MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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JOHN GREEN reports from the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival 2022
Amer Hlehel and Ashraf Farah in Mediterranean Fever
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
WITH the synchronised media overkill on the Ukraine war, you could be forgiven for thinking there was nowhere else in the world where brutal occupations are taking place. This year’s Leeds Palestinian Film Festival attempts to redress that media deficit.
How many of us today are familiar with the miseries and injustices of life for Palestinians after 55 years of illegal occupation, and how the Israeli occupation impacts on every aspect of daily life?
This year’s Leeds Palestinian Film Festival (November 10 to December 9 2022) shines a light on this barely mentioned occupation. In 10 events, the issue of Palestinian rights is highlighted at diverse venues across Leeds.
The programme includes debut Leeds screenings of four new films, including films by Palestinian, Israeli, British, and South African directors. There is a double bill of Mai Masri’s beautiful, inspiring films, plus discussion with campaigning journalist Victoria Brittain, followed by a Middle Eastern buffet.
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