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Under The Fig Trees
A Tunisian harvest day simmers with romance, rivalry, and quiet rebellion among young women.
February 3, 2026
Road to El Kef
A vulnerable teen in rural Tunisia inches towards a dangerous path that offers belonging.
Tunis By Night
As revolution looms, a retiring radio host’s final night on air exposes a life quietly falling apart.
Papa Machete
A portrait of Professor Alfred Avril and his devotion to Haitian machete fencing.
November 13, 2025
An Owl, A Garden And The Writer
In 2016, Sara began documenting her visits to her family’s garden outside of Tehran. Here, she spends her days with her father, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, one of the most prolific contemporary Iranian novelists.
March 6, 2026
Talabgar (The Suitor)
Talabgar is devised as a comedy, with an imposter trying to obtain upward mobility by marrying the emancipated Sima.
February 19, 2026
Landscape Suspended
Through an interrogation of the landscape of Iran’s Shaho Mountain, Landscape Suspended reflects on the sociopolitical history and violence that surround the people who reside in the region.
February 5, 2026
Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices)
Using rare cinematic, photographic, and sound archives, Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) recounts the exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative created in Mali in 1977 by western African immigrant workers living in workers’ residences in France.
January 15, 2026
Fatma 75
Selma Baccar’s 1976 essay film Fatma 75 begins with a woman walking in to focus. She introduces herself as Sophonisba, an ancient Carthaginian noblewoman who, rather than submit to Roman humiliation, poisoned herself around 203 BC.
January 8, 2026
نيركوك (Nyerkuk)
After having lost his father in an air raid Adam, a ten-year-old boy, is forced to flee to the capital city, Khartoum.
December 25, 2025
A Bedouin Day
A Bedouin Day captures an intimate look into the daily life of the Bedouin, a way of living often misunderstood and mistakenly blended into a single image of Arab society.
December 11, 2025
Lo que los humanos ven como sangre, los jaguares ven como chicha (What Humans See as Blood Jaguars See as Chicha)
An experimental ethnographic study of a region in the artist’s native Bolivia that was once the centre of the Tiwanaku civilization.
December 4, 2025
Aquí
synopsis Using recent events in Puerto Rico as its point of departure, Aquí is an intimate and rigorous exploration of political protest as an affective space. about the directors Carlos Mario is a filmmaker, editor, visual artist and musician born and raised in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. His work often explores the intersections of memory and […]
November 21, 2025
1950: La Insurrección Nacionalista (The Nationalist Uprising)
Electrifying, revealing and timely, this documentary revisits a seminal event in Puerto Rico’s history: the ten days in October 1950 when one hundred people, members of the island’s Nationalist Party, took up arms to overthrow the rule of the United States and establish Puerto Rican sovereignty.
November 7, 2025
Un Gavillero en la Sierra (A Gavillero in the Sierra)
Tormented by bloody acts, a gavillero escape in search of his freedom.
October 31, 2025
The Haitian Trilogy: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
synopsis It’s New Year’s Eve in Tijuana, Mexico. Wood and Colonel are busy making Soup Joumou to celebrate Haitian Independence Day with their friends at the “Trap House”. As their cooking progresses, memories of the perilous journey that brought them to the US/Mexico border two years ago resurface. From Haiti to Brasil and through nine […]
October 23, 2025
The Haitian Trilogy: Pariah, My Brother, I Follow You, Show Me the Route to the Springs
The holiday season is fast approaching in Tijuana, Mexico where Saül and his father-in-law, Mathieu are getting ready for a busy day at the street market selling recycled tennis shoes.
The Haitian Trilogy: Una Sola Sangre
Through moments of work, rest, and celebration, the film produces a deceptively profound portrait of a family, a neighbourhood, and a nation. (Jesse Cummings)
An Excavation of Us
The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon a boat traveling through a mysterious cave named after her legend Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution.
October 16, 2025
Myanmar Anatomy
This essayistic exploration of Myanmar’s history is presented in three chapters and rooted in three locations: Yangon Zoological Gardens, the Yangon Circle Railway, and the Drug Elimination Museum.
