Tears and applause: Gaza tragedy recreated in film that stuns Venice • FRANCE 24 English

Tears and applause: Gaza tragedy recreated in film that stuns Venice • FRANCE 24 English

[Music] [Applause] [Music] The world will know you as pop stars. [Music] Hello and welcome to Arts 24. We begin at the Venice Film Festival where a powerful new film about a little girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza last year received a 23minut standing ovation at its premiere. The voice of Hayen Rajab is directed by Tunisian filmmaker Ker Benha. Critics have called it the most powerful and urgent entry of this year’s festival. The screening left much of the audience and many journalists moved to tears. Here’s the director. This movie was very important for me because when I heard the first time the voice of Hendraab uh there was something more than her voice. It was the very voice of Gaza asking for help and nobody uh could enter. Um so uh so yes for me uh it’s important to it was like a kind of uh a strong desire and the feeling of anger and helplessness uh that uh gave birth to this move. The film reconstructs the final phone call of Hind Rajab. In January 2024, she was trapped inside a car wreck in northern Gaza, surrounded by the bodies of other family members after being shot at by Israeli tanks. Hiding beneath a seat, Hine called the Palestinian Red Cresant for help. But both she and the medics who tried to reach her were killed by Israeli forces. The film uses the real phone recordings of Hines’s final moments interwoven with a dramatized portrayal of the Red Cresant team coordinating her rescue. Here’s actor Saraja Kilani speaking on behalf of the filmmaking team. The voice of Hindra does not need our defense. This film is not an opinion or a fantasy. It is anchored in truth. Hinn’s story carries the weight of an entire people. Her voice is one amongst tens of thousands of children that were killed in Gaza in the last two years alone. It is the voice of every daughter and every son with the right to live, to dream, to exist in dignity. Yet all of it was stolen in front of unblinking eyes. And these are only the voices we know. Behind every number is a story that never got to be told. Brad Pit, Jonathan Glazer, Wackim Phoenix, and Alfonso Quiron are executive producers on the film that premiered in Venice this week. Asked about the killings, and the IDF said the incident was still under review and declined further comment. Next then, sometimes life imitates art. Big news in the fashion world. Khloe Mal has been named the new editor-inchief of Vogue. She takes over from Anna Wintor, one of the most iconic names in fashion history. Mal is the daughter of actress Candace Bergen and legendary French filmmaker Louis Mal. And here’s where things get meta. Candice Bergen once played Vogue’s fictional editor-inchief on Sex in the City in the same role her real life daughter will now hold in reality. Next to a K-pop animation that’s taken the world by storm and even has the backing of South Korea’s president. K-pop Demon Hunters is Netflix’s most streamed feature ever. It’s also topped the box office in the US with a short theatrical release, and the movie songs have gone viral, making it a triple threat. Yet another win for Korean pop culture. Olivia Sazar Winspear tells us more. [Music] The world will know you as pop stars, but you will be much more than that. Three charismatic singers, dancers, and pop idols who also slay demons to protect their fans. They’re stealing the souls of our fans. That’s the premise of K-pop Demon Hunters, an animated musical which has broken streaming records. It’s not just the film of the summer. It’s the most watched film in Netflix history. With more than 230 million views on the streaming platform, it’s outperformed expectations and buck the trend for remakes with its original story line and characters. A winning formula for its growing number of fans. [Music] For many, it’s the soundtrack that sets it apart. Real K-pop stars provide the vocals and have seen those songs top the charts. [Music] Being able to perform in really big stadiums overseas means more people know us and our popularity has grown. It is amazing to see audiences even learning Korean. After the success of series like Squid Game and the global reach of K-pop music, South Korea’s president emphasized that supporting his nation’s so-called cultural powerhouse is a priority for him going forward. Us South Koreans protest through music and dance. For us, it feels completely natural. But for outsiders, it can look unusual, like why are they dancing with light sticks instead of starting a riot? It’s a beautiful approach, and in the end, that’s how we win. The film has had an extra boost from a run of singalong screenings which sold out movie theaters in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, making it a blockbuster at the cinema as well as on the small screen and making K-pop stars of hundreds of thousands of fans if only for a moment. Now, the film The Roses has landed in Paris, reimagining the cult classic The War of the Roses with a very British sense of