Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More
I'm a UK-based editor for a major publisher. I'm making it my off-duty duty to experience FIVE books, FIVE films, art, TV, music and food from every country in the world (where feasible). See drop down menus for my progress.
“My message for the situation if I am killed is very simple: don’t give up.” When I heard of the death of Aleksei Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic inside Russia, I involuntarily gasped out loud. It probably shouldn’t have come as such a shock, given the brazen brutality of the Putin dictatorship. I think …
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Moving Danish animated documentary about the experience of an Afghan man finding asylum in the West
moving and engaging documentary film about one family’s desperate struggle to flee Afghanistan
A charming shortish documentary film on the street cats of Istanbul, and their relationships with the local people
My review of the Oscar-nominated Romanian health-care scandal documentary Collectivee
Fascinating documentary following the day to day life of a political revolutionary in the West African state of Burundi
moving and engaging documentary film about one family’s desperate struggle to flee Afghanistan
Intimate film about the delicate symbiosis of a North Macedonian ecosytem and one of Europe’s last wild bee keepers
I watched For Sama (2019) on All 4, knowing only that it was an Oscar-nominated film about the Syrian conflict, dedicated to the baby daughter of the journalist and film maker Waad al-Kateab (and co-directed by Edward Watts). I expected it to be harrowing, but I was unprepared for how gripping and powerful the film …
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Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More 