EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Focus on women is a winner
Maria Duarte believes the 62nd edition of the festival has, without being memorable, provided some outstanding offerings
Sudabeh Mortezai’s Joy won the Best Film award
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
THIS year’s BFI London Film Festival celebrated female film-makers, with half the films in the official competition being directed or co-directed by women and Sudabeh Mortezai’s hugely affecting drama Joy (right) won the Best Film award.
For the first time the LFF staged a special presentation outside London with Mike Leigh’s stirring Peterloo screened in Manchester where the 1819 massacre took place.
Though apt, let’s hope this is a one-off because, if it isn’t, they will need to rethink the name of the festival and possibly drop London.
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