Existential anxieties are peaking among some very angry women, vengeful men, raging artists,  claustrophobic Thais and one very wronged Indian dwarf, according to this year’s 59 films from across the world. Crazed and silly many of them may be; their very silliness is an eruption of suppressed truth, to make us laugh, cry and sing out our pain, and so end our zombification. 

The music of the spheres is humming a dark note, and not just over Gaza. For Thai ganchachon, it’s the insecurity of our legal status. Heroic activists from Thailand’s Cannabis Future Network will address this confusion in a talk on Saturday 22 November: ‘Thai Ganja: Boom or Bust?’ All points of view are welcome. To heal the world, Love is All We Weed.