CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Global concerns in Cairo
RITA DI SANTO reports from a film festival with an acute international perspective
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
CAIRO International Film Festival — the oldest in the entire Arab World, Africa and the Middle East — has just celebrated its 40th anniversary.
With some 200 films in the programme, it's been a showcase for the wealth of talent and diversity of Egyptian and global cinema, with a mix of features, documentary, retrospectives and experiments in virtual reality.
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