October 2, 2025
El cuarto desnudo (The Naked Room)
The Naked Room offers a vision of a world without leaving a single space: the room where doctors visits take place in a children´s hospital in Mexico City.
September 25, 2025
Ouvertures
Moving from the frozen landscapes of the Jura mountains to the urban centres of Port-au-Prince, Ouvertures brings the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture back to life.
September 17, 2025
Dee Sitonu a Weti (Stones Have Laws)
An immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname.
Nosferasta: First Bite
Christopher Columbus uses his undead powers to create his “New World”, where he sucks the blood out of his colonial project for centuries.
Los Cimarrones (The Fugitives)
The night finds Orestes in a thick tropical forest holding a machete and looking furiously for Damián, his younger brother.
Mùa Cát Vọng (The Future Cries Beneath Our Soil)
synopsis Surrounded by the surreal landscape of Quang Tri province, four men live their lives inseparably from each other. The rhythm of their everyday lives is defined by moments of togetherness in a house with no doors where they all come to drink, smoke, play guitar and sing songs about love and the revolution of […]
September 11, 2025
زورو العراق (Visit Iraq)
Visit Iraq is a short about the abandoned Iraqi Airways office in Geneva.
September 2, 2025
Napak Tilas untuk Tiba Kembali Padamu (Pilgrimage to Arrive Back to You)
Fragments of images and words taken from my personal diaries from 2017-2024, mostly in my mother tongue.
August 28, 2025
Death to the Sound Man
Two sound recordists are working on the final mix of a short film.
August 20, 2025
Diario a Tres Voces (Three Voices)
Three Voices recounts the intimate love stories of three women of different generations: a teenager, a middle-aged divorcée, and a 90 year-old great grandmother.
August 14, 2025
Khan-e-Tarikh (House of History)
This short essay film was assembled by director Qader Tahiri from unedited newsreel footage shot by eight Afghan Films cameramen between 1993 and 1995.
August 7, 2025
Co-directed with a Ghost
This visual material was shot with no intention to make a film whatsoever – just simple takes with a non-professional actor.
August 1, 2025
Quebranto
The memory and testimony of two characters: Fernando García, known as Pinolito, who was a child actor in the seventies, and Doña Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress.
July 24, 2025
El lugar más pequeño (The Tiniest Place)
On the surface El lugar más pequeño (The Tiniest Place) is the story of Cinquera, a village literally wiped off the official map during El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.
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Miguel traces his way trying to survive. His reality becomes increasingly labyrinthine until he must eventually face up to his own being.
Omar y Gloria
Omar & Gloria dance Danzon. Gloria who is 80 years old is a woman full of light. For over 15 years Omar has been her accomplice and dancing partner.
Bigana (The Stranger)
synopsis Sanowbar, a village woman with a beautiful voice, sings folk songs while working the land with her husband, Morad. When the village chief brings a foreign guest and demands a private performance, Morad sees it as a violation of tradition and honour. Under pressure from the powerful landlord Homayun, Sanowbar is forced to sing. […]
July 17, 2025
Tell Spring Not to Come This Year
synopsis When NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan the Afghan National Army (ANA) took over control of Helmand Province, an extremely dangerous region where attacks by Taliban fighters are the order of the day. Security, much less peace, would seem to be unattainable; it is even difficult to find a common language in a country where […]
June 19, 2025
Elephantbird
synopsis The last wish of an old Afghan man is to give his “elephant-bird” (turkey) to his grandchild, but this simple wish is hard to realize. about the director Amir Masoud Soheili is an award-winning Iranian short filmmaker, festival director, and programmer. Born in 1988 in Mashhad, he studied cinema in Indonesia and South Korea. […]
Ainsi Meurent Les Anges (And So Angels Die)
Mory has been living in France for several years. He has many friends and gets married to a European with whom he has three children.
