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Solidarity with Assange
BRETT GREGORY speaks to Australian director Kym Staton about his new film about Julian Assange, released in Britain tomorrow
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RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
KYM STATON is the Australian director and producer of the 2023 documentary, The Trust Fall, a 126-minute rumination on the 15-year political evisceration of the journalist, activist and WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, who has been indicted under the 1917 US Espionage Act, and incarcerated in Belmarsh prison in London since 2019.
The release of this film in Britain and Australia comes in the wake of Assange’s final appeal at the Supreme Court on February 20-21, amid cacophonous coverage from the international media.
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