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Historian, Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London
Country of origin
Great Britain

Dr. Daniel Wildmann, Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London, and Senior Lecturer in History at the Queen Mary College of the London University, has researched and published about National Socialism, anti-Semitism, the history of the body and visuality. At present he works on a study entitled "A Visual History of Anti-Semitism, Emotions, and Morality" which highlights especially German films since the silent era.

 

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Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.

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