May 2, 2024
Endless, Nameless
synopsis Endless, Nameless is a hand-processed Super 8 film, shot in the private garden of a Thai army officer. The film reconstructs the filmmaker’s memories about groups of conscripts who worked in his father’s garden. The film was created as a self-hypnosis to reinvestigate his existence. about the director Pathompon ‘Mont’ Tesprateep was born in […]
June 5, 2025
Xalé
Awa, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, is happily living her teenage years alongside her twin brother Adama who dreams of Europe.
May 26, 2025
Jëf Jël
On Baye Fall spirituality. The “Baay Faal” are members of the sub-brotherhood dedicated to serving the Mouride marabouts.
May 25, 2025
Yoole (The Sacrifice)
In April 2006, a small boat was found drifting aimlessly along the eastern coast of Barbados. Local fishermen left the boat alone for many weeks, assuming it had something to do with drug smuggling. It later emerged that the boat contained the bodies of 11 Senegalese people who had set out to Europe four months earlier.
May 26, 2025
Khâkestar-o-khâk (Earth and Ashes)
synopsis Dastaguir sits on the side of the road, his young grandson, Yassin, at his side. A desolate Afghan landscape stretches out all around. That road leads to a far-off coalmine, Dastaguir’s dreaded, yet ultimate, destination. He is on a desultory journey to see his son, the child’s father, who works in the mines. He […]
May 22, 2025
No Exorcism Film
As one robotic voice recounts nightmarish returns to Thailand, another seeks to console.
May 14, 2025
إحكي يا عصفورة (Tell Your Tale, Little Bird)
synopsis Seven militant women (fedaiyat) of the revolutionary generation tell the story of the Palestinian resistance through accounts of their own lives. Cut from 35 hours of interviews with leaders of the armed struggle, the film presents an image of confident, unapologetic, and proud feminine identity. Together, the memories of these women narrate the dream […]
May 1, 2025
I Have a Picture
With the help of El Homossany, one of the oldest assistant directors in Egypt, Zedan, a young indie filmmaker, is making a documentary about Motawe Eweis, who has worked as an extra in about 1000 films in the Egyptian Cinema from the forties till now.
April 24, 2025
Kamay
A Hazara family from Afghanistan seeks justice after the death of their daughter at Kabul University.
April 10, 2025
The Forbidden Reel
Driven to create amidst war and chaos, Afghan filmmakers gave birth to an extraordinary national cinema.
أوضة الفيران (The Mice Room)
Six different characters roaming in Alexandria along with their fears. Amr comes back to meet his father on his death bed, not sure how he can speak up and show his true feelings.
March 20, 2025
Laila at the Bridge
Laila Haidari survived child marriage and her own traumatic past to battle one of the deadliest problems in Afghanistan: heroin addiction. As the “mother of the addicts,” she must prevail over a crisis of addiction and a corrupt government in a country on the verge of collapse.
April 10, 2025
جولة ميم المملة (The Tedious Tour of M)
Hend approaches the long forgotten, but much respected, novelist Mohamed Hafez Ragab in his simple apartment where he decided to seclude himself in the eighties.
March 20, 2025
خانه (The Silhouettes)
At the height of the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1982, 1.5 million Afghans took a long journey to the border of Iran to flee war.
April 10, 2025
نسخة شعبية (Local Copy)
In the lively plaza before the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Marwa and her friend meet a familiar client, Adel, and his companion.
March 20, 2025
Slingshot Hip Hop
Slingshot Hip Hop documents the emergence and evolution of Palestinian Hip Hop, weaving together the narratives of resilient young artists navigating life in Gaza, the West Bank, and Palestine 48.
April 4, 2025
سوف تطاردك المدينة (The City Will Pursue You)
In Alexandria, Ossama follows stories of old buildings being demolished and historical landmarks disappearing.
March 20, 2025
Nasser
Beginning in 1952, with the resistance against the British Occupation, the film follows the rise to power of Egypt’s iconic leader Gamal Abdul Nasser.
