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Couscous (La Graine et Le Mulet)
Kechiche, like Fatih Akin, the Turkish-German film-maker, shows us how the lives of migrants and their children straddle cultures, and, like Akin’s Head-On, Couscous is passionate and earthy.
Toxic blocks
No-one said oil was clean. But Ecuador’s experience of extracting fossil fuels is about as bad as it gets, reports David Ransom.
John McCain
Presidential hopeful John McCain gets the treatment
Killer of Sheep
A beautifully composed episodic study of Stan, a slaughterhouse worker, his family, friends and community.
Cyclone survival
Women in Orissa, India, have ways of dealing with calamity
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Alexandra
What war does to people’s humanity and how, without trust, touch and intimacy, we’re lost.
Linha de Passe
An outstanding realistic drama that shows these people’s ordinariness, strengths and weaknesses, and never idealizes or diminishes them.
Time and Winds (Bes Vakit)
A beautiful contemplative immersion in the children’s sense of the immensity of time and events. Written and directed by Reha Erdem
El Baño del Papa (The Pope’s Toilet)
A film about the Pope’s toilet. Directed by Enrique Fernandez and Cesar Charlone
My life inside
A masterful piece of film-making that leaves the audience gasping at the injustice of a 99 year sentence for a Mexican 'illegal' migrant following the death of the child she was minding
An island calling
An explosive mix of politics, religion and sexuality explored through the life of a gay couple in Fiji
