You sense from the opulence of the Moroccan home in the opening scenes of Animalia that the director is setting us up for a fall.

You don’t see many plays in London about Black men locked up in secure hospitals for violent crimes. So well done, Sophia Griffin, who has made that scenario the subject of her debut play.

Despite being a story of events in Palestine 89 years ago, the release of Palestine 36 could hardly be more topical. To Palestinians, of course, every one of the subsequent years has been topical, historic and disturbing.

The Singh Twins deliver their latest artistic salvo on empire, trade, and this time, botany.

In the opening shots of Cutting Through Rocks Sara Shahverdi is lifting heavy metal gates onto their hinges, cutting stone and driving her motorbike across a sweeping rural landscape. This woman means business.

Director Shih-Ching Tsou sets up the scene with a mother and two daughters moving to Taipei to start new lives, but it’s grandfather’s shock at discovering the younger daughter is left-handed that supercharges the family story.

Scenes From The Climate Era isn’t the last word on climate change, but it’s a lot of useful, fascinating, entertaining, amusing, frightening words on the biggest problem facing the planet.

Souleymane’s Story begins in an asylum assessment office in Paris and ends with an intense asylum interview that takes an unexpected turn.

Lights! Camera! Action! Yet another film about film-making and a disused cinema: this time it’s about Ghana, and it’s a delight.

Khartoum is a quietly beautiful, tragic film.

Here’s a collector’s item: a police procedural set in Cameroon.

The title of One Woman One Bra comes from a conversation between an awkward meeting between a gung-ho Western NGO worker and a desperate landless villager, Star.

Promised Sky, about three Ivorian women struggling to make new lives in a less-than-welcoming country, is a reality for millions of migrants around the world today — and may be a worrying future for many in UK unless we manage to halt the rise of the far Right and its anti-immigrant agenda.

Uprooted is a nerve-jangling howl of protest - against the rape of Latin America’s natural resources, its indigenous peoples, its environmental defenders, many of whom are women.

The subject of Kerry James Marshall’s paintings are Black people. Very black people. He ignores the many hues and shades of Africa and the diaspora.

Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict is tough viewing, and some people understandably will not want to see it.

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

There’s no doubt about the relevance of the Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition, Thirst: In Search of Freshwater.

It’s a pleasing idea: 11 individuals fan out across 54 African countries to compile a state-of-the-continent report for the Arcola Theatre stage.