Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Thursday, October 22, 2026
Most people’s lives are lived within social, legal and political structures that are hard to challenge, but when those structures fracture and invade the life of a family it is like an emotional earthquake. The Italian film “Toni, mio padre” portrays a personal struggle to understand the past and challenges the political taboo on discussing that period.
Most Filipinos are poor, and migration is part of the culture, often to countries that colonised them. Life in a Catholic country where divorce is illegal is very hard when families need one member to migrate. Women workers often live in conditions of domestic slavery, where a private life is impossible.
It is a post-industrial film in which the apocalypse never happens, an environmental film with a gentle but dark humour. It is called “Can I get a witness?” and will premiere in London on 17 September at Curzon Bloomsbury. Two days later, on the 19th, it will be released in […]
After a long battle with cancer, the well-known film director Luis Ospina died. In 2018 he gave an extensive and exclusive interview to The Prisma and he talked about the unsteady history of cinema in Colombia. Beginning in his native city of Cali he was part of the renaissance that […]
A film made for cinemas is especially original because it forms part of an upcoming mini-series about refuges for women suffering from domestic violence. The violence may have stopped, but the feelings of loss of personal space and even identity are new challenges to be grappled with in unfamiliar surroundings. […]
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