The West’s conflict with radical Islamism seemed to emerge from nowhere after the Cold War, but, as Curtis shows us in this documentary, these frictions form part of a narrative and a theatre of war that have been latent for decades.
Bitter Lake, 2015, 136 min
This cycle, curated by Chema González, brings together almost the entire body of work of this English journalist and producer, re-editing the vast archives of the BBC. The films are screened in remastered copies accompanied by presentations and debates about Curtis’s work.
