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Ghost Elephants

Dieter Wieczorek / September 19, 2025

NATURE: With Ghost Elephants, Werner Herzog creates another work within his transgressive anthropology.

Angola, CPH:DOX, Doclisboa, Ghost Elephants, Kalahari, Luchazi, Namibia, nature, nigeria, Service, Skellig Rock, Sobey Road Entertainment, Steve Boyes, The Roots Production, Visions du réel, Werner Herzog

«African cinema today stands at a dynamic crossroads»

Steve Rickinson / October 21, 2024

FILM AFRICA: In our conversation with Lead Curator Keith Shiri, we explore how this year’s selection highlights evolving African cinema, amplifying voices while addressing funding and distribution challenges.

Africa, diversity, Film Africa, gender, Keith Shiri, mental health, Netflix, nigeria, Sandra Hebron, social justice

Sunny Sideof the Doc La Rochelle Pavillion

Sunny Side of the Doc 2024: Shaping the Future of Documentary Filmmaking

Modern Times Review / June 7, 2024

Sunny Side of the Doc is set to return to La Rochelle from 24 to 27 June, 2024, celebrating its

Australia, Brazil, China, DocSafe, France, nigeria, Sunny Side of the Doc

Johatsu - Into Thin Air Andreas Hartmann, Arata Mori

Life without papers

Melita Zajc / May 21, 2024

MODERNITY: Revealing the hidden world of the evaporated.

Andreas Hartmann, Arata Mori, BR Bayerischer Rundfunk, capitalism, CAT&Docs, CPH:DOX, DocsBarcelona, DOK.fest München, German Films, Global North, Global South, Johatsu - Into Thin Air, Margaret Thatcher, modernity, Mori Film, nigeria, organised crime, Ossa Film, Sofia DocuMENTAL, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, ZagrebDox

a boat filled with migrants in the Mediterranean sea

When it’s about life

Truls Lie / September 1, 2023

REFUGEES: In Sicily, we meet Morgan Lescot on the rescue ship Ocean Viking for a conversation about boat refugees, challenges, and Europe’s responsibility. Is this a tragedy that will only continue to increase?

climate change, Egypt, Europe, Giorgia Meloni, Italy, Libya, Malta, Morgan Lescot, nigeria, Norway, Red Cross, refugees, Sea Watch, Sicily, somalia, Syria, violence, war, Warsan, West Africa

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels Mila Turajlić

Colonial past, today

Melita Zajc / August 9, 2023

AFRICA: An exploration of rare archival material that unveils the significance of Algeria’s fight for independence and its implications for modern-day Africa.

Africa, Algeria, Algerian War, ALN, Belgrade, Bola Tinubu, Burkina Faso, Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels, DOK Lepzig, Dribbling Pictures, ECOWAS, EU, France, IDFA, Mali, Mila Turajlic, Mohamed Bazoum, Niger, nigeria, Non-Aligned, Sarajevo Film Festival, Survivance, Tito, uranium, USA, Visions du réel, Yugoslavia

Expanded Visions A New Anthropology of the Moving Image

At the border of art and anthropology

Steve Rickinson / March 1, 2023

Anthropology: On a new, participatory, inclusive artistic anthropology.

Anthropology, art, artificial intelligence, Benin City, British Museum, Chris Marker, cinema, Cyrill Lachauer, Duncan Campbell, Ethiopia, ethnography, fascists, film, Gilles Deleuze, Hubert Fichte, immersive media, Leonore Mau, Mapuche, nigeria, photofilm

Le spectre de Boko Haram Cyrielle Raingou

The colour of the sky

Melita Zajc / February 10, 2023

CAMEROON: A group of children carve out their own worlds amid the dangers of armed conflict.

Boko haram, Cameroon, chad, Chibok, Cyrielle Raingou, global warming, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, IFFR, Kolofata, Label Vidéo, Le spectre de Boko Haram, Mali, Muhammadu Buhari, muslim, Niger, nigeria, refugee, Tara Group

Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously

A politically correct decolonisation ideology?

Ketil Fred Hansen / January 20, 2023

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?

Africa, colonialism, culture, decolonisation, Democracy, education, Gayatri Spivak, Kikuyu, language, modernisation, nigeria, philosophy, Yoruba

Violence, Labor and Resources By Alessio Iocchi

Muslim elites, exercise of power, and terror

Ketil Fred Hansen / January 20, 2023

AFRICA: What can a book say about Boko Haram or the porous border between present-day Cameroon and present-day Chad? Or about the pre-colonial Kingdom of Kanem-Bornu?

Africa, Boko haram, Bol, Cameroon, chad, colonization, Gustav Nachtigal, Ibn Khaldun, Lake Chad, Libya, Muhammed Yusuf, Nguéli, Niger, nigeria, power, Sahel, slave trade, slaves, United Nations

New cinematic form for a better world

Melita Zajc / July 13, 2022

DISSENT: The hybrid Cinéma du réel Grand Prize winner follows an all-female gang who roam one of Brazil’s biggest favelas selling cheap fuel.

Adirley Queirós, Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta, Berlinale, Cinéma du réel, CPH:DOX, crude oil, Dilma Rousseff, DISSENT, DISSENT:, Dry Ground Burning, Gayatri Spivak, Glen Greenwald, IDFA, IndieLisboa, Jair Bolsonaro, Joana Pimenta, João Matos, Julian Assange, nigeria, pollution, poverty, surveillance, ZagrebDox

The curse of colonial consumption

Carmen Gray / March 31, 2022

PROSTITUTION: How the Nigerian mafia is able to reach far into Europe to keep trafficked women in prostitution.

Arndt Fehl, Chiara Sambuchi, colonialism, coronavirus, CPH:DOX, Dokufest, drug trade, Europe, France, Italy, Mafia, nigeria, organised crime, prostitution, sex trade, The Deal, Visioni dal Mondo