EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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RITA DI SANTO reports on an outstanding competition
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MEXICAN director Alfonso Cuaron and his jury gave the festival’s Golden Lio top prize to the rookie Venezuelan film-maker Lorenzo Vigas’s From Afar.
Set in Caracas, it tells the story of the wealthy Armando (Alfredo Castro), middle-aged and struggling to connect to others emotionally, who develops an obsession with young petty criminal Elder (Luis Silva, pictured).
Their first encounter is a violent one but this doesn’t discourage his fascination with the handsome teenager.
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