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A Brief Overview of The Rise and Fall of CINEMA & JAZZ Idioms in the 20th Century   By G P Solomos (Publisher fiba)

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Brazil again: this time a musical Dois filhos de Francisco (Francisco’s Two Sons), the first full-length film directed by Breno Silveira. Fredric Kroll, who also reviewed the classic Brazillian film Earth in Trance (Terra em transe), directed by Glauber Rocha (see below), reviews this film which is for Brazil what Buena Vista Social Club was for Cuba. HERE

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from JAMAICA to HARLEM Claude McKay the poet tells it as it really is in IF WE MUST DIE

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The greatest masterpiece in the history of Brazilian cinema, “Earth in Trance” (original title: “Terra em transe”), directed by Glauber Rocha (1939 -1981), has recently been restored in high resolution and is being shown in art cinemas all over Brazil now. fiba correspondent Fredric Kroll (current- ly in Brazil) has previewed it for us and reports exclusively about the newly minted version. HERE

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'War opens our souls and demons fly in" Night of Truth or La Nuit de la Verite France/Burkina Faso 100 mins Cert 18 Directed by Fanta Regina Nacro (right) by fiba Editor David Somerset

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WW2 FRANCE Revisited

Marseille born, Robert Guédi- guian (above), directs Le Promeneur duchamp de Mars or The Last Mitterand (right).

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Kaliningrad RUSSIA - In Your Pocket ___________ Baltic Debuts Festival Opens in Kaliningrad Region From fiba's Moscow correspondent Kirill Galetski

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MALTA Cinema better than ever on the little Isle of MALTA Go there HERE

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Report from the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21- May 5)

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Human Rights Film Festival March 18 2005

SOMETIMES IN APRIL directed by Raoul Peck
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Abbas Kiarostami's "FIVE" (Dedicated to Ozu)

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Report from the 55th BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL by Kirill Galetski fiba's Moscow Correspondent

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Return to the Promised Land

London Armenian Film Festival (Feb. 11 - 17th 2005)
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COLONY OF THE NIGER poem by G P Solomos fiba's Publsher

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Sergei Paradjanov A career overview by fiba Editor David Somerset

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"RECLAIMING THE PAST" Report from the 10th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival in San Francisco by Thomas Filmyer fiba's USA Correspondent

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