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ActNowFilm

27 November 2023

Youth leaders and world figures featured in new ActNowFilm, to premiere at COP28 call for young people to be included in national climate negotiation teams and global decision-making.

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Disaster at 37,000 feet

06 January 2020

Cambridge 探花直播 Library archive reveals the facts behind the Hollywood myths of ' 探花直播Aeronauts'

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Still from Fire at Sea, the Oscar-nominated documentary by Gianfranco Rosi

Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker comes to Cambridge

09 May 2017

Hailed as 鈥渙ne of the most important artists in any medium鈥, the award-winning and Oscar-nominated Italian documentary filmmaker聽Gianfranco聽Rosi聽is coming to Cambridge this month as filmmaker-in-residence at Cambridge 探花直播鈥檚 Centre for Film and Screen.

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Life and death

Questions of life and death

04 November 2016

An ambitious began last week with a discussion of a remarkable documentary. Filmed in a pioneering hospice, 探花直播Time to Die addresses a subject that remains taboo for many. Joining the conversation are health professionals, medical students and members of the public, as well as those interested in film and ethics. 探花直播series continues on 9 November 2016.

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Screenshots from D.W. Griffith鈥檚  探花直播Lonely Villa (1909)

Grand designs: the role of the house in American film

27 May 2016

It鈥檚 black and white, silent and just short of ten minutes in length. But D.W. Griffith鈥檚 1909 classic 探花直播Lonely Villa inspired Dr John David Rhodes, Director of Cambridge鈥檚 new Centre for Film and Screen, to look at the role and meaning of the house in American cinema.

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How real is the science in Star Wars?

18 December 2015

探花直播anticipation is over: 探花直播Force Awakens is with us. To a self-confessed geek like Karen Yu from the Institute for Manufacturing, this is like all of her Christmases coming at once. It also raises some very important questions: what is the Force, how do you make a lightsaber 鈥 and does the new film finally put to rest the ghost of 探花直播Phantom Menace?

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Still image from the Ukrainian documentary 'Twilight'

Bringing Ukraine to the screen

06 November 2015

Over the past eight years, the 探花直播 of Cambridge has become Britain鈥檚 pre-eminent showcase for documentary and feature films from and about Ukraine.聽

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Stills from the Kendall III film

A glimpse of India

26 October 2015

Kevin Greenbank, archivist at the Centre of South Asian Studies, explores the ways in which the home movie offers fascinating insights into the lives of those in front of, and behind, the camera 鈥撀燼s rare footage of a 1935 Raj picnic shows.

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