We watched, we read, we listened: New Internationalist’s favourite films, books and music from last year.
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We watched, we read, we listened: New Internationalist’s favourite films, books and music from last year.
A compassionate and inspiring film about the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco.
Filed in: Film
Fifty years after the UN Secretary-General’s death, are we any closer to the truth?
Filed in: Culture
What if the Germans had invaded the Welsh valleys during the Second World War?
Filed in: Film
Director Céline Sciamma doesn’t shy away from harsh realities, yet Tomboy is still a trusting gem of a film.
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Feature films can tell us much about the cultural background to recent events in North Africa and the Middle East. Malcolm Lewis has been watching some of them.
Nokia in the dock in a new film by Danish director Frank Poulsen.
Filed in: Film
The new album by Norwegian artist Jenny Hval is astonishing - as much about poetry and story-telling as performance, says Louise Gray.
Filed in: Music
‘Unmasking the mystery of how life transforms’ - does Frank Ryan’s book live up to its sub-header?
Filed in: Books
Filed in: Books
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled by the tactics used by a website to raise money for poor Indian children. But do the ends justify the means?
‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
With capital punishment debates resurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.
In some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
Alan Hughes can’t believe the nerve of the London Mayor, who’s trying to dupe people into cleaning up the capital ahead of the Olympics.
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