LUX FILM PRIZE DAYS
EL REINO (THE REALM)
Watchable. Feels exotic from the start - a politician is arrested for corruption. I wonder if it has ever taken place in Poland since such a thing is possible only in a country of law. Dynamic cut, shot mostly with close-ups, great techno rhythm, vivid colours typical for Spanish cinema. The film doesn't make it clear what exactly the case is but you quickly get it's about politics seen as if from within. Ends with a journalist's question which stays in your mind.
COLD CASE HAMMARSKJOLD
Watchable. The story's just incredible and unsettling. Unfortunately it's presented chaotically, certain subplots get so entangled it leaves loose ends. Yet the evidence gathered points at a clandestine organization, bankrolled by the white government of South Africa and of the UK in the 1950s/60s which, on the one hand, tried to eradicate blacks from Africa spreading AIDS at the guise of inoculations and to profit from the continent's resources - the latter successfully. Africa would be a totally different continent now if the UN Secretary General, who wanted to return the resources to the indigenous population, hadn't been assassinated.
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