Taste of Cement directed by Ziad Kalthoum, screening Monday 24 April 10:00 at the Salle Communale in Nyon at the Visions du Réel film festival. Film review by Rachel Beacher Syrian director Ziad Kalthoum, exiled in Lebanon in 2013 after running away from military service, has made a beautiful and moving documentary about Syrian builders […]
Surviving and living under Siege – One day in Aleppo – Film, Monday 24 April at Visions du Réel
“Brave documentary filmmaking” – One Day in Aleppo, directed by Ali Alibrahim, produced by Feras Fayyad Screening Monday, April 24 at 14:15 – Capitole Fellini Tickets here This film review is by Rachel Beacher. Rachel is a British journalist based in Lausanne. There is brave documentary making – then, there is filming in the middle of […]
A multicoloured Paléo for 2012 from Sting, Bon Iver, the Cure, Garbage and Bloc Party to groups from the Middle East
Photo above of the Paléo Buddy App. A phone application with all the info on this year’s Paléo. “Paléo is going to be a multicoloured festival this year” revealed Daniel Rossellat in front of the multi coloured fesival poster at the 2012 Paléo press conference today the 17th April. This year the conference was held in the Globi Union […]