TheWrap Screening Series
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Meet the Oscar Short Contenders Who Took on Racist Cops, Rape Culture and Mourning (Video)
Six filmmakers who left a lasting impact — in 40 minutes or less — join the TheWrap’s Awards Screening Series
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How Oscar Documentary Short Contenders Tackled Topics From Transgender Kids to Sophia Loren (Video)
The field continues as arguably the strongest specialty category thanks to more intriguingly unique stories
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‘Agnes Joy’ Director Opened Film With Vomit Scene to Capture Characters’ ‘Raw’ Relationship (Video)
“They are strong women, but not perfect,” says director Silja Hauksdóttir of the movie’s inter-generational struggle
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How ‘Notturno’ Director Captured a Middle East Nightmare at the Ground Level (Video)
Italy’s Oscar contender is a dark documentary about survivors of war in Syria and Yemen trying to put their lives back together
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How ‘Circus of Life’ Director Explored Social Media Mobs in a Muslim Community (Video)
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat weaves a tense tale of an elderly Pakistani man whose life is thrown into chaos by Facebook
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How ‘Song Without a Name’ Director Turned Father’s Journalism Into Child Trafficking Drama (Video)
Peru’s Oscar contender explores the dark history of kidnapped children through a mother who faces an unthinkable catastrophe
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John Legend and ‘With Drawn Arms’ Filmmakers on the Inclusion of Late Congressman John Lewis (Video)
“Every time I see him I think about how far this nation has come, but also about how we have to continue to fight,” executive producer John Legend says
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Producer of Turkey’s ‘Miracle in Cell No 7’ on Adapting Drama From Successful Korean Film (Video)
“When I first watched the South Korean version, I also thought about my childhood, my father and my family,” Saner Ayar tells TheWrap
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‘Rebuilding Paradise’: Town Official Talks About Recovering From 2018 Wildfire
Paradise superintendent Michelle John is one of several leaders putting their home back together in Ron Howard’s latest documentary
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‘Tove’ Star Alma Pöysti Explains Her Family Connection to Film’s Subject (Video)
Pöysti’s grandparents were very close friends of illustrator, author, and the ‘Moomins’ creator Tove Jansson
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Why German Anti-Fascist Film ‘And Tomorrow The Entire World’ Couldn’t Be a Period Piece (Video)
“I can’t do only entertaining films or films to escape from the world. I have to do films that react to what is happening in Germany,” director Julia von Heinz says
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How 3 Filmmakers Co-Directed Spanish Oscar Contender ‘The Endless Trench’ (Video)
“We’ve been working together almost for 20 years now,” Jon Garaño tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond
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Why ‘200 Meters’ Director Stripped Politics From Israel-Palestine Drama (Video)
“All I need to talk about is the journey. I was losing the elements that people already know. I was focusing more on the human story,” director Ameen Nayfeh tells TheWrap
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‘Willow’ Director Talks About Telling a Tale of Medieval Motherhood With a Foul-Mouthed Witch (Video)
North Macedonia’s Oscar contender tells three stories about the resilience of women over the centuries
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‘Quo Vadis Aida’ Director Jasmila Zbanic Exposes the Bureaucracy of War From a Female Perspective (Video)
“For me as a woman and maybe the person who survived a war, war has nothing attractive,” filmmaker tells TheWrap’s Joe McGovern
