A film director burns his lamination for warmth. A teacher works to feed his students. A stand-up comedian arrives at the party to find the place bombed. In From Ground Zero, Palestine’s entry for the Academy Awards’ Feature Film category, 22 directors present cinematic memoirs from Gaza, shot between (and sometimes during) Israeli army raids … Read more
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
Johannesburg — The Sudan Rapid Support Forces, a camp in a civil war which tore the African nation apart for over a year and created one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planetare accused of raping numerous women and girls and using some as sex slaves in a new Human Rights Watch report. The … Read more
Tel Aviv, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand Tuesday in his lengthy trial for alleged corruption, setting off what is expected to be a weeklong spectacle that will draw unwanted attention to his legal troubles as he faces a international arrest warrant for war crimes and the fighting in Gaza continues. … Read more