David Lehmann
Chile: Cabros de Mierda
Film Review: Cabros de Mierda
English title: “The Young Shepherd’
(Gonzalo Justiniano, Chile, 2017) with Nathalie Aragonese, Daniel Contessa Aguirre and Elias Collado Moya.
‘Cabros de Mierda’...
Argentina: don’t shoot the messenger
Film Review: El Mensajero. Jayson McNamara (2016)
English title: “Messenger on a White Horse’
During the murderous years 1976-83, from the Argentine coup to the Falklands...
Brazil 1964: Never again!
March 31 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup in Brazil, which ushered in the era of dictatorships in Latin America.
Hora Chilena: Chilean refugees in Cambridge in a Britain at ease...
A documentary film about Chilean Refugees in Cambridge, England, prompts wider questions about a time when the words 'refugee' and 'asylum' prompted sympathy rather than fear.
Chile: Memoria, 40 years on
LAB Council member David Lehmann, after a visit to Santiago's Museo de La Memoria, is perplexed to find that support for the violence perpetrated by the Pinochet dictatorship is still acceptable and tolerated.
K: In the name of the daughter
In a passionate review of LAB's new book 'K', David Lehmann describes it as a 'searing work that hovers between memoir and novel'.
Brazil: The remarkable expansion of the Evangelical Churches Part Two
David Lehmann continues with his reflections on the evangélicos, looking now at how the old stereotypes have become obsolete. The second of two blogs.
Brazil: The remarkable expansion of the Evangelical Churches Part One
As the evangelical churches have grown, so they have become more professional and more diversified. This is is what David Lehmann found in his recent visits to the churches. The first of two blogs.