The Film Programme

Embrace Of The Serpent; I Am Belfast


Listen Later

With Francine Stock.

Film-maker Mark Cousins and composer David Holmes discuss their documentary I Am Belfast and reveal why they rarely went to the cinema at the height of The Troubles.

How virtual reality puts us in the shoes of someone with epilepsy, a migrant living in the so-called Calais Jungle, and an Irishman caught up in the Easter Rising in 1916. These are three of the films nominated for the first VR awards at this week's Sheffield Documentary Festival.

The Amazon makes up almost half of Columbia and yet very much is known about the jungle in the rest of the country. Film-maker Ciro Guerra has tried to put that right with his drama Embrace Of The Serpent, and he tells Francine how he taught indigenous people to act and why his leading man is one of the last people in the world to speak his particular language.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The Film ProgrammeBy BBC Radio 4

  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5

4.5

54 ratings


More shows like The Film Programme

View all
Global News Podcast by BBC World Service

Global News Podcast

7,707 Listeners

Newshour by BBC World Service

Newshour

1,054 Listeners

In Our Time by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time

5,538 Listeners

The Documentary Podcast by BBC World Service

The Documentary Podcast

1,795 Listeners

6 Minute English by BBC Radio

6 Minute English

1,818 Listeners

Learning English Conversations by BBC Radio

Learning English Conversations

1,085 Listeners

The Empire Film Podcast by Bauer Media

The Empire Film Podcast

547 Listeners

Front Row by BBC Radio 4

Front Row

133 Listeners

Inheritance Tracks by BBC Radio 4

Inheritance Tracks

31 Listeners

You're Dead to Me by BBC Radio 4

You're Dead to Me

3,216 Listeners

The Missing Cryptoqueen by BBC Sounds

The Missing Cryptoqueen

1,039 Listeners

Americast by BBC News

Americast

769 Listeners

The Bomb by BBC World Service

The Bomb

1,035 Listeners