March 6, 2025
A Labor Theory of Artistic Value
synopsis Mothers can do anything! (an artist tries to find the time to write a theoretical text). Exploring the intersections between gendered reproductive labor that keeps the cultural space in motion, and the reproductive labor of motherhood, A Labor Theory of Artistic Value, on Mothering and Art combines video projection, a delivered text, and a […]
February 27, 2025
Going for a Ride?
synopsis The video is based on the construction of the art installation Going for a Ride? (23 June 2002) by the Palestinian artist Vera Tamari, documented and produced by filmmaker Nahed Awwad. “When the Israelis withdrew leaving destruction, we read a comment in ‘Haaretz’ to the effect that ‘we thought we have destroyed all the […]
What’s softest in the world rushes and runs over what’s hardest in the world.
“What’s softest…” is a glimpse of queer parenthood in Singapore, where such families are illegitimate under the eyes of the law. Like Kin, the hybrid documentary film combines interview material with a constructed communal space for play and imagination.
February 13, 2025
14 Years and a Day
In a riveting tale of love and self-discovery, a restless young woman finds herself embroiled in a passionate conflict with her partner of 14 years.
Les Femmes Palestiniennes (Palestinian Women)
Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the war, are here given a voice by Jocelyne Saab.
January 30, 2025
Nation Estate
Nation Estate is a 9-minute sci-fi short film offering a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East.
January 23, 2025
A Room with a Coconut View
Through a fictionalized account of the bodiless voices hovering over commercially made presentation and historical strata, A Room with a Coconut View is an essayistic investigation of the politico-aesthetic relation through imagery surface and its netlike-technology apparatuses with a capitalistic-dictatorial-touristy regime as a backdrop.
January 7, 2025
Tropic Fever
Tropic Fever uncovers the racial and spatial imprints of colonial plantations and their entanglement with our contemporary society.
January 3, 2025
Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali (Tobacco Embers)
Tambaku Chaakila Oob Aali traces the history and strike actions of the all women trade union of over 3000 tobacco workers in Nipani (Karnataka). It was made in collaboration with female tobacco factory workers.
December 20, 2024
Molkarin (Maid Servant)
Molkarin exposes the oppressive working conditions of thousands of domestic workers in Pune. Through re-enactments of significant moments of the original process of unionising, the film narrates the coming together of women workers and union activists to form the Pune Shahar Molkarin Sanghatana (Pune City Domestic Workers Union) to fight for their rights.
December 13, 2024
Tigress
When a young Tamil-Canadian woman comes face to face with another version of herself as a paramilitary fighter for the Tamil Tigers — her sense of western privilege collides with the reality of her ancestors.
November 28, 2024
Lok Sath (People’s Tribunal)
The true story of a rural community’s resistance to the building of a coal power plant in Pakistani Punjab, Lok Sath is an experimental short featuring stills, video footage, abstract art and exquisite animations by Iranian artist and filmmaker Neda Ahmadi.
November 13, 2024
On a le Temps Pour Nous (Time is on Our Side)
Burkina Faso, October 2014. What many had not dared to imagine happened. The people of Burkina Faso put an end to the reign of Blaise Compaoré. Rapper Smockey, a member of Balai Citoyen, is one of the architects of this change, of the victory of utopia over reality.
October 25, 2024
Pesantren (A Boarding School)
Pesantren offers a rare look inside an Islamic boarding school, showing the practice and ideology of a traditional educational system based on peaceful religious teachings that has been practiced in Indonesia for centuries.
October 17, 2024
Madame Brouette
Proud and independent, Mati, also known as Madame Brouette (“Mrs. Wheelbarrow”), makes a living by pushing her wheelbarrow through the marketplace in Sandaga, Senegal.
September 11, 2024
To Pick A Flower
This video essay incorporates archival photographs from the American Colonial Era in the Philippines (1898–1946), exploring the sticky relationship between humans and nature and their entanglements with empire.
September 26, 2024
Cerita Dari Pulau Karaka (A Story From Karaka Island)
Mama Dobo, Mama Maria Gema, Mama Yakoba and Mama Anas are four mamas who among many others are often asked for help by the residents of Karaka Island to assist mothers giving birth.
