The Oscars of world cinema (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

I've been coming to the Cannes Film Festival for a couple of decades, mainly to watch and, at times, to write about movies. And I've seen it grow and expand in many directions; commercially, artistically, and culturally, but it has generally maintained a degree of integrity and independence, notably from the inescapable dominance of American cinema

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