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"textContent": "The ghost in Joko Anwar’s “Ghost in the Cell” doesn’t haunt – it holds accountable. Indonesian filmmaker Anwar used his Berlinale Forum entry “Ghost in the Cell” to channel societal anxieties about systemic corruption and environmental destruction through supernatural horror, creating a prison-set thriller that treats its genre elements as political instruments rather than escapist […]",
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