Interview by Khalid Ali In this podcast Dr Khalid Ali talks to acclaimed Canadian director Atom Egoyan at the 41st edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) where Egoyan’s latest film ‘Guest of honour’ screened. Egoyan reflects on prominent themes in his films such as isolation, estrangement and the alienation of human beings, and […]
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Khalid Ali in Conversation with Filmmaker Damon Gameau
Interview by Khalid Ali In this podcast, award-winning Australian film maker Damon Gameau talks about his new film 2040, which explores what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced solutions that are currently available to improve the planet and focusing on climate, economics, technology, civil society, agriculture, and sustainability. Damon […]
No Stone Left Unturned
The Medicine in Marijuana A film by Ben Daitz and Ned Judge Film Review by James Evans, Film Critic/Historian Loco weed, maryjane, pot, devil’s weed, smoke, reefer, grass, wacky tobacky; there are many and varied slang words for the Cannibas Sativa plant aka marijuana. The urban slang dictionary lists 121 of them. The nuances of these […]
A Beautiful Act of Separation
Film Review by Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent ‘The Disappearance of My Mother’, Beniamino Barrese, Italy 2019, showing at the London Film Festival 2019. Benedetta Barzini is a 76-year old retired lecturer who taught fashion studies at the University of Urbino in Italy. She has strong opinions about the exploitation of women in the fashion industry: ‘’Photographers […]
Conquering Death
Film Review by Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent ‘Hope frozen’, directed by Pailin Wedel, Thailand, USA, 2019 Showing at the BFI London Film Festival, 6th and 7th of October Breakthroughs in medicine and advances in technology such as ‘Thrombolysis’ (clot busting treatment for strokes caused by blood clots in the brain) and ‘Thrombectomy’ (mechanical […]
Protect, or Deprive of Liberty?
Review by Khalid Ali, Film and Media correspondent ‘The peanut butter falcon’, directed by Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson, USA 2019, Showing at the Love Gala at the BFI London Film Festival, 3, 4th and 11th October 2019. No one can question the fact that healthcare professionals have a duty of care and protection towards […]
A Bird’s Revenge
The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, Australia, 2018) Review by Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent Recently the presence of women film-makers is becoming more prominent and influential in international film circuits. The Sundance Film Festival London 2019 (https://spotlight.picturehouses.com/sundance-film-festival-2019-london/sundance-film-festival-19-london-full-programme/) continues the trend of showcasing the best of world cinema made by talented women with compelling stories to […]
Ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and Face the Strange)
Review by © James Evans, Film Critic/Historian Review of Roobha, and Ghost of the Golden Groves Roobha (d: Lenin M. Sivam) and Ghost of the Golden Groves (Shonajhurir, d: Roshni Sen and Aniket Dutta) are two films at the London Indian Film Festival sharing similar themes, but radically different subject matters. The thematic similarities concern […]
Cinema of Hope and Humanity: Introducing the World of Malayalam Filmmaker Jayaraj
by Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent Medical Humanities will focus on ‘Global Humanities’ as a theme for 2019. Film can be a powerful medium for raising awareness about current global challenges as well as revisiting historical tragedies that befell humanity, as in the first and second World Wars. It gives me great pleasure to […]
A Drive Through the Heart of Darkness
Review of ‘The Trial of Ratko Mladic’, directed by Henry Singer, and Robert Miller, showing in ‘London Human Rights Watch Film Festival’ 13–22 March 2019, https://ff.hrw.org/london by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York The Trial of Ratko Mladic begins on 22 November 2017 in The Hague, just as the world is anticipating a […]