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Strawberries
While discussions of migration tend to focus on young, single men, Laïla Marrakchi turns her attention to women…
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Women on Trial
Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller’s Women on Trial dramatises the landmark 1972 Bobigny trial, in which a teenage…
By Christina Yang
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Diamond
Andy Garcia’s Diamond opens with the elaborate morning routine of its titular private investigator, Joe Diamond (Garcia), who…
By Christina Yang
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Minotaur
There are no front lines in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur. Instead, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes itself felt through…
By Christina Yang
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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Director Bassam Tariq and lead actor Mahershala Ali first met when they were both hired to work on…
By Sunny Morgan
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
In 1972, filmmaker William Greaves brought together some of the surviving leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance at…
By Christina Yang
Live music
Ed O’Brien at the Barbican
Think of Radiohead, and Ed O’Brien is not necessarily the face on the billboard. As the glue and…
By Mark Worgan
Play
Angel’s Bone at London Coliseum
Director Kip Williams makes his UK opera debut with a disturbing and explicit depiction of innocent victims forced…
By Chloe Vilarrubi
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Fjord
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu asked the important questions at this year's Cannes Film Festival. What is violence: where…
By Selina Sondermann
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Club Kid
Multi-hyphenate Jordan Firstman first entered the spotlight as the lead actor in Sebastián Silva's Rotting in the Sun…
By Selina Sondermann