In an age where some call themselves activists merely through social media posting, stories of the dangers, consequences and occasional, very hard-won rewards of boots-on-the-ground political activism have additional potency. Though Yosep Anggi Noen‘s compellingly angry and anguished “The Sea Speaks His Name” is set predominantly in the 1990s, chronicling grassroots student resistance to Indonesian
Rothesay County Championship, Division One, County Ground, Hove (day two) Sussex 393: Tear 89, Simpson 61, Carter 59; Chahar 4-97, Worrall 2-60 Surrey: Yet to bat Sussex 3 pts, Surrey 3 pts Match scorecard Charlie Tear made his highest first-class score and Oli Carter and John Simpson scored fifties as Sussex edged an absorbing day
Elements of “Oliver Twist” are given a West African update in “Our Time Will Come,” an atmospheric and emotionally absorbing feature debut from writer-director Amartei Armar, who thankfully cares too much for his orphaned characters to torture them (and us) with unending miserabilism. Beginning as a road trip, then shifting to a punishing vision of hardscrabble
