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The South Korean selkies
MARIA DUARTE recommends a homage to fearless, independent and empowering elderly women
The Last of the Sea Women - South Korea's natural marine divers
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RICHARD MURGATROYD is intrigued by a study that asks why the ability to diagnose outstrips the ability to cure
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
The Last of the Sea Women (PG)
Directed by Sue Kim
“BEING an haenyeo is a calling,” states one of the extraordinary protagonists in Sue Kim’s enlightening directorial debut feature about a little-known but fierce band of women in South Korea.
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