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Unexpected humour and reflections on a complex past: my top 5 films from the 2025 German Film Festival

Foreign audiences often associate German cinema with tragedy, trauma and death. Certainly, major historical events such as the second world war and the Fall of the Berlin Wall — cornerstones of German film — are present in this year’s selection at the 2025 German Film Festival.

The Conversation

How did Hitler’s film-maker hide her complicity from the world?

A new documentary delves into controversial German film-maker Leni Riefenstahl’s private archive to uncover a director who spent a lifetime covering up her central role in the Nazi propaganda machine

The Guardian - UK

Riefenstahl proves that the best documentary subjects are monsters

INSIDE FILM: The Nazi propagandist is seen in a startling new film repeatedly refusing to talk about her relationship with Hitler – and it’s the kind of upset that has always fuelled cinema’s very best documentaries, writes Xan Brooks

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Trump Uses 'Full Metal Jacket' Character Killed By One Of His Own Marines To Portray His Ideal Military

He highlighted the role of R. Lee Ermey as the tough-talking drill sergeant in the anti-war movie from 1987.

International Business Times

Inside Noah Davis' rich, cinematic world

Nearly a decade after Noah Davis' passing, a touring retrospective sets out to bring his work to a wider audience

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Riefenstahl review – deep-dive study takes down the Nazis’ favourite director

Andres Veiel shows how the film-maker loved by Hitler hit the heights with her Berlin Olympics movie – and how she tried and failed to save her Nazi-tinged reputation

The Guardian - UK

Film suggests Nazis’ lead propagandist had role in 1939 massacre

Letter in Leni Riefenstahl archive appears to claim her set instructions led to deaths of Polish Jews, says director

The Guardian - UK

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It’s the art Olympics! The 20 greatest ever sporting artworks

From ancient fist-fighters to futurists on bikes, from starchy archers to a naked runner frozen in time … as the Games kick off in Paris, our critic ranks the finest depictions of sport in art

The Guardian - UK

On Women by Susan Sontag review – the reluctant feminist

Susan Sontag’s mixed feelings towards the movement that propelled her career

The Guardian - UK

Author’s discovery of book about Nazi Olympics inspired Belfast novel

Fionola Meredith’s book The Stamp Of Beauty is set in post-Troubles Northern Ireland.

The Independent UK

Bannon compared Trump escalator ride to Leni Riefenstahl Nazi film, book says

New book says Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will ‘flashed’ through Bannon’s mind and that former adviser repeatedly invoked Hitler

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