MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Global struggles get northern exposure
JO STANLEY reports on the Leeds International Film Festival
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
AT A time of acute focus on xenophobia and struggles for global domination, it’s perhaps unsurprising that nazi politics in Germany, European exploitation of indigenous peoples and the history of social struggle in remote corners of the globe were some of the most visible themes in this year’s wide-ranging festival.
The excellent Arctic Encounters strand, worthy of a festival in its own right, had some fascinating juxtapositions.
Robert J Flaherty’s classic 1922 silent documentary about Inuit life, Nanook of the North, would have been unwatchable if viewed after, not before, two Inuit ripostes — Dominic Gagnon’s Of the North, released this year, and Mark Sandiford’s 2006
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ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
RITA DI SANTO talks to Scottish-Irish filmmaker MARK COUSINS about his new panorama of world cinema The Story of Documentary Film
RITA DI SANTO takes us through the prize winners, and takes the temperature of a festival that prioritised narratives of exile, state violence and class division
Rita Di Santo speaks to Hungarian director LASZLO NEMES about his new film, a portrait of the French Resistance leader and hero, Jean Moulin