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Pakistanis found the submission of false diplomas, employment contracts for water visas Blogging Sole

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Pakistanis found the submission of false diplomas, employment contracts for water visas Blogging Sole

Listen to the article The session of the National Assembly revealed that some Pakistani citizens have submitted false diplomas, diplomas and employment contracts to obtain visas for the United Arab Emirates (Water), reported Express News. The session, chaired by agent president Abdul Qadir Patel, discussed increasing concerns concerning the limited issuance of water visas for … Read more

Christmas cheer and domestic discord in Finland’s Oscar submission – Blogging Sole

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Christmas cheer and domestic discord in Finland’s Oscar submission – Blogging Sole

With its long, static shots of domestic life, “Family Time” resembles the “Paranormal Activity” of deranged vacation movies: There’s a sense of spying on people who don’t realize they’re under a microscope. Of course, Tia Kovu’s debut feature film was professionally written, directed and acted. But her style is so simple, you can sometimes forget … Read more

Kim Sung-soo’s war thriller is Korea’s Oscar submission – Blogging Sole

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Kim Sung-soo’s war thriller is Korea’s Oscar submission – Blogging Sole

One of the darkest chapters in South Korean history is chronicled in “12.12: Today,” a dramatic account of the 1979 coup that followed the assassination of authoritarian President Park Chung-hee on October 26. Meticulously written and extremely well performed by a first-rate cast including Hwang Jung-min (“Deliver Us from Evil”), director and co-writer Kim Sung-soo’s … Read more

‘The Antique’ review: Georgia’s stately Oscar submission – Blogging Sole

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‘The Antique’ review: Georgia’s stately Oscar submission – Blogging Sole

In Rusudan Glogidze’s winter sophomore film “Vintage,” the title could refer to any number of withered relics: the beautiful, richly antique pieces of furniture that Georgian émigré Medea (Salome Demoria) illegally imports from her home country to Russia to sell; The once large but disintegrating apartment in St. Petersburg that she bought at a discount … Read more

Türkiye’s Oscar submission gets lost in toxic masculinity – Blogging Sole

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Türkiye’s Oscar submission gets lost in toxic masculinity – Blogging Sole

At the beginning of Turkish director Zeki Demirkuboz’s long-awaited and frustratingly misjudged Life — the director’s first film in seven years, and now serving as a Turkish international feature film being submitted for the Oscars — a young woman named Hekran escapes the claws of an impending scheme. Marriage disappears. We learn a lot, not … Read more