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Dogma 25 announced at Cannes, as directors launch ‘cultural uprising’
A new collective seeks to reinvigorate cinema in the mould of Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 movement, with a 10-point manifesto opposed to the internet
El-Toukhy is joined in Dogme 25 by film-makers Milad Alami, Annika Berg and Isabella Eklöf, and visual artist Jesper Just, 50, though the movement is open to allowing further members. Photograph: Photos 12/AlamyThe low-budget ethos of Dogme 95 films such as Vinterberg’s Festen and Von Trier’s The Idiots went on to have a profound influence on contemporary cinema in Europe and beyond. The new movement’s 10 rules commit its followers to working from a script that “must be original and handwritten by the director”, to only accept funding “with no content-altering conditions attached”, and to have “no more than 10 people behind the camera”.
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