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direct to your inboxMore than 100 people who had previously refused or ignored the coronavirus vaccine offer have now had the jab - after being contacted in their mother tongue.A multilingual team called dozens of people of Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds in south Manchester to answer questions and “debunk vaccination myths”.The volunteers - translating into Urdu, Punjabi, Kurdish, Arabic and Bengali - rang people identified by GPs at Ladybarn Group Practice, Al-Shifa Medical Centre and David Medical centre to discuss specific concerns.As a result, 110 people had their vaccinations at Chancellors Hotel, in Fallowfield, where more multilingual staff and translated materials were available.Fiona Vincer was part of the team that

EXCLUSIVE: Joel David Moore and Rishi Bajaj’s Balcony 9 is teaming with Pop Front Pictures for Stefan vs. ISIS, a feature film that has script from C.C. Kilpatrick and Zach Stentz.

For the students at a remote boarding school for Kurdish boys, survival is a matter of course, particularly during the frigid depths of winter. The meals are meager, the heating doesn’t work, and even the principal’s car won’t start.

Of the many types of documentary films, Oscar-nominated director Gianfranco Rosi has identified one genre he describes as “complaining and explaining.”

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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA group of people had to dash for safety after six Syrian brown bears being released back into the wild charged at them.The animals had been taken in blue steel cages to the mountainous Gara region of northern Iraq by the American-Kurdish Cooperation Organisation to be released back into the wild. Each bear was lined up facing the snowy wilderness with a group of spectators including police, reporters, and members of the general public watching on.

Keeley Hawes says her expectations “weren’t particularly high” regarding viewer interest in her two-part TV movie “Honour,” which premiered last fall on ITV in the UK.“It wasn’t a mainstream subject and not something many people knew about,” Hawes, 44, says of “Honour,” which chronicles the 2006 murder of a young British-Iraqi Kurdish woman, Banaz Mahmod, by members of her own family, based in southwest London. The 95-minute movie, written by Gwyneth Hughes, makes its US premiere Feb.

Kurdish community to ignore Covid-19 conspiracy theories that are spreading “out of control”.Shakha Sattar has launched a campaign to get more people from his community to “get the jab, save a life” while combating myths about the vaccines.Shakha said the Kurdish community - Christian and Muslim - had been blighted by myths - debunked at numerous times by various sources - that the vaccine contained animal products that make it non-permissible religiously.

Jessica Kiang Mahmud is on his cellphone and he can’t get through. It’s the first image in Hogar Hirori’s startling “Sabaya,” an intense, deeply embedded documentary following the painstaking and perilous rescue of Yazidi women (a Kurdish religious minority), from enslavement by ISIS, aka Daesh.

Gianfranco Rosi waited three years to get the shot. It's a short scene in Notturno, Rosi's new documentary, which is Italy's submission for the 93rd Academy Awards in the best international feature category, as well as a best documentary feature contender.

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A crack shot British sniper killed five ISIS terrorists with a single bullet from over half a mile away.

For his documentary Notturno, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi did the unthinkable—spend most of his time in the field without a camera.

Through war-ravaged streets Syrian life ebbs and flows with a veneer of normality – but danger and threat are never far away.

There have been countless documentaries about the Middle East and the people that are living during the perpetual war. “Notturno” aims to be a little different than most of the docs.

mum and her newborn baby were left fighting for their lives after they both developed a deadly infection during a traumatic labour. Sophie Goudie, 21, and her son Ledwan contracted sepsis after Ledwan became distressed in the womb forcing medics to deliver him via emergency C-section.

Super LTD, Neon's boutique distribution division, has acquired the North American rights to Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary Notturno after a debut at Venice and play at the virtual Telluride, Toronto, New York film festivals. The film, shot over three years across Lebanon, Iraq, Kurdistan and Syria, was named by Italy to represent the country in the 2021 Oscar best international feature race.

Neon’s boutique label Super Ltd has acquired North American distribution rights to Notturno, the feature documentary from Gianfranco Rosi that recently was submitted by Italy to be that country’s submission to the 2021 International Oscar race. No word yet on a release plan for the pic, which bowed at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

A teenage girl who sparked a widespread UK search when she disappeared from her family home has reportedly been found six years later in a camp for ISIS brides in Syria.

Italy has picked Notturno, an observational documentary by director Gianfranco Rosi (Fire at Sea) to be its 2021 Oscar contender in the best international feature category. Rosi shot Notturno over three years across Lebanon, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Syria.