It’s a very difficult feeling being a migrant and watching from afar. I get depressed, frustrated and miserable. And you want to talk about things that Colombian society is really interested in talking about and needs to do so in order to move forward, they will kill you or threaten you and your life begins to be martyrdom. Or simply they’ll close the doors because in Colombia, even if some topics are talked about, there’s a conscious and unconscious pressure not to discuss certain topics, which we have to shed light on. Otherwise, we won’t be able to move forward and it is a historical mistake to focus solely on Bogota, Cali, Medellín or Barranquilla: Colombia’s much bigger. We have a debt to multiple communities and multiple stories that we haven’t told in Colombia. … [Read more...] about TIFF Filmmaker Lab Talent Jorge Cadena Talks About Indigenous Queer Project ‘Tropical Malady’
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India’s Modi faces turbulent session as Parliament reopens
It includes laying out measures to revive an economy that shrank by nearly 24% in the last quarter, the most of any major country, and trying to stop a virus surge worsened by a weak and underfunded healthcare system. Other moves could be attempted to mitigate rising unemployment and solve a bitter military standoff with China, three months after their deadliest military confrontation in decades. … [Read more...] about India’s Modi faces turbulent session as Parliament reopens
