Sahara
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The Legend of the Desert
SAHARA: recordings of this trip to the Sahara from the 1990s in the family archives
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The True Lies of Hassen Ferhani
Visions du Réel: The Nyon festival included a retrospective of Algerian director Hassen Ferhani who also taught a masterclass where he proclaimed: «I don’t lie, but I don’t fall into truth.» What does this say about his films?
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Memory is a minefield
MEMORY: A journey into the life and experience of a former fighter in the Portuguese colonial war.
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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.
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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.
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Re-foresting the desert humans made
CLIMATE CHANGE: Malian musician Inna Modja takes an epic journey down Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall project where 8,000km wall of trees is to stretch across the entire continent.
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Elite liberalism + mass nationalism = true
GLOBALISATION: For political scientist Jean François Bayart, globalisation and the development of national identity are complementary processes.