Dreflix: Newsreel 63 – The Train of Shadows

Newsreel 63 – The Train of Shadows

How to relate the first Lumière film about a train to dangerous scenes shot on a smartphone by contemporary refugees hidden between iron wheels? The maker is part of an activist movement striving to revive the independent, critical newsreel efforts of the 1960s and 1970s.

2017

0h 38min

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