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‘Stop patronising me and give me an interview’: the female journalists speaking up for India’s poor
India’s only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers expla…
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Funny Boy review – Sri Lankan rites-of-passage tale clashes with political reality
Arush Nand is very good as a gay Tamil boy in Deepa Mehta’s coming-of-age drama set in a period building to ci…
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Cemetery review – elephant heads for the graveyard in hardcore art piece
Carlos Casas’s film – half documentary, half experimental essay – is a near-wordless evocation of a ‘celebrity…