Yamustafa!

Meryl Streep Iranian Oscar-Winning movie in a movie theater in Israel! Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" won 5 technical Oscars, including best screenplay. The more glamorous Oscars went to the silent black and white movie "The Artist". Best actor went to the French Jean Dujardin in the "Artist". Elegant super-actress Meryl Steep kept collecting prizes on her role as the "Iron Lady". She took home 2012 Oscar Best Actress. Best supporting female actress went to Octavia Spencer and Best supporting male actor went to old-timer Canadian Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music) . Iranian Asghar Farhadi's "Separation" won Best Foreign Language Movie. Among films from other countries on this category was the Israeli movie "Footnote"! Winners rejoicing! French Oscar-winning actor J. Dujardin 2012

But Lots of Dying Everywhere! It's true; an inconvenient truth, though! I am not talking Syria or Iraq but the other man-made disasters that are sending planet Earth into the environmental apocalypse!! Probing into the huge number of cinema/movie festivals around the globe and their close occurences, I stumbled on such festival names as Goya Awards,Nica Awards, Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival or Thessaloniki Int'l Film Festival. Lots of them! But I found myself inclined to narrow my interest to revisiting the non-fictional movies in recent years. The prophetic or premonitional kind of depiction or the exact opposite, the optimistic, life-affirming one!  The reason must be obvious. This is 2012! The year of the ultimate prediction! No matter to what degree what is circulating is just hype. Nature seems to favour this premonitional scary talk by sending a mild winter to Canada but also giving Europe a surprise dumping or setting the ice on fire in Iceland. A...