on tuesday, a man was stabbed in the face on lewisham, on the same day as the violence in hyde park, a man was found stabbed to death in hackney. our main priority is the metropolitan police is just to our main priority is the metropolitan police isjust to make sure that we can respond effectively, and make sure that we are giving visible reassurances through, as we see here today, operations like this, weapon sweeps, making sure we are doing community engagement activities. step making sure we are doing community engagement activities. engagement activities. step back is a short film about engagement activities. step back is a short film about knife engagement activities. step back is a short film about knife crime i engagement activities. step back is a short film about knife crime and i a short film about knife crime and the impact it can have on an entire community. it was made by leo powell to try and make young people aware of the consequences. he s worked with young people
which contains one of the most memorable final shots i ve ever seen, you ll know exactly what he means. gunda is in cinemas now. i ll leave you with news of after love, the tale of cross cultural secrets and lies that went down a storm at last year s london film festival. did you convert when you married? yes. how do you feel about wearing it? i don t feel. i don t. i ve worn it longer than i haven t. it must have been hard to take all that on. back then, i did something for my husband that no one else could. joanna scanlan stars as mary, a white english muslim who converted many years ago to marry ahmed with whom she lives near the dover cliffs. ahmed s work takes him back
which includes footage of good understanding on one of her brood, oblivious to its squeals. yet it s impossible to watch these creatures without becoming acutely aware of their consciousness, and thus inevitably questioning what we know will happen to them. russian director viktor kossakovsky, who became a vegetarian after befriending a pig as a child that was then served up as pork cutlets, says he wanted to make a film about animals as living, feeling beings in their own right, a task he says was doubly difficult when dealing with farm livestock rather than dolphins, elephants or pandas. yet viktor kossakovsky, on whichjoaquin phoenix gets yet gunda on which joaquin phoenix gets an executive producer credit, makes for remarkably powerful experience presented in strikingly intimate monochrome images that caused there will be blood director paul thomas anderson to hail it as pure cinema stripped to its essential elements. when you ve watched the film
impressive visual coups, while o brien does a convincing job of portraying a man caught in a quarter life crisis drawn back constantly into the past. i m not even here right now! not all of the ideas land, but this indie spirited oddity is not afraid to take a few risks, and frankly it s all the better for it. flashback is on digital platforms now. from fantasy to reality, with gunda, an extraordinary documentary about farmyard animals focusing on the titular sow. squealing. over the course of the film, we see gunda suckling and raising a batch of young piglets, watching them grow all without the aid of explanatory captions or narration, or emotive music to tell us how to feel. there s nothing anthropomorphic or sentimental about the film
and forth across the channel to calais, but when he dies suddenly mary discovers that her husband had another hit in life in france, a revelation that causes her to question her own life choices and her place in the world. i m confused, you are here for the cleaning? written and directed by aleem khan, making his feature debut, after love is a moving and engaging drama in which everyone appears to be playing a role, maintaining a public facade that keeps their true selves hidden. as the often silent lead, scanlan is superb, saying more with her expressive eyes and words ever could. allowing us to watch mary discovering herself even as the world crumbles around her. built around carefully framed images with mirrored motifs highlighting the theme of duality, this film is a low key piece with a hefty emotional punch aided by an atmospheric score by chris roe that perfectly accompanies the gradual revelations.