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Can you be an executioner and a victim at the same time? This bold question is the one Theatre of Violence tries to answer outside the obvious means of an unprecedented court case, and outsiders with their own views on the matter. Ugandan Dominic Ongwen is the first former child soldier ever to be indicted …
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The first documentary on my schedule for this year’s Canadian International Documentary Festival, is Italy’s Sconosciuti’s Puri, or Pure Unknown. Directors Valentina Cicogna and Mattia Colombo follow Dr. Cristina Cattaneo as she pleads for the rights of the nameless dead. Every day, numerous unidentified bodies, classified as “pure unknowns” find their way into the autopsy …
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