The West African folklore took home the World Cinema Dramatic: Special Jury Award for Cinematography. Accepting the award on behalf of the Director of Photography, Lílis Soares, Obasi said, “It means a lot…. This was a dream, we worked so hard on this. A testament to what we were trying …
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Take a walk through the woods and countryside of Wales and you enter a magical, liminal space – a threshold where history and legend, fact and fiction seem to merge and become one. Woodlands, caves, lakes and streams have long been at the heart of Welsh folklore. In some Welsh …
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Scotland is, has been, and always will be a veritable storyland. A compendium of crafty narratives and trenchant fables. There couldn’t be a more fitting celebration than Year of Stories 2022 for a country so brimful and buzzing with the bravura of words. Scotland is our novelists: Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting …
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