A World Not Ours
“A WORLD NOT OURS quickly establishes itself as a deeply personal portrait, captured almost by accident amongst a wider political polemic.”
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Operation Bethlehem
Bethlehem is divided, literally, by a giant illegal wall of concrete dividing Palestine and Israeli areas. Sarah Acton reviews Leila Sansour’s OPERATION BETHLEHEM.
A Story of Children and Film
Cousins’ own childlike joy in the camera is manifest throughout A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM, writes Amanda Randall.
Thomas Dolby: The Invisible Lighthouse
Tom Dolby’s half-hour elegy-doc was filmed over a year and is still a work-in-progress. It’s much more than a motion picture, writes Huw Oliver.
In The Shadow Of The Sun
The Tanzanians’ hatred for their albino community is desperately sad. But IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN is not without hope, writes Mark Liversidge.
The Great Hip Hop Hoax
THE GREAT HIP HIP HOAX – two Scots remaking themselves as Californian rap duo – is a mild indictment of the artificiality of modern music, writes Jim Ross
Morente
There is a joyful rhythm to this documentary on flamenco singer Enrique Morente despite its self-congratulatory tone, writes Hannah Clarkson.
Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: John Otway
ROCK & ROLL’S GREATEST FAILURE combines footage of Otway’s manic live performances with eccentric to-camera narration by the star himself.
Muscle Shoals
MUSCLE SHOALS riffs on Rick Hall’s often pained backstory and his success as the world’s most in-demand knob-twiddler, writes Huw Oliver.
Dummy Jim
“You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind”. DUMMY JIM is inspired by Scottish author and long-distance cyclist, James Duthie.