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JO STANLEY reports on the Leeds International Film Festival
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AT A time of acute focus on xenophobia and struggles for global domination, it’s perhaps unsurprising that nazi politics in Germany, European exploitation of indigenous peoples and the history of social struggle in remote corners of the globe were some of the most visible themes in this year’s wide-ranging festival.
The excellent Arctic Encounters strand, worthy of a festival in its own right, had some fascinating juxtapositions.
Robert J Flaherty’s classic 1922 silent documentary about Inuit life, Nanook of the North, would have been unwatchable if viewed after, not before, two Inuit ripostes — Dominic Gagnon’s Of the North, released this year, and Mark Sandiford’s 2006
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Rita Di Santo speaks to Hungarian director LASZLO NEMES about his new film, a portrait of the French Resistance leader and hero, Jean Moulin
STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old