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The Best Films of 2024 with Maria Duarte
To the fore: women’s unique visions, perspectives and marked creativity in front of and behind the camera
MESMERISING: Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley in The Substance (2024)
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MARY CONWAY applauds a new play that foresees the unscrupulous tactics of a future far-right minority government
RON JACOBS is moved to tears by an eloquent journal of heartfelt intensity and human portraiture
ROBERT OVETZ recommends a case study, from the University of Leicester, in their struggle against precarization, AI, privatisation, outsourcing, and work intensification in higher education
IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a lucid critique of a technology that reproduces and enables oppression, power, and environmental devastation
SIMON PARSONS applauds an impassioned demonstration of the fundamental role of women in the history and protection of the forest ecosystem
IT HAS been an extraordinary year for film, with women at the vanguard, both in front of and behind the camera, in works tackling sexism, ageism, female oppression and the sex trade.
It has been a wealth of riches and so has proved very difficult to choose between them but here are my top films of the year.
Bread & Roses — Afghan film-maker Sahra Mani’s powerful and harrowing documentary shows in real time women in Afghanistan fighting back against the misogynistic Taliban regime’s attempts to erase them from society by removing all their civil rights. From being able to work and get an education, to walk outdoors on their own and be free to talk who they please to outside their homes.
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