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Amel Alzakout and her partner Khaled Abdulwahed made the powerful film Purple Sea, which shows Alzakout's struggle after her migrant vessel capsized in the Mediterranean ARTIST Amel Alzakout was escaping from war-torn Syria on a flimsy migrant boat when it capsized, throwing her into the Mediterranean with more than 300 other passengers. Crucial rescue operations were delayed by bureaucracy and 43 people died in what was the deadliest migration related tragedy in 2015. Alzakout survived – along with incredible footage from her GoPro camera, which was strapped to her wrist so she could...

Best films and television of the year and the devastation of cultural life As the year ends, it is not possible to discuss any aspect of artistic life, or life in general, in 2020 without central reference to the COVID-19 pandemic, which the various ruling elites have permitted to ravage the world’s population. In late March, we noted that “the global health and economic calamity” was without precedent. “Whatever the outcome in the short term,” we wrote, “social life and consciousness will never return to their previous states. A Rubicon has been crossed. The existing order, in th...