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The French star discusses shooting the show in Paris amid changing restrictions, how the series shows France as it is and why Netflix is the Olympics of TV.
Omar Sy is in a good mood. I m in Paris! Do you want to see a bit of Paris? the jovial Sy says, as means of introduction on our Zoom call, before jumping up, pointing his phone out the window of his hotel room to show off the view: The Eiffel Tower! The Champs-Élysées! Paris. My hometown.
Sy is back in the city he grew up in thanks to
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The documentary, which won a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, follows an unorthodox teacher and his sixth-grade students, most of them from immigrant families.
Mr. Bachmann and His Class took director Maria Speth years to research, six months to shoot, and another three years to edit.
The fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the eponymous Herr Bachmann, an extraordinary elementary school teacher in the industrial town of Stadtallendorf outside Frankfurt. His class of sixth-graders, 12- to 14-year-olds, most of them recent immigrants of the children of immigrants, is the kind of group often discussed in the tabloid media, or in worrying tones on the country s serious talk shows. The picture Speth provides, with her open-ended observation is much more empathic, and far more hopeful.
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25 years after the Srebrenica massacre, Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic returns to tell the story of the greatest atrocity of the Yugoslav War.
25 years after the Srebrenica massacre, Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic (
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams) returns to tell the story of the greatest atrocity of the Yugoslav War.
In her film, the story of the killings when under the eyes of U.N. Peacekeepers nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were rounded up and shot dead by troops of Bosnian Serbs is told from the perspective of Aida (Jasna Djuricic), a Bosnian translator working for the U.N. forces who races against time to try and save her husband and two sons from the coming slaughter.