colonisation
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Porto/Post/Doc 2025: The complete winners
The 2025 Porto/Post/Doc Festival has announced its awards, led by Nastia Korkia’s Short Summer, which won the Vicente Pinto Abreu Grand Prix for best film in the International Competition. The international jury said the decision was unanimous, and pointed to the film’s poetry and symbolism in crafting a childhood story set in a geography marked…
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Volker Schlöndorff – Full of hope for Africa
ENVIRONMENT: «It's about changing mindsets», says Volker Schlöndorff. Jokingly, the German veteran director refers to his new documentary on agronomist Tony Rinaudo's reforestation projects in Africa as propaganda.
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Neither banal nor evil
CONTROL: A search for understanding from a survivor of Aum Shinrikyo's 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subway.
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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.
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Above us, About us: Two new documentaries from Rotterdam
IFFR:This year‘s film festival in Rotterdam unveiled several documentaries and shorts, amongst them Above Us Only Sky – a calming exercise in intellectual and sensual stimulation – and Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us, which proved to be a rough, angry gem of a picture.
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Africa on African terms
AFRICA: It is a paradox that Africa is assessed in relation to Europe rather than being compared to itself and its own values.
