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The Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente is on through April 22. Diego Lerer's not only posted his own recommendations but also gathered more from Gabe Klinger, Robert Koehler, Jaime Pena and Neil Young. What's more, the Ferroni Brigade has programmed a series of midnight screenings featuring Croatian martial arts icon Bore Lee.

In other news. Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard Jury at Cannes (May 16 through 27).

The North American premiere of Woody Allen's To Rome with Love will open the Los Angeles Film Festival (June 14 through 24).

Cinema Eye has released a statement of protest against the Us Department of Homeland Security's ongoing harassment of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras signed by 60 people in the community, over 40 of them filmmakers themselves.

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What a difference a year makes! Just after World War II, hundreds of French citizens who like Maréchal Pétain and Pierre Laval collaborated with the Nazi regime, became "resistance fighters." So it seems in Germany as well, as tens of thousands, perhaps millions of Germans who shouted "Heil Hitler" became "disgusted" with everything to do with Nazism, particularly with the Holocaust. With the film "Harlan-In the Shadow of Jew Süss," writer-director Felix Moeller deals with a filmmaker who quite obviously collaborated with the Nazi ideology in that he made anti-Semitic films while glorifying the Third Reich but who, like Adolf Eichmann and so many other top criminals, caviled that they were forced to do as the apparatchiks commanded.Harlan-in The Shadow Of Jew SÜSS (Harlan-Im Schatten von Jud Süß)

Zeitgeist Films

Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten

Grade: B

Directed by: Felix Moeller

Written By: Felix Moeller

Cast: Stefan Drössler,...