The sight of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach soaking up the plaudits at Cannes should have been omen enough. Then, with impeccable timing, came this week's sun-kissed announcement of the long-pending first ...

When ‘Anora’ began its ascent in the Cannes Film Festival, director Sean Baker made it a point to watch the restored version of late great Filipino director Lino Brocka’s ‘Bona’ in the event’s ...

With Philippine Social Realists by Amadis Ma. Guerrero, launched late August at the Erehwon Center for the Arts in Quezon City, the art movement as we know it locally comes full circle, after Alice ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Samira Ahmed examines British social realism in film with the hindsight of half a century, and the legacy of the so-called 'kitchen sink drama'. Show more It's fifty years since we first saw films ...

Expressing the life and cause of the masses : ideologies and institutions -- Articulating history to the radical present : murals -- Chronicling the contemporary crisis : graphic art -- Forging a ...