Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky opened the Berlin International Film Festival Thursday night with a defiant call for for artists and cultural institutions to “take a stand” in the war in Ukraine and to support his country and his people in their fight against Russian aggression.
“Can art be outside politics, can cinema be outside politics [when] there is a policy of aggression…when there is total war?” he asked, rhetorically, in a video address to the Berlinale audience. “That is the politics of today’s Russia.”
“Culture chooses a side when it decide to speak out against evil,” the Ukrainian President said, “and it takes a side when it remains silent and in fact helps the evil.”
Playing to his audience of film buffs, Zelensky chose a movie metaphor to make his point: citing German director Wim Wenders and his 1987 classic Wings of Desire, which, Zelensky said, “broke the Berlin Wall two years before it fell…...
“Can art be outside politics, can cinema be outside politics [when] there is a policy of aggression…when there is total war?” he asked, rhetorically, in a video address to the Berlinale audience. “That is the politics of today’s Russia.”
“Culture chooses a side when it decide to speak out against evil,” the Ukrainian President said, “and it takes a side when it remains silent and in fact helps the evil.”
Playing to his audience of film buffs, Zelensky chose a movie metaphor to make his point: citing German director Wim Wenders and his 1987 classic Wings of Desire, which, Zelensky said, “broke the Berlin Wall two years before it fell…...
- 2/16/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Facebook may or may not have recently threatened to shut down operations in the European Union after it made known some issues it has with its current data transfer schema.
The world's largest social media site has been known to have data privacy issues. European watchdogs like their privacy. They also don't like the manner in which Facebook sends the data it receives in the EU back to its data centers in the United States. But Facebook wants to do whatever's economically viable and easy for Facebook, so the company stated in its recent 10-k annual report that, "if a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted and we are unable to continue to rely on SCCs or rely upon other alternative means of data transfers from Europe to the United States, we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram,...
The world's largest social media site has been known to have data privacy issues. European watchdogs like their privacy. They also don't like the manner in which Facebook sends the data it receives in the EU back to its data centers in the United States. But Facebook wants to do whatever's economically viable and easy for Facebook, so the company stated in its recent 10-k annual report that, "if a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted and we are unable to continue to rely on SCCs or rely upon other alternative means of data transfers from Europe to the United States, we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram,...
- 2/18/2022
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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