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Cinema Minima has international reports

Cinema Minima features reports filed by its International Correspondents in East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya), India (Bombay|Mumbai), South America (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; São Paulo, Brazil), and Europe (Copenhagen, Denmark; London, England). These intrepid filmmakers and journalists are working hard to provide you with news — and expert opinion — about cinema in their own regions. Each is doing superb work. The extracts published here are but samples of the riches you will discover at their Cinema Minima Correspondents web logs:

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