September 12, 2024
Fofo Means Father
After some years of grappling with a mental health struggle that stole pieces of his personal and professional life, Fofo finds his way back to his true love: Cinema.
September 5, 2024
Welu de Fasli (Candlenut’s Fasli)
synopsis Welu de Fasli is a series of dialogues and activities performed by Fasli (4 years old) in a kitchen. Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. Fasli’s father died in 2013. The next year, Fasli was left by his mother. She went to Kalimantan, […]
August 29, 2024
Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me, Paradise)
Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me, Paradise) is a science fiction documentary that uses the backdrop of Hong Kong and the various ways in which the Filipina migrant worker occupies Central on Sundays.
August 22, 2024
Sugiharti Halim
What’s in a name? For Sugiharti Halim, though, a name can lead to a never-ending question. At times funny, annoying, and contradictory: Does one really need a “real” name?
August 8, 2024
Golden Memories (Petite Histoire of Indonesian Cinema)
Three filmmakers explore the traces of home cinema in Indonesia. Along the way, they encounter the cinema of Kwee Zwan Liang and the cinema of Rusdy Attamimi.
August 1, 2024
বাগানিয়া / Baganiya (Garden of Memories)
The story is about the mundane life of a tea community, where the old chief Padmoluv awaits his death and often reminisces about the past controlled by the colonial masters.
July 17, 2024
What The Soil Remembers
What the Soil Remembers examines the trauma of a community uprooted during the Apartheid regime, making way for an educational institution that would become synonymous with the foundation of white supremacist ideologies.
July 4, 2024
بين موتين / Bayna Mawtayn (Between Two Deaths)
Between Two Deaths tells the story of a peasant couple from Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights as they navigate their lives amidst ongoing conflict.
June 27, 2024
Soundless Dance
2009, the de-facto state of Tamil Eelam is in chaos. The war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), fighting for an independent Tamil state, and the Sinhalese state army has ravaged the island for almost thirty years.
June 6, 2024
L’Escale (The Stopover)
Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for the screening of their new film. During a layover in Angola, they’re stopped at the airport because the airline doesn’t trust their documents to be real.
May 30, 2024
Le Cri de La Mer (The Cry of The Sea)
The Cry of the Sea is about the struggle of a mother, Yaye Bayam Diouf, who lost her only son in a dugout (or boat) for the Canary Islands.
May 15, 2024
Turup (Checkmate)
In a neighborhood in Bhopal, chess is a popular pass time with roadside games bringing together men from different strata.
May 10, 2024
Tableau Ferraille
Tableau Ferraille is a working-class neighborhood about ten kilometers outside Senegal’s capital, Dakar. It is on the coast and populated by fishermen, but despite the coconut trees and colorful boats, it is no paradise.
April 19, 2024
Ça Twiste à Popenguine (Twisting in Popenguine)
In post-colonial Senegal in the 1960s, teenagers in a small village form two small rival cliques: Les Ins, who prefer French pop singers, and The Kings, who favor American music.
April 11, 2024
Stud Life
Stud Life is a light amusing take on Queer street life in London. The film is a post-modern LGBTQIA+ take for the social media generation. Stud Life deals with sex and sexuality and taboo subjects in London’s Queer community.
February 1, 2024
Difficult Love
Difficult Love is an intimate, thought-provoking portrait of internationally celebrated South African lesbian photographer, Zanele Muholi, and their highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa.
I Am Samuel
Samuel grew up in the Kenyan countryside, where tradition is valued above all else. He is close to his mother but his father, a local pastor, does not understand why he is not married yet.
How Not to Date While Trans
How Not To Date While Trans is a break-the-fourth-wall, dark comedy that follows the dating life of a Black trans woman and the problematic cis-men she meets along the way.
Umunthu
Filmmaker Mwizalero Nyirenda goes on a minibus journey with two friends who have opposing views on same-sex criminalization. They talk to outspoken public figures and everyday Malawians to debate the issue.
