Radical film

Watching Welcome to Leith weeks after the shooting in Charleston the stakes are high. The film has at its centre the white supremacist Craig Cobb and is being seen around the world at a time when the reality of racist violence is (momentarily) (…)

An interesting and well-meaning documentary, The Divide presents audiences with a frequently mentioned, though infrequently interrogated, phenomenon- the divide of the rich and the poor in the Western world. The film begins with a quote from (…)

This is one for the francophones amongst you.... Calling La Ligne de Couleur a documentary about the French “minority” experience would be reductive. It is this and much more. It is also a quietly moving and intimate collection of personal (…)

Enemies of Happiness/ Vores lykkes fjender is a powerful exploration of the determination and sheer hard work of Malalai Joya in the ten days leading up to the 2005 Afghanistan elections-the first democratic parliamentary election in over 30 (…)

MLK was vilified during his life, martyred after his death and has proved more valuable dead than alive. Now his words are hijacked to support everything from conservative ’individual responsibility’ initiatives to sales during his birthday (…)

Beauty Is is a 2-hour documentary about the attitudes and opinions of Black British women and men on the meaning of Black beauty. For women. The film argues that complex processes of internalised racism and alienation have arisen as a result of (…)

’American Idol’ owes me, big time. Whilst they didn’t clip my wings during an audition by highlighting my average singing talent, their on-screen auditions showcasing amazing, (allegedly) undiscovered vocal talent has served to divert my (…)

’The Invisible War’ is less about a secret war that rape victims are fighting in the military than a series of public and private battles to fix a broken system. Well, broken for the victims of rape, not so much for the rapists who remain (…)

Qu’a-t-on le droit de dire sur les O.G.M. ? On pourrait résumer ce documentaire par un proverbe de conséquence : dis-moi qui tu es, je te dirai ce que tu peux dire. Árpád Pusztai, biochimiste et répondant en outre au titre de « lanceur d’alerte (…)

De ce qui se passa en 1973 au Chili, il en est question et il n’en est pas. Du coup d’état de Pinochet et des horreurs qui s’en suivirent on en entend parler et l’on en entend rien non plus. De la folie des hommes et d’un homme en particulier, (…)