What makes a film political? How do context, risk, relationship to nation, funding and institution, shape the stories that are told and who tells them?

Filmmakers and collaborators from this year’s festival programme discuss the inextricability of politics from the creation, form and lives and afterlives of film and film cultures, and what is lost in insisting in the possibility that film stays out of politics.

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