The Art of Sin
After coming to Norway as a refugee, Ahmed Umar has become a renowned artist. Proud of his roots, his art mixes Sudanese and Western influences. In 2015, he came out as gay on Facebook, making him the first openly gay man from Sudan – this caused massive outrage in the Sudanese community.
Ìfé
A Nigerian drama about love, acceptance, rejection, homophobia, and sacrifice. Ìfé and Adaora fall in love over a three-day date.
Country Love
Kambili returns home after fifteen years when his sister, Nneka, writes him a heartfelt letter of reconciliation. Upon his return, Kambili is confronted by the bitter-sweet memories of his childhood, his estranged relationship with his family, and his affection for his boyhood friend, Ifediora.
Forbidden Fruit
This film tells the story of two women lovers named Nongoma and Tsitsi who live in the countryside in Zimbabwe. Lesbian relationships are very much taboo in Zimbabwe and, when their secret affair is discovered, Nongoma is obliged to run away from her village and escape to the city.
Tchindas
Within a small tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes will capture the town’s imagination. Despite her great reputation, Tchinda remains humble.
Movements of Migration
Movements Of Migration is a desktop documentary exploring the archive to map the connectedness of movement, migration and family histories.
March 23, 2024
Días de Luz (Days of Light)
During five days a solar storm hits Central America. People In each of these countries will have to face life in its more basic terms, disconnected from the technology they normally depend on.
February 1, 2024
Al Otro Lado de La Niebla (Behind the Mist)
Iván Vallejo, the first Ecuadorian to summit Mount Everest, wants to make a film which will commemorate his trajectory. He invites Sebastián Cordero to the project, an Ecuadorian filmmaker who premiered his first film in Venice the same year that Iván achieved his feat.
January 25, 2024
The Land of My Forefathers
A filmmaker researching the archeological history of Balochistan discovers that the place he comes from has great archeological significance but it is largely undocumented.
January 17, 2024
Mayday! May Day! Mayday!
In their five-year ongoing strike, the workers are still surviving and struggling to make ends meet. Deni Purba sells used clothes after being released from prison.
January 4, 2024
Ibegwa
Ibegwa is a short film that tells the story of Guani, an albino Gunadule boy who lives with constant discrimination for being different.
December 29, 2023
Sedap Malam (Agave Amica)
Immense funerals take place at once, leaving behind exhausted gravediggers and mourning families. Some flowers are brought to the graves to honor the dead.
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December 14, 2023
Maryam
Maryam is a maid who is responsible to take care of her “master” who has a mental disorder because of a certain situation.
December 7, 2023
El Amparo
At the end of the 80’s, by the creeks of the Arauca River, near the Colombian – Venezuelan border, two men survived the brutality of a shooting in which 14 of their mates were killed.
November 30, 2023
You Hide Me
Made 50 years ago, the film reveals for the first time hundreds of thousands of previously unseen rare Asante art treasures stolen by the British.
November 23, 2023
Los Lobos (The Wolves)
Together with their mother Lucia, the brothers Max and Leo have just crossed the border from Mexico into the United States in search of a better life. But it is not easy for them to gain a foothold in their new home.
November 16, 2023
Sindhustan
Sapna Moti Bhavnani tells the story of her ancestral community, the Sindhis, through personal stories and illustrations on skin— tattoos.
October 19, 2023
Mangga Golek Matang di Pohon (The Mangoes)
Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is something of an attraction to transgender people. Renita lives in Jakarta in a tiny space that doubles as her hairdressing salon. Local women and children come here to have their hair done, and she has a lot of friends who are also transgender.
October 1, 2023
When Women Speak
This documentary challenges perceptions that Ghanaian women’s activism around existential and political issues is of more recent or ‘western’ origin.
Sola (Alone)
After showing herself as she is, Luisa, who’s dedicated to crest traditional Andean textiles, is rejected by her nephew and her whole town.
September 25, 2023
Saya di Sini, Kau di Sana (A Tale of the Crocodile’s Twin)
The conflict between humans and crocodiles at the estuary of the Palu bay was first archived during the reign of the Dutch government, in the 1930s. The incident is known as the shooting of La Garoba (a crocodile) by John Fischer, using gold bullets. After that, pieces of human bodies were found inside La Garoba’s stomach.
