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Favoriten: the classroom becomes a model for society in Ruth Beckermann’s compassionate doc
Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann takes an unhurried and optimistic approach to documenting a class of primary school children in the working-class Viennese neighbourhood of Favoriten.
Grand Theft Hamlet: a play inside a video game? Madness, but there’s method in it
By Gayle Sequeira
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Rungano Nyoni finds elegant magic in the most painful places
By Leila Latif
Ian McEwan on collaborating with Richard Eyre for The Ploughman’s Lunch
By Jill Forbes
Nightbitch: Marielle Heller depicts the challenges of motherhood with a satirical bite
By Savina Petkova
Rumours: How Guy Maddin learned to stop worrying and love the bog
By Saffron Maeve
The Lubitsch touch in The Shop Around the Corner
By Nick James
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“It was fairly anarchic…” Nick Broomfield recalls Greek cinema under the stars with all-natural extras
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Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
By Katie McCabe and Isabel Stevens
Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
By Thomas Flew
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