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US duo the Body, who have long operated in the post-apocalyptic remains of metal and noise, team up here with Dis Fig, AKA Berlin-based DJ, producer and vocalist Felicia Chen, known for her brilliantly unsettling 2019 album Purge and a subsequent full-length collab with the Bug. Here, there are times when the dub-wise feel is rather like Kevin Martin’s insectile alias at his most jaded and speaker-destroying, but even he might hold back from the hellish moods on show here. If current news events and the general state of…

The broad, coarse leaves of the fig tree provide a layer of protection from the stifling summer heat of rural Tunisia. And likewise, the fig groves offerbrief moments of respite, for the teenagers and young adults who work as fruit pickers, from the conservative restrictions and closed horizons of their village communities.This beguiling, sun-dappled drama is the first feature from French-Tunisian film-maker Erige Sehiri, who cut her teeth in nonfiction and brings a naturalistic, unfettered documentarist’s eye to the…

French-Tunisian documentary maker Erige Sehiri makes a watchable fiction feature with this shrewd, sympathetic ensemble study, which takes place as promised in the title: over a single working day in a fig tree orchard in Kesra, north-western Tunisia. Every day a truck comes to pick up a crowd of people doing cash-in-hand work picking the fruit: largely women, young and old, and some men. The long working day unfolds as the shadows shorten, then lengthen and friendships, enmities, generational and political disputes and…

Seven years after heavy losses shuttered his hedge fund, Mike Novogratz was in his SoHo office watching his computer screen flicker prices of cryptocurrencies, his new favorite investments. They were all collapsing. The former college wrestler who once worked for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS -1.72% and Fortress Investment Group had reinvented himself as one of Wall Street’s biggest digital-currency proponents, a cult figure for thousands of…