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After glimpsing his great-great-grandfather on-screen, a writer searches for the history of a landmark silent film.

During a six-month residency with Alchemy Film & Arts, Mark Lyken developed Notes from a Low Orbit, a feature-length study of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, where Alchemy is based. Lyken reflects on making the film and its rapturous hometown premiere.

“This is a reel of film that is deteriorated and brittle. It will never be brought back to life,” Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI) chairman Tony Lan (藍祖蔚) said at the institute, holding aloft a canister from a collection of more than 18,000 Taiwanese movies, to help visiting lawmakers fully understand the race against time to find a new home for the institute’s film archive center. Lan and his staff have for years been collecting and preserving copies of films made by Taiwanese directors from around the world in their archives. However, as the institute’s hodgepodge ...

Workers of the world, unite! And also watch these films from all over the world exploring workers' rights and the power of unionisation.

Hungarian physicians have to sign a new contract by the end of this week to be able to continue working in public care after March 1st. Under the new agreement, the base salary of doctors will increase significantly, but there might be a major setback in the additional benefits, so much so that for some it could fully negate the promised pay increase. As a result, employees of several hospitals across the country seem to be rejecting the contract, endangering the proper functioning of the healthcare system. Major wage hike for doctors but only with strict conditions Parliament approved the bi...