Interview

Five years after Britain left the EU, the co-presidents of European Movement UK believe the country needs to begin a serious discussion about rejoining – but Farage, and his Tory admirers, are getting in the way

There were at least six orchestras at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eighty years after the camp’s liberation, most of their music has been lost to history. Can conductor Leo Geyer change that?

Jesse Eisenberg’s film turns the darkest material into a deftly funny Oscar contender

From catchy pop hits to far right death threats and knife attacks – the shocking story of the Swedish pop group

The Bad Sisters bad guy turns hero in William Tell – and tells us how his name is really pronounced…

Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia on his new docu-drama and the road to dystopia

Has director Robert Eggers bitten off more than he can chew with a remake of FW Murnau’s 1922 classic?

Death of England, one of the cultural highlights of 2024, is coming to streaming. But what’s next for playwright Roy Williams?

The chair of the Labour Movement for Europe explains why the group is not campaigning to rejoin the EU – but trying to salvage relations instead

Jacques Audiard’s brilliant Emilia Pérez is a musical like no other, by turns funny, tragic and thrilling

The Bibi Files paints a devastating picture of the Israeli prime minister and his family

An edge-of-the-pulpit papal thriller from the screenwriter of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light offers lessons in weakness, venality and doubt

The Feargal Sharkey-approved hip hop trio are tearing up the world with message-based rap that’s neither hectoring nor earnest

The story of Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko captures the reason why the country must fight, why it must win and why the west needs to support it all the way

Over two years after her release, the former detainee on stolen time, hostage diplomacy and the lessons to be learned from her case

Thomas Vinterberg founded Dogma 95 and changed the movie industry for ever. Is another revolution possible – and what would it look like?

Johnson says that his new book on Harold Wilson isn’t meant as a message to the current PM. But it is

The Green party risks being dismissed as a hard left protest vote – how can it broaden its appeal?

A raucous, funny movie about controversial Northern Irish rap group Kneecap turns out to be an impassioned cry for the power of indigenous language

Launched in London by a pair of Italian brothers, the much-loved I Camisa is closing after nearly a century in Soho. Why?

How Råpunk – raw punk – brought pure rage to Sweden

How Berlin made the notorious, magnificent Einstürzende Neubauten

A remarkable new documentary sees the son of commandant Rudolph Höss meet a survivor of his father’s murder factory

A new novel that reimagines art’s most toxic relationship and reintroduces the photographer and artist’s legacy to the world

A fiery final interview with the provocative Dutch artist

Did the Gaza encampments that sprung up across British universities achieve anything?

A new movie role shows there is much more to Sofie Gråbøl than that chunky jumper she wore as Sarah Lund in the classic Scandi noir drama

The remarkable Alice Rohrwacher on buried treasure and directing without a safety net

Photographer Polly Braden has spent two years following the lives of Ukrainian women and children displaced by Putin’s invasion

Dutch sensation Froukje makes dance music with lyrics about grief, the climate crisis and her own brand of radical optimism

A new exhibition of Hetherington’s greatest photographs is not of guns and bombs – but of the men who use them

His great contemporaries are gone, but the director is still shaking his fists – and miraculously, his films are getting even better