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‘They first come for great acts of culture’: Cate Blanchett sets up grant for displaced film-makers
Actor and UN refugee ambassador delivers warning on authoritarian regimes as first five film-makers announced for funding
Authoritarian regimes “first come for great acts of culture” when they start to curtail civil liberties, Cate Blanchett warned as she launched a new grant for displaced film-makers. Its pilot version is bestowing a grant of €100,000 (£84,000) to five film-makers – Maryna Er Gorbach (Ukraine), Mo Harawe (Somalia, Austria), Hasan Kattan (Syria), Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran) and Shahrbanoo Sadat (Afghanistan) – whose short films will premiere at IFFR 2026. “History has shown us that when authoritarian regimes start to curtail civil liberties, they first come for great acts of culture,” Blanchett told the Guardian on Friday.
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