The fighting in Ukraine has greatly intensified since the film was made in 2019. Communal sharing is essential for families to deal with the issues that traumatise them. People need a space to tell their stories. Cosumer society encourages a passivity that needs to be overcome. Graham Douglas […]
Culture
Fast and furious tale of racial tension
The place is Los Angeles, the time is the early 1940s, and the US is so hell-bent on building up its navy to defeat Japan that non-white workers are being employed in the shipyards to build new vessels of war. Sean Sheehan Robert ‘Bob’ Jones is one such […]
Right-wing Soldier Monika and the trans dream maiden
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.
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 […]
















