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‘The Roof (2006)’: Uncovering the Perspectives of Arabs in Israel
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‘The Roof (2006)’: Uncovering the Perspectives of Arabs in Israel

Arab citizens of Israel are being used as scapegoats to defend the genocide charges against the country. If it was genocide, they ask, why aren’t they being murdered as well? The Roof is an insightful documentary that explores the perspectives of Arabs living there and helps us understand their experiences in the midst of this conflict.

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Musings on music and physical media with 'Recto Records' director Jego Rafael
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Musings on music and physical media with 'Recto Records' director Jego Rafael

Amid minimalism and technology, Mang Greg continues to set up shop each day in Recto, surrounded by albums ranging from The Beatles’ Abbey Road to Avril Lavigne’s The Best Damn Thing. Read our interview with director Jego Rafael on ‘Recto Records,’ still streaming on Cinemata.

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Fearless and Uncontained: The Ambitious Cast of Sinepiyu XVI
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Fearless and Uncontained: The Ambitious Cast of Sinepiyu XVI

“Be liberated from convention,” goes Sinepiyu in their program invitation (arbitrarily translated by me). It’s not just a challenge posed to the filmmakers participating in the film festival, but it’s also a dare for future audiences: to suspend everything they think they know about student cinema and permit themselves to experience the new, the perverse, and the ambitious.

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Behind Black Beret 2024: Talking to UP Student Filmmakers
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Behind Black Beret 2024: Talking to UP Student Filmmakers

In this year’s edition of Black Beret, student filmmakers from UP Film Institute presented stories about unconventional friendships, long-lost loves, and grief amidst personal transformation.

We interviewed three of the directors this year, namely Coby, Raia, and Hanns, read Sofi’s feature for more:

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