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After Oil

elijahresch1 / August 5, 2026

OIL: Boima Tucker travels from a ministerial stage to an informal settlement in Mathare, tracing how Africa’s shift away from oil still runs on old patterns of who benefits and who absorbs the cost.

After Oil, Algeria, Boima Tucker, DFM Talent Press, Durban FilmMart, Kenya, oil, Sierra Leone, South Africa

La Jetée, the Fifth Shot Dominique Cabrera

The aftermath of decolonisation

Melita Zajc / October 31, 2024

COLONIALISM: Chris Marker, Algeria’s independence, and one family’s exile intertwine

Ad Libitum, Algeria, Algerian independence, Chris Marker, colonialism, DOK Leipzig, Dominique Cabrera, La Jetée, paris, science fiction, the Fifth Shot

When violence becomes the only way

Truls Lie / December 3, 2023

POWER: According to Hannah Arendt, the use of violence, weapons, and bombs renders us politically voiceless. Can her particular analyses of power teach us anything about the violence being perpetrated from and in Gaza today?

Algeria, Democracy, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, John Mearsheimer, Middle East, NATO, Negev, power, propaganda, realism, Russia, Sinai, Ukraine

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels Mila Turajlić

Colonial past, today

Melita Zajc / August 9, 2023

AFRICA: An exploration of rare archival material that unveils the significance of Algeria’s fight for independence and its implications for modern-day Africa.

Africa, Algeria, Algerian War, ALN, Belgrade, Bola Tinubu, Burkina Faso, Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels, DOK Lepzig, Dribbling Pictures, ECOWAS, EU, France, IDFA, Mali, Mila Turajlic, Mohamed Bazoum, Niger, nigeria, Non-Aligned, Sarajevo Film Festival, Survivance, Tito, uranium, USA, Visions du réel, Yugoslavia

«I relish being a stranger in a strange land»

Steve Rickinson / August 4, 2023

MDOC: Modern Times Review spoke with photographer and filmmaker Maythem Ridha on his experiences as an Iraqi in the UK, journey to film and photography, favourite Middle Eastern films, and more.

Ahmed Rami, Algeria, Baghdad, BBC, Cannes, cinema, climate change, conflict, Iraq, isis, Maythem Ridha, MDOC, Middle East, North Africa, poetry, psychotherapy, racism, Sheffield Doc/Fest, street photography, Sufi, trauma, tyranny, UK, war

Battle royale

Lauren Wissot / December 5, 2022

NAM: In a documentary diptych, Mila Turajlić examines the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement via an expansive unexplored archive of former Tito cameraman Stevan Labudović.

Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgrade, Carine Chichkowsky, Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels, CPH:DOX, decolonization, Dragan Mitrovic, Filmske novosti, human rights, IDFA, MakeDox, Mila Turajlic, NAM, NATO, Nelson Mandela, realpolitik, Sarajevo Film Festival, Stalin, Stevan Labudović, Tito, Ukraine, United, ZagrebDox

«… Who steals, rapes, plunders, tortures and kills»

Ketil Fred Hansen / March 8, 2022

FRANCE: After a number of «not a day without» statements, the French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour’s conclusion is that the country is about to be taken over by Muslims and feminists.

Africa, Algeria, Balzac, Camus, Chechnya, Emmanuel Macron, far-right, feminists, France, gender, Houellebecq, immigration, Kosovo, Montaigne, Muslims, Napoleon, polygamy, Sarkozy, Sartre, Sibeth Ndiaye, sustainability, Tocqueville

Invisible woman

Lauren Wissot / February 19, 2022

MIGRANTS: Philip Scheffner’s foray into fiction varies the game of visible and invisible until dreams and reality fuse.

Algeria, Berlinale, Caroline Kirberg, Doclisboa, Europe, France, IDFA, Merle Kröger, migrants, Philip Scheffner, Rhim Ibrir, trauma, Visions du réel

The Last Shelter, a film by Ousmane Samassekou

On the edge of the desert

Carmen Gray / May 5, 2021

MIGRANTS: The CPH:DOX winning documentary whispers migrant dreams and nightmares on the edge of the Sahara.

Africa, Algeria, Andrey S. Diarra, Burkina Faso, DOK.fest München, Dokufest, Don Edkins, Estelle Robin You, Europe, exploitation, FIFDH, FIPADOC, Gaddafi, Gao, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, IDFA, Libya, Migrant, migrants, Ousmane Samassekou, Porto/Post/Doc, Sahara Desert, The Last Shelter, Tiny Mungwe

Hearts of darkness, dreams of light

Neil Young / October 24, 2020

CONGO: Honouring survivors of his Congo’s 2000 «Six Day War» seeking acknowledgment or financial compensation for their pains.

Africa, Algeria, Aurélien Bodinaux, Belgium, Cannes Docs, Cannes Film Festival, congo, Covid-19, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dieudo Hamadi, DocAviv, DOK Leipzig, DOK.fest München, Downstream to Kinshasa, FIFDH, FIPADOC, Frédéric Féraud, IDFA, Joseph Conrad, Kinshasa, Kisinangi, Mobutu Sese Seko, nigeria, Patrice Lumumba, Quentin Laurent, TIFF, Zaire

More than sun and heat

Ketil Fred Hansen / June 30, 2019

MIGRANTS: An uneven book about people who move with a desire for a better life but encounter problems when they move «home» again.

Algeria, Alicante, Costa Blanca, Dakar, France, Global South, isis, Mexico, migrants, Norway, saudi arabia, Senegal, Spain, USA

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Culture and conscience

Dieter Wieczorek / April 24, 2019

COLONIALSM: A painful voyage back to the silenced Algerian War of Independence

Algeria, Cannes Docs, COLONIALSM, DA F, DA Films, Dorothée-Myriam Kellou, Eugénie Michel-Villette, In Mansourah you separated us, Mariem Hamidat, National Liberation Front, Sarah Stockmann