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Attenborough at 100: how millions were able to see and appreciate the wider world
As the BBC marks Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday with Making Life on Earth, Leila Latif reflects that aside from astonishing longevity, his impact often comes down to getting people to care enough to look
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Seemab Gul on Ghost School: ‘Education is about questioning everything around us’
The director’s debut feature film offers a haunting meditation on the place of women and girls in Pakistani society
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Andy Serkis’s Animal Farm softens the blow of Orwell’s satire
Despite some sacrifices of the novel’s bite, this animated adaptation contains clear echoes of a contemporary political landscape in which belonging is conditional
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UK Asian Film Festival 2026 preview: art as a warning against indifference
Ghost School and Shadowbox, screening at this year’s festival, are two deeply affecting portraits of women navigating impossible circumstances
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Riz Ahmed: ‘I act like no one is watching and write like no one is going to read it’
The Bait creator and his co-star Guz Khan don’t want to please everyone — and that’s the point of their new show about a British Muslim actor caught up in a Bond-casting buzz
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The Oscars arrives at an uneasy moment for a US celebration of Iran
It feels both apt and surreal that so many Iranian films have emerged as key nominees at the Oscars, including It Was Just an Accident and Cutting Through Rocks
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‘This film is a ceremony’: Óliver Laxe on the Oscar-nominated Sirât
Set against against the vast Moroccan desert, the director speaks about his film’s journey of spirituality and self-discovery
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Hamlet establishes Riz Ahmed as one of the greats
This modern retelling enhances the cruelty of Shakespeare’s tale, infusing the terrible fate that awaits our protagonist with societal anger
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All That’s Left of You: moving drama is an epic tale of a Palestinian family over generations
Cherien Dabis’s ambitious film doesn’t aim to explain history so much as to show how its scars accumulate
