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Gurrumul
Listeners familiar with the harder sounds of Yothu Yindi are in for a surprise. The 12 songs on Gurrumul display an altogether softer side of their author.
Wheel back the factories
Chinese investors may bring manufacturing back to the West, discovers Libby Tucker.
South African SPECIAL
A selection of post-election South African reading.
Seya
Broken Glass
A multi-layered tribute to the human spirit – beaten but not broken, and laughing drunkenly in the face of adversity.
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Fish Tank
A film that gets inside the mind and feelings of a young person deeply at odds with the world. Written and directed by Andrea Arnold.
Birdwatchers
The reality of indigenous life in the Amazon. Directed and co-written by Marco Bechis
Three Miles North of Molkom
At a new age festival in Sweden, a group of people who’ve never met before explore tree-hugging, sweat lodges, shamanism, tantric sex.
Sin Nombre
A road movie cum Western. Or, rather, it's a railroad movie and the 'West' - where innumerable migrants are headed on railroad wagons - is more accurately the 'North', the US.
Burma VJ – reporting from a closed country
This is the story of ‘Joshua’, an underground video journalist. By Anders Ostergaard
Black Wave – the legacy of the Exxon Valdez
This film documents the corporate chicanery and disinformation that has followed since the Exxon tanker dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound.
