#Michal Englert

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The Other Lamb (2019), dir. Małgorzata Szumowska

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Dark Crimes (2016)

Directed by Alexandros Avranas

Cinematography by Michal Englert

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Top 10 reads of 2024

I haven't been as active here in 2024 as in other years, but I still feel like sharing my top 10 fo the year. No idea how, but I managed to read 52 books overall - the goal was 49 and I honestly thought I wouldn't reach it... Let's see which books were the best of the bunch to me :)

Kallocain by Karin Boye

Extremely beautiful dystopian novel. I feel like this is what people think 1984 is when they get disappointed by it (I'm saying this as a compliment). It's the story of a scientist who lives under an oppressive totalitarian state, and discovers a potent truth serum. 10/10, would recommend to everyone ever to read this.

2. Summer by Ali Smith

Don't ask me why I began reading the seasonal quartet from the last book, but so far this is the only one I read and... I loved it. It made me emotional in all the best ways. This has raised the stakes for the other three books of the series (I plan on reading Autumn in 2025 but why knows, might take me another two or three business years to actually do it).

3. All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir

I think I should tell you that I picked up this book by chance from my mom's bookcase - as usual she knew she read it and remembered nothing of it. This novel felt like a slap in the face, and I don't understand how people can't always remember it after having read it. This is the story of an immortal man who regrets his immortality, and somehow it's an in-dept analysis of humankind's mortality and... I don't know how else to describe it if not the aforementioned slap in the face. Absolutely majestic.

4. The Biggest Prison on Earth by Ilan Pappé

This book should be mandatory in every school but alas. I don't think it's a good recommentation for people who never approached the subject of the history of Palestine, but I think it could still prove extremely useful to people who are interested in the topic - and let's face it, we all should be.

5. Act your age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Took me ages to finally finish the Brown sisters series, and I loved this third instalment just so much. I think Eve and Jacob are a great exaple of well written enemies to lovers - or whatever "sorry I accidentally run you over with my car, let me help you run your B&B" is supposed to be. It's my favorite trope and it better be done like this more often.

6. Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I think I'll remember this novel for the wrong reason - it's so far the only book by Moreno-Garcia I didn't give 5 stars (I gave it a 4.75 so I should really just shut up). But I really enjoyed it, as it's written well, the characters are compelling, and it takes place in a moment in the history of Mexico I didn't know much about, which made it a good reason to do further research, something I always like. And, may I say? It has one of my favorite endings in all the Moreno-Garcia books.

7. From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine ed. Sai Englert, Rosie Warren, Michal Schatz

Extremely upset I didn't have access to this while I was writing my Master's thesis (don't care if it has been published 2 years after my graduation ok). Please read this if you can.

8. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

First book I read completely in 2024 and it was GREAT. I spent the year looking for Bloodmaker at my usual bookshop, but I will end up having to order it on their website. I need to know how the story goes, ok? This book wins the Best Plot Twist of the Year award to me (which means it's the best written, the one with the best build up, and not done for shock value).

9. Bite by Bite: Nourishment and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

World of Wonders, which I read a couple of years ago, is still one of my favorite books. This is basically the food version of it, so how could I not love this one too? it's so caring, so loving, so beautifully written: I can't ask anything else from a book.

10. Our wives under the sea by Julia Armfield

I'm not good with books that scare me. This scared me just enough to be able to finish it and still be so full of dread I could cry. If you're not a whimp like me you will probably think this is very tame, but to me the not knowing will always be more upsetting than the knowing.

Honorable mentions

I decided to put in the top 10 only books I read for the first time last year, but it was also a year I allowed myself some re-reads, which I think still deserve to be mentioned. Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo was maybe even better than I remember it, and I remember loving it dearly on the first read as well. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, which I listened to as audiobooks but read ages ago, cemented themselves as some of my favorite classics.

