Archives for December 2019

He has been crowned with every laurel in contemporary classical music, composed operas which play on the world’s most illustrious stages and been knighted for his services to music. Yet Sir George Benjamin is still relatively little known outside the classical world. Imagine… sets that straight. Intimate and humorous, this film tracks the creation of Read More

Turkey’s best-known writer, the Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk, glories in his city of Istanbul, which in his lifetime has grown from two to fifteen million people. Despite political controversy which nearly forced him into exile, he continues to live in the city which feeds his novels. They evoke the lost world of his own eccentric Read More

This is the story of Boris Pahor, at 106 the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. A Slovenian from Trieste, Pahor wrote his novel Necropolis about his time in Natzweiler camp for political prisoners, little known but deadly: almost half of the 57,000 prisoners interned there died. Although it was the first camp Read More