humor. It charts the spectacular meltdown of a marriage, swapping Hollywood drama for dry wit and plenty of irony. Eliza Herbert has the story. It was love for you, dear. I’d do anything. I do believe that’s true. It really is. Truly, Ivy, it’s a monster success. Would you do a photo shoot for New York Magazine? Nude. I don’t think so. And then Madly. You’re just making me mad. When Theo’s career falls apart, Iivey’s takes off, and their journey becomes complicated, chaotic, and at times nasty. I just want the house. I built it. Following the footsteps of another well-known couple. I I may have let you have the house, but now you’ll never get it. 36 years after Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas starred in The War of the Roses, Hollywood has brought back the cult classic, but with a modern take. Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman are tasked with the challenges of today’s society. How was your day? The neighbor’s dog shat in the laundry. The kids have got knit together and my left eye is twitching. More champagne for me, please. We can watch them and you can see where bits have gone wrong and they they miss the opportunity to say sorry to each other. And I think all of us who have had any relationships, same-sex couples, you know, throppples as we were saying yesterday, I’m not in a thr prompting reflection on how far some lovers would go to annoy their other half. I would cook something really disgusting. I’d wake you up early. Oh yeah, that would drive me crazy. Once I left a bag of I’m going to say like fairly embarrassing kind of detritus. eat alone and sleep under the duvet. The two actors say that throughout it all they learned some lessons. Be nice to each other. Be charming. Be kind. Humor is very important. I find any couple of any type can walk in and see this film and goof. But for the grace of God, the Roses is a film that promises a touch of sadness, laughter, and tenderness. I don’t think you have the capacity to fix your problems. Are you actually allowed to say that? That seems unprofessional. Yes, like malpractice. The Roses is out in Paris now. Now, it’s been more than six decades since the rise of Beatle Mania. Now, thanks to the discovery of some longlost photos, we’re getting a behind-the-scenes look at the group’s early rise to superstardom. Photographs taken by Paul McCartney are on exhibit in London. Monty Francis has a look at the show at the Gagosian Gallery. [Music] Ringo. [Music] Just as the world was learning their names, Paul McCartney was documenting the rise of Beetle Mania with his 35mm Pentax camera. Like this shot of George, Ringo, and John backstage in London, or this one of John Lennon in Paris on the Shaniz. The mostly black and white photos cover a two-month period between December 1963 and January of 1964, just as the Beatles were on the cusp of worldwide stardom. What’s interesting about the Paris Pictures is that in the early days of the residency, they’re able to walk the streets really without uh too much fuss. They’re being followed by a small group of photographers, a handful of fans, but they’re able to kind of be out in the out and about on their own. After a tour in their home country, the Beatles performed a three-week residency at the Olympia Theater in Paris, a move meant to widen their appeal beyond the UK. They began 1963 really relatively unknown outside of Liverpool and Hamburg. But that started to change and change it did. When they arrived in the US, Beetle Mania exploded. McCartney’s photos of the band’s Panama flight to New York in February of 1964 are among the snapshots thought to be lost for nearly five decades and which resurfaced during the pandemic. McCartney is behind the camera but appears in this self-portrait taken in the reflection of a mirror in the attic of his then girlfriend’s family home where he wrote the melody for the song Yesterday. Six decades later, he’s giving us an intimate look back at the Beatles before they became among the most photographed people on the planet. And that exhibition runs until October the 4th. Now, we’re going to leave you with a French film that’s premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Francois Ozen’s adaptation of Albert Camu’s cult novel, The Stranger. Shot in black and white, the film follows a young French man living in colonial Algeria in the 30s who kills a man on the beach and is put on trial. The Venice Film Festival wraps up this weekend. Thanks for watching. See you next time. [Music] [Music]

In this episode of arts24, we begin at the Venice Film Festival, where a harrowing film about a five-year-old girl killed during an Israeli assault on Gaza, entitled “The Voice of Hind Rajab”, received a 23-minute standing ovation. Directed by Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania and executive produced by Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix and others, the film uses real phone recordings to reconstruct the child’s final moments, leaving audiences visibly shaken and critics calling it the most urgent entry of the festival.
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