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From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine

Edited by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz and Rosie Warren

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From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine

Edited by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz and Rosie Warren

In the final months of 2023, as this ebook is published, Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Israeli officials have repeatedly made their intentions to do so extremely clear; talking of collective punishment, mass murder, and ethnic cleansing in newspapers, at press conferences and on television. All the while, European and American states have continued to support Israel, to claim its murderous campaign is justified self-defence, and to send weapons, troops, war boats and spy planes in support. While Western governments have supported the unjustifiable, or spoken inane words of condemnation while failing to take any concrete action, millions around the world have poured into the streets to denounce their complicity, to demand a ceasefire and a free Palestine. From the River to the Sea collects personal testimonies from within Gaza and the West Bank, along with essays and interviews that collectively provide crucial histories and analyses to help us understand how we got to the nightmarish present. They place Israel’s genocidal campaign within the longer history of settler colonialism in Palestine, and Hamas within the longer histories of Palestinian resistance and the so-called ‘peace process’. They explore the complex history of Palestine’s relationship to Jordan, Egypt, and the broader Middle East, the eruption of unprecedented anti-Zionist Jewish protest in the US, the alarming escalation in state repression of Palestine solidarity in Britain and Europe, and more. Taken together, the essays comprising this collection provide important grounding for the urgent discussions taking place across the Palestine solidarity movement.

With contributions from: Dr. Reda Abu Assi, Asmaa Abu Mezied, Tawfiq Abu Shomer, Khalil Abu Yahia, Dunia Aburahma, Spencer Ackerman, Hil Aked, Dr. Yousef Al-Akkad, Jamie Allinson, Dr. Hammam Alloh, Riya Al’Sanah, Soheir Asaad, Tareq Baconi, Rana Barakat, Omar Barghouti, Sara Besaiso, Ashley Bohrer, Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, Nihal El Aasar, Mohammed El-Kurd, Sai Englert, Noura Erakat, Samera Esmeir, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Toufic Haddad, Adam Hanieh, Khaled Hroub, Rashid Khalidi, Noah Kulwin, Saree Makdisi, Ghassan Najjar, Samar Saeed, Reema Saleh, Alberto Toscano and Eyal Weizman, alongside a number of Palestinian writers published pseudonymously. Published in collaboration with Haymarket Books. Cover design: Tom Greenwood.

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Haymarket Books has been giving away three ebooks (and added a fourth since last I checked!) since October 11th. Their statement:

“Publishing books on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of Haymarket’s mission since we published our first book, The Struggle for Palestine, in 2001. Now as ever, we recognize the root cause and ongoing perpetrator of violence in Palestine to be Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid, and we stand in solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle for freedom.

We also believe that books, as tools for education, analysis, combatting misinformation, and inspiration, have a vital role to play in the global Palestine solidarity movement. In that spirit, we’ve made four crucial books free to download:”

From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine - Edited by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz, and Rosie Warren

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights - by Omar Barghouti

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire - Edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction - Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

Seriously if you can’t financially help or go to protests wrt palestine the second best thing you can do is learn history and talking points by heart and be ready to bring it up with people you know. There’s never “nothing you can do”. There’s no shortage of books and documentaries made by Palestinians you can find for free on the internet you have no excuse to not educate yourself especially if you actually want to help

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Recension: Jag är kvinna (biofilm)

Malgorzata Szumowska och Michal Englerts filmresa tog fart på den legendariska filmskolan i Łódź, som fostrade storheter som Wajda, Kiéslowski, Polanski. Tillsammans debuterade de med en kort dokumentär 1998, Szumowska stod för manus och regi, Englert för fotografi. Samarbetet har fortsatt sedan dess. Med prisbelönta filmer som “Body” (2015) och “Face” (2018) har de nått hög festivalstatus. Även…

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Haymarket Books: From the River to the Sea eds. Sai Englert, Michal Schatz, et al.

Free Palestine Reading List

Haymarket Books: Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!

