Ghost Elephants
NATURE: With Ghost Elephants, Werner Herzog creates another work within his transgressive anthropology.
Angola
Mário
DECOLONISATION: A forgotten story of decolonial struggle and exile, chronicling the MPLA’s visionary founder, Mário Pinto de Andrade.
A film from the dark side
HISTORY: Whatever happened to those who dreamed of space travel, wanting to be astronauts when they grew up?
Entangled perspectives of war
COLONIALISM: An intimate portrait of Portugal’s colonial war from those who lived through it.
La memoria es un campo de minas.
MEMORY: Un viaje a la vida y experiencia de un ex combatiente en la guerra colonial portuguesa.
Last stop utopia
CUBA: After ushering in the American Empire and its eventual revolt against it, Hubert Sauper takes an immersive look at Cuba and its people.
Memory is a minefield
MEMORY: A journey into the life and experience of a former fighter in the Portuguese colonial war.
Flashy Norwegian-supported consumption in Africa
CORRUPTION: We haven’t heard much about Luanda Leaks in Norway. Perhaps because it is embarrassing that Statoil paid NOK 420 million to a non-existent research centre owned by Angola’s state oil company Sonangol, where Isabel dos Santos was the director until she was fired in November 2017?
The Cuban veteran for whom the Revolution lives on
As his country slowly moves past its communist decades, a Cuban veteran is stuck in the past.
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.
The many faces of a dictatorship
We know what was happening in Portugal for decades under the dictatorial Salazar regime.