The pain of guilt
COLONIALISM: Hung on the cross of history: pain and regret stalk veterans of a controversial South African military unit in Boris Gerrets’ biblically-structured Lamentations of Judas.
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Colonial heritage
COLONIALISM: Two worlds collide during a trip down the Amazon in search of the mixed language Nheengatu, imposed upon indigenous by Portuguese conquerors.
É Tudo Verdade/It’s All True at Cannes Docs – Marché du Film
Amir Labaki founder and director of It’s All True, celebrating it’s 25th edition this year. Anna Glogowski as moderator and
Rolling thunder in Africa’s wild, wild west
COLONIALISM: A mad max-inspired terrain exists on Earth, and it is a no man’s land in Mauritania.
The journey of a ghost
COLONIALISM: Almost 500 years after the Spanish Conquest, a ghostly figure merges history and the present reflecting on the legacy of colonialism.
Decolonise feminism!
FEMINISM: The message in the new and well-written book by the French political scientist Françoise Vergès is that Western feminists must lift their gaze and see that, through their own struggles, they are keeping their fellow sisters down.
Kinshasa’s «theatre without end»
COLONIALISM: Four filmmakers search for a new way to tell the story of Kinshasa, looking to the city’s performance artists and their subversion of colonialism’s legacy.
A well-wrought thriller about the death of a Swedish UN Secretary-General
In his classic Mads Brügger-film style, the Danish director seeks to find out who stood behind the plane crash that killed the UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.
Colonial voyeurism revisited
COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new.
The language of rebellion
Concerning violence is one of the best films I have even seen on repression and rebellion.