Verso Books: Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

OR Books: THE FREE PALESTINE READING LIST

City Lights Books: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha

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cinema | Venice Film Festival : the participants

The participants of the competition program of the 80th Venice Film Festival have become known. Among them: the picture of Luc Besson "Dogman", the film by Sofia Coppola "Priscilla" about the relationship between Priscilla and Elvis Presley, their family life and divorce, as well as the second directorial work of Bradley Cooper - the biographical film "Maestro" about the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein (in Cooper himself will play him in the film).

Main Competition

The Commander Directed by Edoardo De Angelis Promised Land Directed by Nikolai Arcel Dogman Directed by Luc Besson Premonition directed by Bertrand Bonello "In the Off Season" Directed by Stefan Brize Aeneas Directed by Pietro Castellitto Maestro Directed by Bradley Cooper Priscilla Directed by Sofia Coppola Dawn at Last Directed by Saverio Costanzo "Lubo" Directed by Giorgio Diritti Origin Directed by Ava DuVernay The Killer Directed by David Fincher "Memory" directed by Michel Franco I'm the Captain Directed by Matteo Garrone "Evil Doesn't Exist" Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi Green Border Directed by Agnieszka Holland The Theory of Everything Directed by Timm Kroeger "Poor Unfortunates" directed by Yorgos Lanthimos The Count Directed by Pablo Larrain Ferrari Directed by Michael Mann Adagio Directed by Stefano Sollima "Woman" directed by Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert Holly Directed by Fin Troch

The film festival this year will be opened by the film "Commander" directed by Edoardo de Angelis. The opening film was originally supposed to be The Pretenders by Luca Guadagnino, starring Zendaya, but the premiere was delayed due to a cast strike. The closing film will be Juan Antonio Bayona's thriller "The Society of the Snow".

American director Damien Chazelle ("La La Land") became the chairman of the international jury of the Venice Film Festival this year, the jury of the festival also included director and screenwriter Jane Campion ("Power of the Dog"), director Laura Poitras ("All Beauty and Bloodshed" ), director Mia Hansen-Löw (Bergman's Island) and playwright and director Martin McDonagh (Banshee Inisherina).

The film screening will be held on the island of Lido (Italy) from August 30 to September 9.

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Woman of… de Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert

Un film de Michał Englert ,Małgorzata Szumowska Avec: Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Joanna Kulig, Bogumiła Bajor, Mateusz Więcławek, Jacek BraciakAdam, trying to be a good husband and father in a small town in Poland. But Adam starts to feel increasingly uncomfortable in his body, one that doesn’t reflect his true identity.

Retrouvez l'article complet ici https://lemagcinema.fr/microcritique/woman-of-de-malgorzata-szumowska-michal-englert/

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The Congress (2013)

Director - Ari Folman, Cinematography - Michal Englert

"Ultimately, everything make sense. And everything is in our mind."

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The Other Lamb (2019), dir. Małgorzata Szumowska

Cinematography by Michal Englert

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Win Never Gonna Snow Again On Blu-Ray

Win Never Gonna Snow Again On Blu-Ray @PicturehouseEnt #win #worldcinema

Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert‘s critically acclaimed Never Gonna Snow Again is released today Monday 31st January on Blu-ray and Digital in the UK and Ireland . Courtesy of Picturehouse Entertainment, fancy winning a Blu-ray copy of this fabulous film? When a mysterious stranger arrives in a gated community on the outskirts of a large Polish city, he is welcomed by the wealthy residents…

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Gli invisibili. Cosa vedere al cinema dal 12 novembre

Gli invisibili. Cosa vedere al cinema dal 12 novembre

Cosa vedere al cinema dall’ 12 novembre? Torna la nostra rubrica di cinema poco visibile. Vi segnaliamo e consigliamo i film in sala con una bassa distribuzione, le pellicole poco pubblicizzate che meriterebbero di essere conosciute. Correte a cercarli nella vostra città prima che vengano tolti, oppure se non li trovate, segnateveli per recuperarli in futuro.   Un Anno Con Salinger (Canada,…

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The Harvesters (Die Stropers), Etienne Kallos (2018)