DocHouse offers a large variety of documentaries this summer and the opportunity to attend a seminar given by the director Joshua Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer dedicated a whole decade to making The Act of Killing, which some critics have classified as a new genre of documentary in which the perpetrators […]
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Bernado Kucinski, ‘K’ and the disappearances in Brazil
The Brazilian journalist that has published the English version of ‘K’, a novel about a father searching for his missing daughter during the Brazilian military dictatorship, speaks to The Prisma about the great reception it had received among critics and the public. Benjamin Serra Bernardo Kucinski, journalist and university […]
María López: Homosexuality and literature in Cuba
In the last few years, the regime of Fidel Castro has introduced substantial changes with respect to sexual liberty, intending to eliminate the strain of institutional homophobia in the country, although discrimination is still present in certain areas. Benjamin Serra María E. López is an academic at London Metropolitan University […]
The epitaphs of a poet
“Until the next time, friend, until the next time, /I carry you in my heart, my dear. This predestined separation /offering a meeting somewhere else. /Until the next time, friend, do not feel sad, /without offering my hand I go, without words. In this life, death is nothing new/ nor […]
Are there skeletons in IKEA’s closet?
The Swedish furniture manufacturing giant may have used forced labour in the 70s and 80s, using political prisoners from communist Germany and Cuban criminals to assemble its products. These are the claims made by prisoners who worked in the jails, and that are shown in supporting documents from the East […]