A story, and a life, that’s not easy to tell
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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.

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Brilliant British story about asylum - and OCD
Daniel Nelson Daniel Nelson

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.

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Kurdish revolution hanging by a thread
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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.

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Revisiting 1960s class warfare 
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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.

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Waiting for the knock on the roof
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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.

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Coming of age and coming out as deadly lines split India
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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".

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A painful love-letter through time
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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.

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