GORDON PARSONS is bowled over by a skilfully stripped down and powerfully relevant production of Hamlet
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
In which we accompany the Bard into Cymru to meet his musical accomplices, young and old
SUE TURNER is inspired by the example of a librarian’s struggle to confront the book-banning movement
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews I Am Martin Parr, September Says, The Monkey, and The Gorge
RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
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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