music
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FOSTA
MUSIC: What does rehabilitation look like? FOSTA, the titular subject in this documentary, seeks to show us through his journey from the violent gangs in the Cape Flats to the electrifying world of Electronic Dance Music.
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Notes from the Underground
MUSIC: Forced removal, racialised geography, and cultural survival converge in a layered portrait of Cape hip-hop.
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Orlando Pantera
MUSIC: Catarina Alves Costa’s portrait of Orlando Pantera avoids the mythology of his death, choosing instead a slow, humane chorus of voices, landscapes, and songs.
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Doclibsoa announces new «Heart Beat» and «From the Earth to the Moon» 2025 titles
Doclisboa has announced a cross-arts lineup linking cinema with pop and performance. In «Heart Beat», Stéphane Ghez’s Welcome to Lynchland receives a national premiere, surveying David Lynch’s pop-surrealist practice with long-time collaborators. Lynch returns with Duran Duran Unstaged, a concert film of the Los Angeles show. Alison Ellwood’s Boy George & Culture Club offers an…
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Third World
MUSIC: The liminal experience of legendary Croatian band Haustor – which shaped the former Yugoslavia new wave music scene in the 1980s – is explored in Arsen Oremović's Third World.
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Lost For Words
NATURE: A gentle appeal for reconnecting to nature through the language we have so long used to describe.
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Musical resilience
CULTURE: An insight into the unique liveliness of a forgotten subculture from emigrated Turkish guest workers and their grandchildren in Germany.
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The three ecologies
CLIMATE: What connects the city of Siracusa with the UN and a French philosopher?

