Habibi Hussein
PALESTINE: From Jenin to future Gaza rebuilds, one cinema’s reopening becomes parable of aid spectacle, cultural erasure, and sidelined local knowledge.
colonialism
The art of information
INTERVIEW: In his master class at Makedox, Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper exposed how to «write-in-movement», which literally means «cinemato-graphy». He also talked about political cinema and mental ecology. We met him for our in-depth film interview, especially about his last three films.
Foundations of Black Epistemology: Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY: Adebayo Oluwayomi’s Foundations of Black Epistemology reframes Fanon, Biko, and others, arguing for truth-seeking Black knowledge beyond Western foundations.
Generation Gaza: Among the Israelis in India
ISRAEL: Among Himalaya backpackers, Israelis process 7 October, Gaza memories, and identity crisis—numbed by drugs, haunted by politics, searching elusive peace.
Where Zebus Speak French
POST-COLONIALISM: A community compelled into powerful resistance to defend their culture and legacy against foreign forces seeking to erase their land, lives, and history.
The Empty Grave
COLONIALISM: A Tanzanian lawyer’s quest to reclaim ancestral remains reveals the deep-rooted legacy of German colonial violence and systemic silence.
ethnocineca: «There’s no way to escape it; it is part of my history»
ETHNOCINECA: «Hauntings» curator Jacqueline Nsiah speaks candidly about cinema’s power to hold contradiction, the emotional labour of curating haunted narratives, and the radical act of asking unanswerable questions.
Ethnocineca 2025 announces programme under the theme of “Hauntings”
The 19th edition of #ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna will take place from May 8 to 14, 2025,
«Let’s Talk Climate!» – African Encounters 2025 at DOK.fest München
Since 2013, #DOK.fest München# has maintained a thematic commitment to the African continent. Through its African Encounters strand, the festival
You Need This
MEDIA: Unpacking the history of advertising and media manipulation, this film exposes capitalism’s relentless push toward overconsumption, inequality, and planetary destruction.
Ancestral Visions of the Future
EXILE: Blending docufiction and philosophy, Lemohang Mosese redefines home, exile, and human interconnectedness through Ubuntu and radical decolonial storytelling.
Raoul Peck announced as 2025 Visions du Réel guest of honour
Renowned Haitian filmmaker #Raoul Peck# has been named Guest of Honour for the 56th edition of Visions du Réel, taking