Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
CEMENTING the links between Glasgow and Havana — they’ve been twinned since 2002 — the programme depicted attitudes to life and a love of cinema shared by both cities.
Eirene Houston, the Glasgow-based writer and director who masterminded the initiative, and the visiting Cuban filmmakers pointed to the mass audiences for films in the Cuban capital, paralleling the Glaswegian experience.
The festival concentrated on films from Cuba, including at least three British premieres, and the range of different genres showed off the breadth of filmmaking on the island.
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
ANDY HEDGECOCK is astonished by a portrait of contemporary Greece, complete with political protest, organised crime and people trafficking, told from the point of view of — wait for it — runaway poultry
A teaching delegation to Cuba offered IAN DUCKETT a powerful glimpse into a schooling system defined by care, creativity and the legacy of the island’s remarkable 1961 literacy campaign


