Many young people find right-wing politics ‘cool’ today and marginal people caught between different digital bubbles find a new obstacle to being themselves. Making a film was a way to look into the personal and political story of someone changing their gender identity. It was a ‘cinema therapy’ for Monika and had a deep impact on everyone involved.
Culture
Life, love and death in Sicily
The Photographers’ Gallery has become the first port of call for photography exhibitions in London. One of the current exhibitions focuses on the work of Letizia Battaglia who was born in Sicily in 1935 and died there in 2022. Sean Sheehan A fearless campaigner for the rights of […]
Testimonies, daily life and letters to Palestine
Its writer and director, Bolivian filmmaker Sergio Eguino, has said that the media and networks tend to see the victims of the Palestinian conflict as numbers. Jorge Petinaud Martínez The leitmotif: five Palestinians, living far from their homeland, narrate their experiences in the face of Israel’s escalating interference […]
Lesia Diak: The pity of war
Very few people want to be documented, especially when it comes to the larger social traumas of the separation of Ukrainian soldiers from their loved ones. It is not an anti-war film, – Ukraine has no choice but to resist – but it refuses to turn away from the effects of war on families at home.
Three books on Lenin
Lenin’s support for the rights of nations to self-determination, is made clear in Imperialism and the National Question. Three other books from the same publisher throw more light on him. Sean Sheehan “Lenin’s childhood” gathers what is known about the third child of Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov and Maria […]