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Oscar-winner Walter Salles, fresh from scoring the best international feature statuette for “I’m Still Here,” discussed the impact of his political drama on youth audiences in Brazil and underlined the importance of cinema as “an extraordinary tool of resistance” while attending the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra workshop in Qatar.

“I’m Still Here,” the story of Brazilian activist Rubens Paiva’s 1970 disappearance at the hands of the Brazilian military dictatorship and his wife Eunice Paiva’s subsequent search for justice, recently marked a historic first Oscar win for Brazil. Salles also pointed out that the film has now been “embraced by young generations of Brazilians” for whom it provided “access to a part of their history that had somehow been hidden.”

”The film has become their film,” Salles added, noting that Brazilian youths “took possession” of “I’m Still Here” and then “went to social media to narrate their own stories...

Bogota: City of the Lost begins with the impact of the 1997 Asian financial collapse. For Kook-hee and his family, this economic turmoil drives their escape from a disintegrating South Korea to Bogotá’s chaotic streets. The film establishes a cultural conflict that shapes the narrative. What emerges is an immigrant story intertwined with a tense, crime-driven drama where survival tests physical and moral limits.

The story explores ambition, betrayal, and global economic pressures. Kook-hee transforms from a timid newcomer to a significant figure in a Korean-run smuggling operation in Colombia. The narrative reveals power dynamics between characters and within Kook-hee’s internal struggles.

Loyalty becomes fragile as ethical boundaries blur, leading toward an inevitable confrontation. While the central plot follows a familiar trajectory of an underdog becoming a leader, the tension between Korean immigrant experiences and Colombian surroundings creates compelling dramatic depth.

The film explores an emotional journey where Kook-hee...

Abbas Kiarostami is to head the Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury of the 67th Cannes Film Festival.

The Iranian director and screenwriter has been nominated for the Palme d’Or five times and won in 1997 with Taste of Cherry.

The 2014 Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will also include directors Noémie Lvovsky (France), Daniela Thomas (Brazil), Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad), and Joachim Trier (Norway).

They will be tasked with awarding three prizes to films submitted by students from film schools around the world, which will be presented in the Cinéfondation Selection, to be announced at a later date.

The Cinéfondation Prizes will be announced by the Jury on May 22, at a ceremony to be followed by a screening of the winning films.

The Jury will also decide the Short Film Palme d’or to be awarded at the prize-giving ceremony on May 24.

Kiarostami rose to international fame with Where is the Friend’s Home (1987) and went on to present...