Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Monday, November 9, 2026
Making a film while also engaging in a profound conversation with your father about family history is not an easy task. They accomplished it with humour, a lifelong characteristic of their relationship. Graham Douglas Anna Negri continues our conversation about growing up as the daughter of a famous […]
Since the 2009 protests, the Iranian people have become bolder and more desperate to challenge the increasingly repressive regime. Woman Life Freedom is a deeply-rooted movement, which will succeed against the patriarchal religious regime, without the ‘help’ of Trump and Netanyahu’s bombs.
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 […]
.jpg)
