To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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How can cinema help Palestinians?
RITA DI SANTO visits El Gouna film festival in Egypt to witness a programme of films and discussions in solidarity with Palestinians
HUMAN VALUES: Lina Soualem’s documentary, Bye Bye Tiberias
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
WHILE Cairo Film Festival was cancelled by Egypt’s Minister of Culture Neven el-Kelany “due to the Israel-Hamas conflict,” the El Gouna Film Festival has just concluded its sixth edition, which was originally scheduled for October.
The festival showed solidarity towards the Palestinian people throughout. From the opening ceremony, where Palestinian singer Elyanna sang the moving song Olive Branch, conveying the profound sadness for her brethren in Gaza, to a panel discussion, “Camera in Crisis: A Lens on Palestine,” where renowned Palestinian film-maker Rashid Masharawi (Laila’s Birthday, 2008) declared that the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and Palestinian cinema did more for the cause than any politician.
Film-makers Khalil al Muzian (Gaza Sderot: Life in Spite of Everything, 2009) and Mohammed Almughanni (Shujayya, 2016) were more despairing, asking “What more can we depict?” and pointing out that “what is happening in Gaza today is bigger than any film can portray.”
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