A Safari in a Familiar Landscape
With its dark and somewhat obvious portrayal of wealthy Austrians and Germans on a hunting safari in Africa, Ulrich Seidl’s new documentary suggests that the acclaimed filmmaker needs to start challenging himself.
Africa
Security for sale
AFRICA: The security agents on the continent occasionally contribute to security for certain people in specific areas, but they also mix roles.
Elite liberalism + mass nationalism = true
GLOBALISATION: For political scientist Jean François Bayart, globalisation and the development of national identity are complementary processes.
The middle class without resources
AFRICA: A solid academic work where all writers are critical – in part, very critical – to this understanding of the African middle class.
Africa on African terms
AFRICA: It is a paradox that Africa is assessed in relation to Europe rather than being compared to itself and its own values.
The unpleasant truth
AFRICA: For those who want to understand the political complexity of sub-Saharan Africa.
SPIES IN THE CONGO: The forgotten victims of the Hiroshima bomb
Susan Williams has made a docu-crime in the spirit of Pinter, le Carré and Galeano.
Restrained and harrowing
Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy is a strikingly restrained documentary about the little known abuse that took place under the rule of Chadian dictator Hissein Habrés.
The language of rebellion
Concerning violence is one of the best films I have even seen on repression and rebellion.
The number of dead in Congo is close to Holocaust
Modern Times Documentary: Some 5.4 million dead. Hundreds of thousands of women raped, and millions forced out of their homes. These are just some of the consequences of the Congolese mineral conflict in the last ten or twenty years.