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Foundations of Black Epistemology: Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY: Adebayo Oluwayomi’s Foundations of Black Epistemology reframes Fanon, Biko, and others, arguing for truth-seeking Black knowledge beyond Western foundations.
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DOK Leipzig 2025 unveils US-focused Retrospective and twin Homages
The 68th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (27 Oct–2 Nov) will pair a historically framed Retrospective on critical U.S. cinema with Homages to filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt and the abstract-animation platform Punto y Raya. Titled «Un-American Activities: Films from the ‘Other America’ at the Leipzig Documentary Film Week from 1962 to 1989,»…
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Dokufest: Guardians of Democracy in Past Imperfect
DEMOCRACY: In light of the Western political discourse increasingly revealing its own hypocrisy, four DokuFest short films revisit the past, uncovering details that cast new light on the shaken image of today's so-called liberal order.
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Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd
RACISM: They knelt on his neck; the world stood up—but how long did it stay standing?
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19th ethnocineca to open with intimate portrait of war, memory, and displacement
The 19th edition of #ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna will open on 8 May 2025, with the Austrian premiere of Home Game by #Lidija Zelovic#. The festival, which runs through May 14 at Vienna’s Votiv Kino and Kino De France, brings a thematic focus on «Hauntings»—a reflection on how history lingers in personal…
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Free Leonard Peltier
RESISTANCE: Indigenous resistance clashes with institutional power, exposing deep historical injustices and manufactured trials.
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Smokehouses and soundscapes at the 65th Kraków Film Festival
The 65th Kraków Film Festival will open on 25 May 2025 with the world premiere of The Queen and the Smokehouse, a debut feature by Polish director Iga Lis. Lis’s film tells the story of Miecia, the formidable matriarch of a smokehouse in the coastal town of Łeba. For decades, her fish delicacies have drawn…
