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Musa Hadid, the middle-aged, mustachioed and overextended mayor of Ramallah is meeting with staff to discuss a Christmas tree lighting. Among the details to be ironed out: several Santas rappelling down buildings, a flash mob and zeppelins. Well, not really zeppelins. An aide suggests that this word sets up expectations that would be tough to meet. “Balloons!” he insists, “They’re all just balloons.” This scene, which arrives early in David Osit’s documentary “Mayor,” about Hadi...

Vice Media Group, SBS Australia renew content partnership deal Millennial-skewing media brand Vice Media Group has extended its partnership with public broadcaster SBS Australia with a renewed content deal for SBS’s Viceland channel and digital platforms. Under terms of the ... December 15, 2020 Millennial-skewing media brand Vice Media ...

The 25 Best Documentaries of 2020 Though the pandemic has all but murdered moviegoing in 2020, for the lowly documentary film, the distribution landscape has never looked more promising. Often relegated to festivals and then, if fortune-favored, Netflix or HBO, documentaries rarely receive the attention or the right platform to reach more than a specialized audience. If it seems like 2020 was a particularly bright year for documentaries, that might be because you could actually watch many of th...

Australian fans of Shortland Street can rejoice - New Zealands most successful long-running television soap is coming to free-to-air television in 2021, at its new home, SBS VICELAND. The hugely popular Kiwi soap is set around the goings-on at a fictional Auckland hospital, and has a reputation for dealing with complex social issues in an inclusive and engrossing way. Shortland Street will premiere on Monday 11 January, with fast-tracked episodes of season 29 airing weeknights at 5:40pm.  I...

Evil, upcoming Rotterdam, I Love You) plays a journalist besieged by trolls who decides to strike back. Ivo van Aart directed from a screenplay by Daan Windhoorst. Sitges selection Tailgate explores the consequences when a man on a road trip with his family angers a psychopath in a road rage incident. Lodewijk Crijns directed and wrote the screenplay. The film earned best film and director nods at Netherlands Film Festival, and won for sound design. Both films will receive a theatrical releas...

As the dust settles on this week's announcement that current Mayor Jenny Durkan will not seek a second term, there are already meaningful conversations taking place about what this means as well as who should be the one to take on the job. There's one film that can offer some insights, despite it being set a world away in the city of Ramallah, Palestine. That film, the documentary Mayor, spotlights Ramallah's leader, Musa Hadid, as...