A new film is testament to ‘never giving up’, as Anna Bevan reports from Guatemala.
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A new film is testament to ‘never giving up’, as Anna Bevan reports from Guatemala.
Successful actor and would-be human rights lawyer Juliet Stevenson on the disgrace of locking up children, and the importance of good-story-telling.
Filed in: Film Human Rights Migration
We watched, we read, we listened: New Internationalist’s favourite films, books and music from last year.
Forget Scream, The Exorcist and Jaws: The nightmare on Downing Street is coming to a cinema near you.
A compassionate and inspiring film about the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco.
Filed in: Film
What if the Germans had invaded the Welsh valleys during the Second World War?
Filed in: Film
In fact, says Zoe Cormier, it’s part of the problem – and a key component of a failing economic model.
Feature films can tell us much about the cultural background to recent events in North Africa and the Middle East. Malcolm Lewis has been watching some of them.
Director Céline Sciamma doesn’t shy away from harsh realities, yet Tomboy is still a trusting gem of a film.
Filed in: Film
The Canadian First Nations actor, star of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and US TV dramas Big Love and Law and Order, talks to Sian Griffiths about the importance of being a role model for young aboriginal kids.
Filed in: Film Indigenous Peoples Television
Of monopoly and monoculture: the top six global media firms, with their cosy family of brands.
Filed in: Corporations Film Globalization Media Music Television
Anti-Muslim fervour is rife – yet is being ignored by the authorities, says Lewis Garland.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection against discrimination.
‘The Wicked Witch is dead’ but although he’s celebrating, Alan Hughes urges us to fight on against everything she stood for.
Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
As Mother’s Day approaches in India, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on how motherhood has changed along with the online communication boom.