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, said, “The conservatives always cave in to a lot of foreign criticism, and when there is no foreign criticism, they do what they want. I predict that in the future, if there is no international pressure, there will...
...Confederacy from rabble-rousing supporters of Abraham Lincoln. Though much has changed in the last 144 years, a large part of St. Louis’s charter can still be traced to the political situation at the outbreak of the Civil War, when its large population of anti-slavery German immigrants—the mid-19th century equivalent of today’s “dangerous radicals”—made St. Louis a significant threat to the newly seceded Confederacy.For those of you who haven’t been reading the news, the Civil War ended...