MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Global struggles get northern exposure
JO STANLEY reports on the Leeds International Film Festival
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
AT A time of acute focus on xenophobia and struggles for global domination, it’s perhaps unsurprising that nazi politics in Germany, European exploitation of indigenous peoples and the history of social struggle in remote corners of the globe were some of the most visible themes in this year’s wide-ranging festival.
The excellent Arctic Encounters strand, worthy of a festival in its own right, had some fascinating juxtapositions.
Robert J Flaherty’s classic 1922 silent documentary about Inuit life, Nanook of the North, would have been unwatchable if viewed after, not before, two Inuit ripostes — Dominic Gagnon’s Of the North, released this year, and Mark Sandiford’s 2006
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RITA DI SANTO takes us through the prize winners, and takes the temperature of a festival that prioritised narratives of exile, state violence and class division
Rita Di Santo speaks to Hungarian director LASZLO NEMES about his new film, a portrait of the French Resistance leader and hero, Jean Moulin
STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI