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Film that was supposed to screen here in competition moves one second but it was pulled at the very last minute just before it was supposed to screen on friday and though officially the line is it was because of technical difficulties there s also been the suggestion that it could have been because of censorship because the film itself deals with the cultural revolution it set in the cultural revolution and that is a big no go area for most chinese filmmakers so it could have been i m not suggesting this was the case but it could be the jury let that influence them somewhat and thought that maybe giving the top prize as well as the two acting prizes to a chinese film might be too much supporting too too much p.r. for the chinese government would be the. without a whiff of politics can you tell us was there anything else that made this festival stand out. well for me i have to say it was number female directors with films competing this year that was seven out of the sixteen films in co ....
Already that they ve been inspired by creator who s been striking against climate change since august. i think i am too young to take action it s absurd that children have to do these things and. that since no one is doing anything i i feel like i have to do this it s my more judith to do what i can. she thinks the real action needs to take place at the political level which is why i created protests outside of parliament. prius s determination has made a famous video of her speaking at the climate change conference in cut of it s a pole and went viral. mining is good at him but. she also hoped the rich and powerful to account at the world economic forum in davos. but not everybody appreciates the sixteen year olds campaign to save the world she s become a target on social media something that her parents were afraid of we thought it ....
Both britain s exit terms and a new free trade agreement would be wrapped up within the article fifty timeframe that hasn t gone so well he said at the end of two years so in two of the sixteen the end of two years he said we will have other deals you don t have paul i think there was definitely over confidence that but i think it wasn t helped by the fact that theresa may. couldn t bring the cabinet together to agree what they were going to ask for and then and then started asking for a much more complicated arrangement than i think that president tusk was originally offering up in march last last year and then the whole border question has been confected as a mechanism to try and split the united kingdom. in a way that s completely unacceptable i don t know why the prime minister ever accepted the premise of that discussion but a chink you could tell your conference and thank you thank you very much. ....
Cars if there. is one of the sixteen so-called political prisoners who have been released from prison his political commitment his will to personally stand up in behalf of the prisoners. that the government s human rights envoy has also praised president shafqat museo he s promoted that his country is opening up he says that thanks to the president finally have an opportunity to defend their rights. to the rubbish as to what. we used to receive two hundred complaints a year most last year we got nine hundred today we don t have a single political prisoner in our jails because the president personally monitors the situation we have changed as a country and i know. a lot has changed in news because down in the. last two ....
It s no coincidence that i ended up in the arts not politics to me fear is a clear and critical entity especially in our country after world war two. and it wasn t just a door know who told us we could no longer sing songs and write poems if we were not critical. could take this culture of criticism in germany this clear responsibility to question power structures it isn t just born by the media but by the arts to its calling us to resist to take a stand. in the when i read that when you were growing up in nuremberg at the age of fourteen you went to anti nucular demonstrations and took part in the easter marches and. what was your motivation back then i think you are going all in the sixteen give mind i grew up in that very community of exiled turkish intellectuals ....