As a number of cinemas celebrate the work of radical filmmaker Chantal Akerman, Julia Wagner picks five films from the artist's canon that you won't want to miss…
In August 1945, the US Air Force dropped two atomic bombs on Japan that obliterated communities and left over 200,000 dead. So horrific was the impact, that it remains the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict today…
I grew up in Syrian Kurdistan and loved going to the cinema as a boy but never had enough money to see all the films I wanted. I developed a strategy to get into the cinema: I’d wait outside until the queue had gone in…