South Africa
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5 eyelet documentaries you can watch anywhere
As we move into the dog days of summer with heat waves virtually enveloping the entire world, there are few better times to sit back with a qualuty documentary. With so many choices (and platforms), we turn to one of our favourites, #eyelet, to see what is on offer around topics Modern Times Review is…
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Youth, migration, and documentary decolonisation
AFRICAN FILM: Don Edkins and Tiny Mugwe discuss the Generation Africa project.
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Alternative thinking for a better world
Democracy:The world has been and will always be changing, now probably faster than ever, and we must be all-inclusive, also to remain optimistic.
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The deceptive glitter of gold
CAPITALISM: Established as the second greatest threat to humanity after global warming, the dark heart of mining pollution in South Africa is laid bare.
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The pain of guilt
COLONIALISM: Hung on the cross of history: pain and regret stalk veterans of a controversial South African military unit in Boris Gerrets' biblically-structured Lamentations of Judas.
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A well-wrought thriller about the death of a Swedish UN Secretary-General
In his classic Mads Brügger-film style, the Danish director seeks to find out who stood behind the plane crash that killed the UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.
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It is «you whites» who created «us blacks»
AFRICA: It is false to strive for justice «at home» while constantly exploiting «over there», writes one of the contributors in a new anthology.
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Food on a tormented planet
The world’s intensive food production and the resulting resource depletion may quickly lead us into serious crises. Something must be done about it.
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Founders of Malombo jazz
A film about Malombo jazz, as played and practised by one particular group, the Three Malombo Men.