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On another evening in the village of Shaghir Bazar, children rushed in before the film started to grab front-row seats. (AFP)
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Mobile cinema brings movie magic to Syria Kurd children

In Kurdish-held areas of the northeast, filmmaker Shero Hinde is screening films in remote villages using just a laptop, projector and a canvas screen

  • Delil Souleiman
4 min read
ANTHONY PUGLIESE

Witch’s hat and Jack Ruby’s gun under the hammer

The items are like a march through some of the most famous moments in 20th-century American history, some of them real, some of them cinematic: from the shooting of Lee Harvey…

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
BEN STONE

Birth and death and everything in between

<b>MOVIES OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews two comedies out on circuit this week <i>Knocked Up</i> and <i>Death at a Funeral</i>

  • Shaun De Waal
4 min read
ARTE

‘Mime knows neither borders nor nationalities’

The world’s best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon’s office said on September 23. For decades, Marceau epitomised his…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
ARTE

French mime artist Marcel Marceau dies

The world’s best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon’s office said on Sunday. For decades, Marceau epitomised his silent…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Encounters of an informative kind

Shea Karssing looks at what’s on offer at this year’s Encounters South African Documentary Festival.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read