The genocide of the Yazidis? Who remembers it now, a decade after the shocking reports of Islamic State (IS) atrocities?

Thirteen years in Iran - a fascinating journey through lives and years of which we rarely get a glimpse.

Dahomey - "an otherworldly account of the return of looted treasures to Africa, where their homecoming is hotly debated."

Milisuthando paints a picture of apartheid South Africa that’s rarely seen on screen: there’s criticism of Nelson Mandela and nostalgia for Transkei, one of the “Bantustans” or “Homelands” created so White South Africa could pretend to the world that its racist policy was “separate but equal” rather than repressive.

Islamophobia, British Pakistanis, Prevent, migrant father-son relationships, racism, code switching, stereotypes: Statues has something to say about all these issues.

How to make an entertaining film documentary on a complex subject? Jazz it up. Directors tend to add humour, rapid cuts, weird images, witty captions, and animation - any device to keep audiences interested.

Sugar Island is a barnstorming attempt to entertain and inform at the same time.

‘Resilience’ has become a fashionable word: politicians and NGOs use it a lot these days, If you really want to know what it means, watch Rising Up At Night.

Cinema provides a platform to talk about Somalia, its unknown problems, and its universal realities, says Mogadishu-born director  Mo Harawe.

Director Mehdi Barsaoui asked a couple of provocative questions when discussing his film Aicha: Does one have to die to be free in Tunisia? Has death become the only resort to reach true emancipation?

It’s a bold man who takes on Israel-Palestine as a subject for a one-man show. Bolder still for a Brit with Egyptian heritage and an actor best known for his role as the leader of the hijackers in United 93 and as Dodi Fayed in The Crown.

Don’t call it the Silk Road: it’s Silk Roads. Because, says the new British Museum blockbuster, it never was just a matter of a single track on which traders and camels trekked to and from China.

An unhappy woman’s words ring down the ages: “I would rather be a dog’s or pig’s wife than yours.”

There’s so much going on in Ostan that sometimes it’s hard to make out what’s going on.

An Iranian exile and a hob cook up a tasty 70 minutes of drama in My English Persian Kitchen at the Soho Theatre.

“All jobs bring honor and nobility, even work that is socially discounted or demeaned,’ read a US Labor Day message I once read. A new exhibition, Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights, looks at the underside of that message.

Follow the journey of 16-year-old Mira, whose sexy, rebellious coming of age is disrupted by her young mother who never got to come of age herself.

How do you see Saudi Arabia: seemingly limitless oil, wealth beyond imagination, awesome skyscrapers, groups of men in thobes? All part of the picture. But there’s an underbelly, too..

What a fabulous exhibition. The South African faces – including the magnificent self-portraits – look you in the eye, haunt you, challenge you, inform you.

Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan’s exhibition at the Hayward Gallery is called There Is Light Somewhere. There is, and he’s found it.