colonialism
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Portuguese films shine across 2024 MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival programme
The MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival will take place from 29 July to 4 August, 2024. This year’s event highlights critical themes such as #immigration, clandestinity, #colonialism, #human rights#, and environmental issues through a selection of nine compelling Portuguese films. Among the national premieres is Savanna and the Mountain by Paulo Carneiro, a documentary…
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Being in the opposing position
ŽIŽEK: Despite being a public intellectual for at least 30 years, there has been no previous discussion of Slavoj Žižek's thought as multifaceted and nuanced as the one we see in the current anthology. But does Žižek recognise the revolutionary potential of desire?
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A film from the dark side
HISTORY: Whatever happened to those who dreamed of space travel, wanting to be astronauts when they grew up?
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Report: Sunny Side of the Doc Innovation Studio
SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC: Concluding on 22 June, the 34th Sunny Side of the Doc featured a noticeable uptick in presented immersive content.
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CPH:DOX announces 2023 opening film
Greenlandic-Danish film Twice Colonized will be the 2023 #CPH:DOX# (15 – 26 March) opening film. The film from Director #Lin Alluna# will also compete in the NEXT:WAVE competition. The opening night of CPH:DOX 2023 will take place on 15 March at the international concert venue in Copenhagen, DR Koncerthuset. Twice Colonized asks: how can we…
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A politically correct decolonisation ideology?
MODERNISATION: Nigerian professor Olùfèmi Táíwò examines power relations between former colonised and colonialists. All states struggle to adapt modern institutions to their own history, cultural context, and ideological climate. But can the demand for decolonizing language become absurd?
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The earth doesn’t lie
COLONIALISM: Charting the French civil rights movement and the interwoven anti-colonial liberation struggles on the African continent through the life of activist and photographer, Bouba Touré.
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Entangled perspectives of war
COLONIALISM: An intimate portrait of Portugal's colonial war from those who lived through it.
