The title of this new film set in Brazil’s Sao Paulo is the name of a football game where people try to keep the ball in the air. It’s a game played by four brothers, Denis, Dinho, Dario and Reginaldo, whose single mother Cleuza has struggled to bring them up.
This film centres around a comfortable middle class family, seen through eyes of Bruno, the eight year old son.
"Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone," sang Joni Mitchell. This could have been written about the challenges facing school and public libraries.
Set in Beirut, this film explores the lives of five working class women in modern Lebanon. It is set in a beauty parlour called So Pretty.
Who would have imagined that a play about the struggles of teenagers leaving care would make such a powerful, thought-provoking and visually stunning work?
Richard Hamilton’s Protest Pictures exhibition at Inverleith House in Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens contains a body of work spanning over four decades.
Don Giovanni, written in 1787, is the third of Mozart’s five operatic masterpieces. In exquisite music, conveying the whole range of human emotions and aspirations, it tells the story of the irredeemable womaniser Don Juan.
A fascinating selection of recent drawings by Newcastle artist Liz Atkin explores faces of ordinary people. Some are based on photos picked up in charity shops, some on people she interviewed. The images combine anonymity, surrealism and closely observed detail.
In a striking mix of the traditional and the avant garde, a collective of 25 musicians from the Democratic Republic of Congo blend a hypnotic mix of acoustic instruments, electric guitars, soul vocals and thumb pianos distorted by extreme amplification.
Eva, an ageing Jewish Holocaust survivor, who still lives in East Berlin, recounts the story of her life just after the Berlin Wall has fallen in 1990.
