Droit dans la Gueule du Loup and Stand Up People: Gypsy Pop Songs from Tito’s Yugoslavia.
Documentary film is taking its rightful place on commercial screens beside the usual fictional offerings. Richard Swift views some of this year’s entrants at the Toronto Hotdocs festival.
Books, music, web, film and DVD releases all worth a mention.
Children of the Jacaranda Tree, Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea, What the River Washed Away and Paralysed With Fear: The Story of Polio.
Stories We Tell, by Sarah Polley; Night of Silence (Lal Gece), by Reis Çelik; The Stoker, by Alexei Balabanov.
Records from General Paolino featuring Mama Celina and Quercus.
Film, book and movie reviews from around the world.
A book by Teresa Solana translated by Peter Bush (Bitter Lemon Press, ISBN 978 1 908524 065)
A book by Morten Bøås and Kevin Dunn (Zed, ISBN 1848139969)
A book by Tom Miller (Zed, ISBN 9781780321417)
A book by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate, ISBN 9780857867964)
Music by The Anti-Capitalist Roadshow (Fuse Records CF 099 2CD).
Music by Graveola (Mais Um Discos CD MAIS013)
A film directed and written by Craig Zobel (90 minutes).