Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Meet the Palestinian Mandela
MARIA DUARTE recommends a compelling documentary that exposes the vengeful cruelty towards Palestinians ingrained in Israel’s legal and penal systems
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Tomorrow’s Freedom (12A)
Directed by Sophia Scott and Georgia Scott
★★★★
“MARWAN BARGHOUTI is somebody who has the potential for leadership, but the Israelis put him in jail and threw away the key, didn’t they,” says Lindsey Hilsum (international editor Channel 4 News), the only Western journalist to have interviewed in prison the man described as the Palestinian Nelson Mandela and who is widely believed to be capable of unifying the Palestinian people.
He has spent more than two decades in an Israeli prison, three in solitary confinement (being beaten and tortured), convicted of murder and declared a terrorist.
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