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Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics

Ray Brooks and Carol White in Cathy Come Home, the BBC film that led to the founding of the homelessness charity Crisis and an act of parliament. verett Collection Inc/AlamyRay Brooks and Carol White in Cathy Come Home, the BBC film that led to the founding of the homelessness charity Crisis and an act of parliament. verett Collection Inc/AlamyArundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politicsFrom ‘honour’ killings to nuclear war, some screen works have led directly legislative action – despite what jury head Wenders suggested at the Berlin film festivalShould film festivals be more than just screenings and red carpets?

Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics

Credit: Theguardian

Key Highlights

  • Should they prompt us to think about the role cinema plays in the world?
  • Novelist Arundhati Roy certainly thinks so.
  • She pulled out of the jury at the Berlin festival in protest at jury president Wim Wenders’ claim that films should “stay out of politics”; she said Wenders’ stance was “unconscionable”, and that to “hear [him] say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping.”Wim Wenders, president of the jury of the Berlin film festival.
  • xel Schmidt/ReutersWenders had suggested that cinema is a way to build empathy, but not directly change politicians’ minds.
  • However this is simply not true.
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