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  TORONTO -- The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a reckoning with many issues, such as elder care standards, attitudes about vaccines, and national and global inequalities in health resources. But in her documentary “In the Same Breath,” filmmaker Nanfu Wang turns a focus to the issue of government misinformation in the early days of the pandemic, and connects the approaches taken by China and the United States. Known for her past documentaries “Hooligan Sparrow” and “One Child Nation,” Wang was visiting family in China not far from Wuhan when news of the initi...

Hot Docs 2021: Nanfu Wang returns to the subject of state propaganda with the intimate investigative COVID-19 doc In The Same Breath

This is the second of a series of articles on films screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, held April 9-18. The first part was posted April 13. The recent San Francisco film festival had an almost inevitably schizophrenic character. Many of its official pronouncements, and this is the case at every festival at present, speak to the current obsession with identity politics in sections of the middle class. To a certain extent, however, the best filmmakers suggest the source of our problems lies elsewhere, in the harshness of life imposed on men and women of every ethnicity...

Human Rights Watch The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 32nd year, will present its second full digital edition of groundbreaking new films, available nationwide in the US from May 19 through 27, 2021. The film festival will feature in-depth online discussions with filmmakers, film participants, and Human Rights Watch researchers and advocates. As the world continues to grapple with the realities of isolation amid a global pandemic, relationships with neighbors and local communities have become increasingly important. This year’s films take a closer look at just how strong these...

(New York)  — The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 32nd year, will present its second full digital edition of groundbreaking new films, available nationwide in the US from May 19 through 27, 2021. The film festival will feature in-depth online discussions with filmmakers, film participants, and Human Rights Watch researchers and advocates. As the world continues to grapple with the realities of isolation amid a global pandemic, relationships with neighbors and local communities have become increasingly important. This year’s films take a closer look at just how strong these b...