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WINNING FILMS OF 2021 ANNOUNCED Best film exposé: Wife of a Spy, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa Best film on human rights: Held for Ransom, directed by Niels Arden Oplev and Anders W. Berthelsen Best film on peace: Margrete: Queen of the North directed by Charlotte Sieling. Best film promoting democracy: no award. All four directors […]

DEADLINE APPROACHING TO CAST FINAL BALLOT TO DETERMINE WINNING FILMS Thanks to members of the Political Film Society, the nominated films have been reduced to no more than five for each category. From the list below selection ONE (1) film that you believe is deserving of an award for the best film in each of

FINAL BALLOT TO DETERMINE WINNING FILMS Thanks to members of the Political Film Society, the nominated films have been reduced to no more than five for each category. From the list below selection ONE (1) film that you believe is deserving of an award for the best film in each of the four categories. Select

THE VIRTUES AND REPRESSION OF FALUN GONG ARE REVEALED IN UNSILENCED In the 1990s, an organization known as Falun Gong was introduced in China by Li Hongzhi. Unsilenced, a film based on true events though mostly fictional persons in 1999, exposes a period of Chinese history that few around the world fully understand due to

MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR PROVIDES ANOTHER WINDOW INTO WORLD WAR II Films about World War II are endless, and Munich: The Edge of War fills a gap about the Munich Agreement of 1938. However, the story is based on the 2017 novel by Robert Harris, who wrote the novel that became the film Enigma,

VOTING TO NARROW THE LISTS OF BEST FILMS FOR 2021 CONTINUES There were seventeen nominated films in 2021 as filmviewing opened up around the world. Political Film Society rules, based as they are on the Academy Award rules, require a maximum of five films in each category. To narrow the lists, members are entitled to

IF YOU SEE DON’T LOOK UP, YOU MAY LAUGH OR JUST BE DISGUSTED Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay, is supposed to be a satire of life in the United States from the humblest to the mightiest. During the Obama Administration, a mission to explore an asteroid was launched, though plans did not come

AMEN. IS THE BEST FILM ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST EVER MADE On January 30, 2003, a film was released in Hollywood and soon nominated by the Political Film Society for best film exposé and best film on human rights for the year. A second review of that biopic/docudrama follows: Amen. begins during 1940, in early years

AS NOMINATIONS CLOSE FOR BEST FILMS OF 2021, VOTING TO NARROW THE LISTS BEGINS There were seventeen nominated films in 2021 as filmviewing opened up around the world. Political Film Society rules, based as they are on Academy Award rules, require a maximum of five films in each category. To narrow the lists, members are

BEING THE RICARDOS IS MORE ABOUT LUCY THAN RICKY Life in Hollywood is often chaotic. Many persons work through their personal ambitions and tensions on a day-to-day basis by playing acting roles, but they may never reach their secret goals. Being the Ricardos, directed by Aaron Sorkin, is a window into that life, serving mostly