MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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MARIA DUARTE believes much can be learned from a documentary that charts the fate of one victim of the infamous rendition practice
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
The Confession: Living the War on Terror (15)
Directed by Ashish Ghadiali
4/5
Former British Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has been held on suspicion of terrorism in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cuba and Britain yet he has never been brought to trial — nor has he ever been convicted of a single crime, which is important to state.
In Ashish Ghadiali’s thought-provoking debut documentary Begg gives an insightful and personal account of the realities of living the war on terror.
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