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‘Ms. President,’ About Slovakia’s First Female Leader Zuzana Caputova, ‘Grey Zone’ Win at Ji.hlava Doc Festival
‘Ms. President,’ about Slovakia’s first female leader, ‘Grey Zone’ Win at Ji.hlava as Tsai Ming-liang picks up Contribution to World Cinema Award.
The director told Variety that constantly forced to face “an aggressively misogynistic atmosphere in society, Čaputová was really tired after five years.” Now, it seems that “the populists have the upper hand.” Moving further away from the region, “The Sky Above Zenica” by Zlatko Pranjic and Nanna Frank Møller won Testimonies with its story of an environmental organization trying to stop a factory from polluting neighboring lands, even as politicians stand idly by. He opened up about his slow-walking main character, inspired by a unique historical figure: Xuanzang, the Tang dynasty monk, who was later featured in Chinese classic “Journey to the West.”
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