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Desolation by Hossein Asgari review – an accomplished exploration of love, truth and the cruelty of fate
ByCatriona Menzies-Pike September 11, 2025

A storyteller who lies in service of truth meets a writer who doesn’t believe in true stories in this sophomore work set in Adelaide and post-revolutionary IranGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDoes a novel need a factchecker? Not for the kind…

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Pépé le Moko review – mysterious and passionately despairing French noir with a luminous Jean Gabin
ByPeter Bradshaw September 11, 2025

Powerful French film that inspired Casablanca stars Gabin as a holed-up gangster in Algiers lured to his doom by infatuationJulien Duvivier’s mysterious and passionately despairing 1937 movie is rereleased, with its luminous lead performance from Jean …

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Pépé le Moko review – mysterious and passionately despairing French noir with a luminous Jean Gabin
ByPeter Bradshaw September 11, 2025

Powerful French film that inspired Casablanca stars Gabin as a holed-up gangster in Algiers lured to his doom by infatuationJulien Duvivier’s mysterious and passionately despairing 1937 movie is rereleased, with its luminous lead performance from Jean …

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‘Neutrality should not be an option’: why are so many artists now speaking out on Gaza?
ByTim Jonze September 10, 2025

Musician Brian Eno and artist Malak Mattar, key figures in next week’s Together for Palestine concert, explain why artists are putting fears of a backlash aside and uniting in the call for actionA red carpet event, especially one to promote the new Dow…

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‘Neutrality should not be an option’: why are so many artists now speaking out on Gaza?
ByTim Jonze September 10, 2025

Musician Brian Eno and artist Malak Mattar, key figures in next week’s Together for Palestine concert, explain why artists are putting fears of a backlash aside and uniting in the call for actionA red carpet event, especially one to promote the new Dow…

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Holding Liat review – powerful study of a family torn apart by Hamas’ 7 October attacks
ByPeter Bradshaw September 10, 2025

Brandon Kramer’s documentary complicates any simple view of the Israel-Gaza war in its portrait of one family’s agonising divisionsAt the present moment, for pro-Palestinian campaigners, mention of the hostages and victims of Hamas’s 7 October attacks …

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From Ground Zero: Stories From Gaza review – scenes of ordinary life in extremis
ByPeter Bradshaw September 9, 2025

This heartbreaking collection of short films mentions neither ‘Israel’ nor ‘Hamas’, instead offering a mosaic of everyday living under nonstop attackThis collection of short films from Gaza film-makers gives a mosaic of images, ideas and microvignettes…

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‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October
ByJulian Borger September 9, 2025

Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliationWhen Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on 7 October 2023, unleashing a devastating retaliation against…

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‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October
ByJulian Borger September 9, 2025

Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliationWhen Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on 7 October 2023, unleashing a devastating retaliation against…

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Actors and directors pledge not to work with Israeli film groups ‘implicated in genocide’
ByAnna Betts September 8, 2025September 10, 2025

Exclusive: Thousands of film workers join new boycott initiative criticized by Israeli producers’ group as ‘misguided’Thousands of actors, directors and other film industry professionals have signed a new pledge vowing not to work with Israeli film ins…

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