Cat City (Macskafogó) is a full length feature cartoon set in the year AMM 80 (After Mickey Mouse.The premise of thi Hungarian film, which was made in 1986, is that the cats of the world had decided to wage war and wipe out the mice of the planet for once and for all. In the [...]
![Jessica, A Slave In Our Times [Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sumiati_tki_yang_dianiaya_majikannya_di_arab_saudi_1011161624351.jpg)
Most of us have never known a slave. They have no name, and no face. Their situation is tragic, yet entirely alien to us. In the past, warriors captured prisoners as booty, and sold or kept them as slaves. The Saudis have a far more sleek and modern system of enslavement. They advertise lucrative jobs [...]
![Scientists Present Intelligent Design to Laymen [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/CharlesDarwin10028229p.jpg)
The arguments of evolution versus creation theory are all too often presented as a battle between religion and science. In reality, the scientific world, governed at its core by a simple mandate to question everything. This includes things within science itself that can calcify into dogma and impede understanding. On the matter of evolution, the [...]
![Film of the Day: The Good Soldier Schweik [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/good-soldier-schweik.jpg)
Globe Tribune.Info is pleased and delighted to be able to present “The Good Soldier Schweik” in Czech with English subtitles. Written by Czech anarchist Jaroslav Hasek, it portrays a soldier who through a mix of incompetence and passive resistance, amages to expose the absurdities of militarism and war. The book has been translated into [...]
![Film of the Day: Good Bye Mary Poppins [Video With Subtitles]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Good-bye_Mary_Poppins.jpg)
It is easy to think of the communist east and the capitalist west as being totally separated by an iron curtain, past which nothing but the weather could pass.In an oddly refracted form, “Good By Mary Poppins”, a wild Soviet era comedy film in two parts, shows that western films reverberated in the east as [...]
![17 Moments of Spring, A Classic Soviet Miniseries [Video Links]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Seventeen_Moments_of_Spring.jpg)
The former Soviet Union and its citizens were deeply traumatised by the “Great Patriotic War” that we know as World War Two. It could be argued that the 20 million Soviet war dead were victims of Stalin’s paranoia as much as from Nazi aggression, since Stalin’s misplaced trust of Hitler from 1939 to [...]
![The Magician’s Hat [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The-Magicians-HAt.jpg)
There is no doubt that the United States is a leader in the production of animated films. There are, however many animated films made in languages other than English outside the US that are of stunning artistic quality. The Magician’s Hat was produced in Croatia by the Croatia Film company and directed by Milan Blažeković. [...]
![Film of the Day “Stolen Eyes” of Bulgaria [Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Stolen-Eyes-220x300.jpg)
In the mid 1980′s in Bulgaria, the communist government of Todor Zhivkov undertook a campaign of forcible Bulgarisation of its 10% Turkish minority. Ethnic Turks in Bulgaria were forced to adopt Bulgarian names. Often, even brothers were hastily given different family names. Over 300,000 Bulgarian Turks fled hastily into neighbouring Turkey, aided by a law [...]
![“Strangers” and “Offside”, Two Short Films by Erez Tadmor [Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Erez-Tadmor.jpg)
Erez Tadmor is a film maker who produces short films, many of which address Jewish Arab relations. A recurring theme of his videos is the manner in which Jews and Arabs are locked into conflict by forces beyond their control, aware of common humanity but unable to fully realise a peacefully shared coexistence. The three [...]
![Yiddish References in Classic Cartoons [Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/yiddish-hillbllies.jpg)
In the early days of cartoons,there were Jewish animators from immigrant backgrounds. It was not yet apparent how important the film industry would be or what image it wished to project. In those early days, Openly Jewish characters showed up in the cartoons. Sometimes it was accents or intonational patterns that told knowledgeable viewers that [...]
