The Holocaust documentary \”Shoah\” is being broadcast in Iran. The 1985 documentary by French director Claude Lanzmann was scheduled to be presented this week on a satellite channel and is dubbed in Farsi. Satellites are banned in Iran, but many Iranians have them and therefore could watch the film, which includes survivor testimony.
Director Steven Spielberg has purchased the screen rights to the WikiLeaks story. Spielberg bought the rights to \”WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange\’s War on Secrecy,\” written by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, the Guardian reported Wednesday.
One day after an Oscar went to the 40-minute documentary “Strangers No More,” about the Bialik-Rogozin School in south Tel Aviv and its undocumented students from 48 countries across the Third World — a 12-year-old girl named Esther who stars in the movie is facing probable deportation from Israel, along with an estimated 120 of the 800 pupils in the school.
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