Culture / Film
Articles about Film, ordered by date. 
The interview: Mike Leigh
The British director’s latest film, Peterloo, recounts the 1819 massacre of protesters demanding parliamentary reform in Manchester, UK. He speaks to Sam Thompson about the relationship between cinema, history and politics.
Mixed Media: Film
Highlights from Hot Docs, the major documentary film festival held annually in Toronto, Canada.
Mixed Media: Film
The Ciambra directed and written by Jonas Carpignano;
In the Fade directed and co-written by Fatih Akin.
Mixed Media: Film
A Fantastic Woman, written and directed by Sebastián Lelio; Custody (Jusqu’à la garde), written and directed by Xavier Legrand.
Mixed Media: Best of 2017
What a year! We’re all in need of some light relief – here we pick out the top films, books and music reviewed by New Internationalist in 2017
Mixed Media: Film
Dolores directed by Peter Bratt; Félicité directed and co-written by Alain Gomis.
Mixed Media: Film
I Am Not a Witch, directed and written by Rungano Nyoni; Menashe, directed and co-written by Joshua Z Weinstein
And finally... Toni Myers
Training astronauts to shoot film? All in a day's work for the Canadian documentary filmmaker, writes Cristiana Moisescu.
HotDocs Festival - Film review special
Richard Swift reviews some of the best offerings at the world's largest documentary film festival.
And finally... Ramin Bahrani
The system is rigged, but it can be changed, the US-Iranian film director tells Malcolm Lewis.
Mixed Media: Hot Docs Film Festival special
Richard Swift picks out some highlights from the 2015 documentary film festival.
Mixed media: film reviews
Phoenix and The Falling reviewed by Malcolm Lewis.
Film reviews
The Overnighters, directed by Jesse Moss; The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum.
Mixed media: Film
Pride, directed by Matthew Warchus; Still the Enemy Within, directed by Owen Gower.
And finally... Xiaolu Guo
The award-winning novelist and film director tells Graeme Green about growing up in rural China, freedom, censorship and loneliness.
Interview with Saleh Bakri
The Palestinian actor tells Frank Barat why fame will not change him - or his passion for justice for his people.
John Pilger: Australia's silent apartheid
The investigative journalist and filmmaker tells Hazel Healy about his new film, and explains why Australia is still on an international ‘shame list’.
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