Every once in a while, a film becomes more interesting for the silence around it than for the prize it receives. That is the case with There’s No Place Like Home, a documentary about the mass departure of ethnic Armenians from Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region in the autumn of 2023. The film won the Best First Feature award at the third Croatian International Film Festival, held in the Dalmatian coastal city of Šibenik from 24 to 27 July. It was not a glamorous premiere at Cannes or Venice, but a modest event on the Adriatic, with entries submitted through the FilmFreeway…

The conclusion of a legal battle, even one that never reached a courtroom, often leaves a residue of unresolved questions. Such is the case with Canadian musician Ashley MacIsaac, whose defamation lawsuit against tech giant Google has been quietly withdrawn, leaving a gap where answers about accountability and digital harm might have been. The Juno-award winning fiddler, a vibrant and often controversial figure in the Celtic music world, had launched the suit earlier in the year, a move that captured the public’s imagination because of the surreal nature of the offense. It stemmed from a false accusation, generated not by…