Released on: 2004
Rating: 6.80
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Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, London
What a wonderful world it isn't. But despite the global sweep of conflict, oppression, torture and other abuses dealt with, this festival is never a depressing experience. Instead it's the power of information in action, a vivid picture of what's going on in the world and how to change it. There are hot-button topics like Arab democracy (The Green Wave, on Iran's 2009 elections) and the war on terror (You Don't Like The Truth – 4 Days Inside Guantбnamo, The Oath), but there's also powerful drama, like family mystery Incendies or Belgian immigration saga Illйgal, and even heartwarming stories like A Small Act, on the far-reaching consequences of a charitable donation.
Various venues, Wed to 1 Apr
Werner Herzog, London & Nationwide
You'd think the German veteran had seen it all, but he keeps finding new wondrous sights to show us. In recent years that has included cash»
- Steve Rose
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From film-making to cake-baking
Sandra Bullock and her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, no longer work together, but they are still close
It's not every day that your pastries are served by a film star, but for residents of Montpelier, Vermont, that's what happened the day a new cake shop opened in town – and Sandra Bullock arrived to work behind the counter. As she boxed up sticky buns and worked the till, the Oscar-winner joked with the assembled news crews that she wouldn't be depending on the shop for a full-time job. And, indeed, she wouldn't: she had shown up to support her sister, for whom the cake shop was a passionate new venture.
For Gesine Bullock-Prado – at 40, six years younger than Sandra – the cake shop was a career change. She had spent nine years working for her sister's production company, Fortis Films. To outsiders, she was living the Hollywood dream – there were A-list parties, a»
- Melissa McClements
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