
Remember the Sudanese protesters who thought their time had come
Hind Meddeb’s documentary is called Sudan, Remember Us. And we should.

Sexual violence in conflict - ‘the cheapest weapon known to man’
Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict is tough viewing, and some people understandably will not want to see it.

A story, and a life, that’s not easy to tell
Little Brother is Ibrahima Balde’s extraordinary journey from a Guinean village, across a desert dotted with the bodies of migrants, hours of feet-blistering walking, to torture, slavery and vile racist abuse (“Libya is not a place for the living”), and to an overcrowded slowly-sinking boat to Europe.

Starring role for snakes in Ancient India exhibition
Snakes rarely get a good press, but they almost steal the show in the British Museum’s exhibition, Ancient India: living traditions.

Brilliant British story about asylum - and OCD
Ignore the title, Insane Asylum Seekers, which suggests a whacky comedy straining for laughs. Think instead of an intimate, brilliantly written and performed monologue about a British Iraqi family.

Kurdish revolution hanging by a thread
Documentaries don’t get more esoteric than Threads Of A Revolution: it’s about a woman’s tenuous connection to a little-known social experiment in an unreported part of the world.

Plunder, art and the British Museum: Time to go home
“All of human history? It’a basically people taking things from other.” A 1,000-year-old statue is moved from the British Museum to a Chinese airport.

Revisiting 1960s class warfare
Lessons on Revolution is like a dramatic, imaginatively presented lecture, which is appropriate since it’s about a 1968 London School of Economics student uprising.

Home truths about hospitality, asylum and climate change
The Guest is about global heating and refugees, about walls against strangers, about suspicion and trust..

Comedy drama of warp-speed Desi drivers
Is it not a little odd that the first three drivers on a speed awareness course are British Asians, as is the instructor?

Kyoto turns climate talks into a political thriller
A play about an international climate conference in 1997, I hear you say. Sounds boring, you add.
But you are so, so wrong.
Kyoto is a rip-roaring, piledriver of a play.

Waiting for the knock on the roof
Khawla Ibraheem got the idea for her monologue, A Knock On The Roof, about four years ago. Conflict in Gaza has made it even more topical. That’s hardly surprising, as the latest war is not the first even for her sole character’s six-year-old son.

Coming of age and coming out as deadly lines split India
For a play about India, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s 1947 “Tryst with Destiny” speech is the equivalent of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s dictum that "a gun shown in the first act will inevitably be fired later in the play".

Anxieties over race and money in Stillwater run deep
The three couples in A Good House are unsettled by a seventh character: a shack with no known owner and no known occupants.

‘It’s as if Amazon had their own army today’
What Have We Here? does what museums all over the country should be doing: taking a fresh look at their exhibits and captions and suggesting new ways of showing and explaining them.

A woman writer dares to boldly go where few men have gone before
Remember the shocking scandal of the gangs of predatory men, mostly British Pakistanis, who sexually exploited girls in Rochdale and Rotherham at the turn of the century?

Ringside view of a St Vincent-UK boxer’s life
See Frankie Lucas winning a national boxing title twice and follow his dreams of sporting glory. But his rise is far from straightforward. So is his downwfall.

A painful love-letter through time
The first sniff suggests an earnest, jerky, home movie. Stay with it, and watch this introspective documentary infiltrate your brain.

China-Africa development: ‘Those who fall behind get trampled on’
China meets Ethiopia, modernity meets tradition, capitalism meets community in Made In Ethiopia. And “meets” is a euphemism for clash.

A mysterious septuagenarian leads the way on a Middle East adventure
Women Who Blow On Knots is an adaptation of journalist Ece Temelkuran’s novel (120,000 copies sold in her homeland, Turkey) about a road trip by four women amidst the turmoil of the Arab Spring.