September 13, 2023
Segudang Wajah Para Penantang Masa Depan (The Myriad Faces Of The Future Challengers)
Emboldened by the 1966 Order of Eleventh March that handed him unrestricted power to restore control after the military coup attempt on October 1st 1965, General Suharto made himself de-facto leader of Indonesia, which he – soon officially installed as President – would remain until 1998.
Independência (Independence)
The documentary Independence was born out of the need to preserve history (and the stories) of participants in the struggle for the liberation of Angola.
Di Balik Cahaya Gemerlapan (Sang Arsip) (Behind the Flickering Light (The Archive))
A tribute to Indonesian legend Haji Misbach Yusa Biran, Behind The Flickering Light (The Archive) traces the personal life of the famous archivist, who founded Southeast Asia’s first film archive – Sinematek Indonesia.
Trans Kashmir
For generations, the transgender women of Kashmir have worked as matchmakers and performers but their gender, economic and socio-political realities make them some of the most vulnerable people in the world today.
Naga yang Berjalan di Atas Air (The Dragon Who Walks On The Water)
A little story from the border city of Tangerang and Bogor Regency, where Kang Sui Liong, the temple guard, lives with his wife and son. Times change.
Eye Test
Eye Test is a short fiction film which explores the affective atmosphere of a mother-daughter relationship, death and bereavment through the realm of memory, following her own mother’s death a few years back.
Iwianch, el Diablo Venado (Iwianch, the Devil Deer)
An enigmatic presence haunts the depths of the Amazon rainforest, where an indigenous Achuar teenager has disappeared.
Blood Earth
Kucheipadar, a Khonda tribal village in Odisha, India, is a bauxite-rich block that, since India’s economic liberalization, has been the subject of violent conflict between the indigenous Adivasi inhabitants and a mining venture.
A Walnut Tree
An elderly man living in the Jalozai Camp feels desperately nostalgic and longs to go home.
Khartoum Offside
A group of young women in Khartoum are determined to play football professionally, resisting the imposed ban by Sudan’s military dictatorship. Through an intimate documentary portrait, we follow these women over a few years in their courageous struggle to officially establish Sudan’s National Women’s Football team.
August 23, 2023
Caméra d’Afrique (Twenty Years of African Cinema)
In 1983, filmmaker Férid Boughedir took the initiative to look back on the past twenty years of African cinema through interviews with African filmmakers and actors, and excerpts from 18 films. A homage to the history of “postcolonial” African cinema.
La Saison des Hommes (The Season of Men)
As Aïcha (Rabia Ben Abdallah) and her two daughters return to the island of Djerba from Tunis, past and present start to juxtapose, and we observe how the family is at the core of the patriarchal systems. An essential feminist critique.
Monangambeee
After centuries of colonization of Angola by the Portuguese, Sarah Maldoror’s Monangambeee brings to the big screen for the first time a story based on an Angolan short story, O Fato Completo de Lucas Matesso by Luandino Vieira, with two Angolan liberation fighters (Elisa Andrade and Carlos Pestana) acting as protagonists.
Rekava
Rekava by Lester James Peries is a classic in Sri Lanka (then the Dominion of Ceylon). Based in a Sri Lankan village, the film tells of Sena, a young boy and healer, and the social frictions his abilities lay bear.
La Noire De…
In La Noire De… Sembène offers a novel postcolonial reading of the relationship between France and Senegal, showing, camera in hand, that the defense of the working class is what motivated his cinematic work.
Borom Sarret
Borom Sarret, as the name suggests, follows the daily trials and tribulations of Abdoulaye Ly, a cart driver by trade. He travels around certain roads of Dakar, his cart pulled by his loyal horse AlBourakh.
Tajouj
Considered the first feature film of Sudanese production, the film lends itself to the epic genre, as it is adapted from a folklore Sudanese tale on the values of heroism, bravery, and love.
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