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🎞️ Did you know that the world’s most famous film festival was born from a political dispute with Fascist Italy? 🎥 Created in response to censorship and propaganda, #Cannes became a symbol of artistic freedom on the French Riviera. 👀France 24’s Stella Elgersma takes a closer look.  Source link

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The first African Social Media Influencers Summit opened in Addis Ababa on Friday, bringing together digital creators, content producers, media personalities and communication experts from across the continent.This story is written and edited by Global South WorldThe summit, held at the Adwa Museum, was organised by Pulse of Africa and AGA Tech Enterprise as a platform for African creators to challenge negative global narratives about the continent.Organisers said social media has become a powerful tool for Africans to tell their own stories, promote tourism and investment, and influence public policy.Obsa Abdissa, an Ethiopian influencer with more than 437,000 TikTok followers,…

In his new book, the highly respected academic and writer, Ugandan Mahmood Mamdani, revisits the era dominated by Uganda’s dictator, Idi Amin and looks at his legacy as it plays out today under President Yoweri Museveni. Review, in two parts, by our East Africa correspondent. Part one is available here.  Part 2: The Amin and Museveni regimes When the National Resistance Movement (NRM) headed by Museveni, took over the reins of government on January 26, 1986, the country was in dire financial straits. Museveni’s government swallowed a bitter pill and adopted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) structural adjustment programme and devaluation.…

I’m a sucker for time travel stories. I grew up watching Seven Days (1998–2001), and it was one of the first shows of its type to really pull me in. The premise was simple: a classified U.S. program could send one man exactly seven days into the past to prevent any number of disasters. That man was Frank Parker, played by Jonathan LaPaglia. An episode usually opened with a terrorist attack or a political assassination, something with real gravity and stakes, and then the NSA would initiate “Project Backstep” to fix it.Quantum physics gets pulled in as a kind of…

Jessie Buckley takes the title role in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 21st-century retelling of a 1930s silent movie, and film critic Emma Jones explains why her performance alone is worth the ticket price. We also discuss some of the criticism the film has received for its feminist stance and assess Christian Bale’s turn as the lab-made monster. Actor-director Andrea di Stefano offers a very personal story in “Il Maestro”, plunging us into the Italian tennis scene of the 1980s, with Pierfrancesco Favino as a troubled, charismatic coach. Meanwhile, Cherien Dabis’ sweeping epic “All That’s Left of You” sees the actor-director weaving her…

“There is an appeal to the simplicity of 16th-Century interiors and an honesty in the materials used,” says interior and architectural designer Guy Goodfellow. “This simplicity did not re-emerge until the Arts and Crafts movement [of the late 19th Century], when it came as a relief after the heaviness of the Victorian period.”In a 16th-Century manor house on Dartmoor, Goodfellow has hung a tapestry on the wall, a nod to Tudor and Jacobean practice, when prized rugs were displayed vertically or draped over tables rather than slung underfoot. Floors, often simply packed earth or stone flags, were strewn with scented…

Mauritania has taken a significant step toward strengthening its economy after signing a $1 billion five-year framework agreement with the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC). The agreement, covering 2026–2030, aims to expand trade capacity, strengthen key sectors, and support long-term economic development. The deal was signed during an official visit by Mauritania’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Development, Abdallah O. Souleymane O. Cheikh-Sidia, to the headquarters of the Islamic Development Bank Group in Jeddah. The agreement was finalized with ITFC Chief Executive Officer Adeeb Yousuf Al Aama, alongside senior representatives from both institutions. Under the framework, ITFC will mobilize…

“The Bechdel Test” started as a joke in one of her comic strips before becoming one of the most famous measures of gender representation in film. Now, acclaimed American cartoonist Alison Bechdel has joined forces with French critic Iris Brey for their new essay, “La Véritable Histoire du test de Bechdel”. FRANCE 24’s Charli James speaks with Bechdel about the true story behind the test, how it feels when your name becomes more famous than you, and how she uses humour to empower the queer community in the Trump era. Source link

Luckily, he’s not quite alone. It turns out that another spacecraft is on the same mission from a different planet, and it, too, has just one living occupant, a crab-like alien made of lumps of stone (a puppet, with some digital tweaking). The jovial Rocky, as Grace calls him, builds a corridor between the two ships, and Grace learns to talk to it via his computer, which can translate its R2D2-ish burbles into English (the main puppeteer, James Ortiz, provides its chirpy voice). Interplanetary chat is a lot easier here than it was for Amy Adams in Arrival.More like this:• Maggie…