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Tel Aviv has cancelled visits by Israeli youths after Poland insisted it help draw up camp educational content to look beyond the nationalist-pilgrimage narrative

What happens when a film challenges one of Poland's nationalist myths? Barak Heymann found out the hard way when his latest documentary questioned the number of Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust.

Barak Heymann says Polish Film Institute wanted movie on iconic Israeli sculptor to show work dedicated to Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust in positive light

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Last modified on Thu 10 Jun 2021 14.56 EDT An environmental piece over 3km long, titled Axe Majeur (1980-ongoing), in the French town of Cergy-Pontoise, north-west of Paris; Passages (1990-94), a memorial to the philosopher Walter Benjamin in Portbou, Spain; Murou Art Forest (1998-2006) in Japan; and Way of Human Rights in Nuremberg, Germany (1989-93), are among the most celebrated works designed by the artist Dani Karavan, who has died aged 90. Karavan practised various art forms, including pa...

DocsBarcelona unfurls its 24th edition in hybrid format Gunda by Viktor Kossakovsky The 24 th edition of the DocsBarcelona Festival will showcase an extraordinary global selection of the crème de la crème of non-fiction films, with a line-up of 33 features hailing from 33 countries, 11 short films and four titles in the Docs&Teens strand. This year, it will take place in a hybrid format, as it will combine in-person screenings at the Catalonian capital’s CCCB and Aribau Cinema with a progra...

Pnina Halfon Lang • Executive director, CoPro, and head, DocuShuk “The Israeli documentary scene offers a huge variety of stories told by local filmmakers” 10/12/2020 - We talked to Pnina Halfon Lang, executive director of CoPro and head of DocuShuk, to discover how the innovative Israeli digital platform works and what the future could bring Running each spring, CoPro, the Israeli Content Marketing Foundation, is dedicated exclusively to Israeli content. Owing to the pandemic, t...