Filmmakers such as Sean Baker have shot entire movies on their iPhones. Blackberry is arguably the first biopic of a mobile phone choosing as its subject the mobile phone made famous by President Barack Obama when he entered the White House. It's only a matter of time before iPhone the motion picture is hitting our screens.
Their return to rule is unequivocally bad for the country’s women and girls. But wholesale collapse has not come and some aspects of government have improved; it turns out threats of grotesque violence change behaviours. We investigate the curious case of Morocco’s absent king—and his unlikely mixed-martial-artist pals. And how the mobile phone has shaped cinema for half a century.
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