Politics

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In 1957, Ghana was the first African country to become independent of its colonial rulers, in this case the British. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of what in 1960 became the Republic of Ghana, called on Africans from all over the world to come to Ghana to help build the new nation. The most important aim was to “undo the damage caused by the slave trade” as filmmaker Shirikiana Aina expressed it in her documentary Footprints of Pan Africanism. Several people speak in Aina’s film about the reconstruction of Ghana and Nkrumah, who was deposed in 1966, offering room for their frequently gripping personal stories. These are often marked by racism, the emerging civil rights movement and what it’s like to be black and live elsewhere. For many, returning to Africa was like going home.Read More »

A documentary on the Iranian revolution from the point of view of Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab with Rafic Boustani. Filmed in 1980 during the early stages of post-revolution transition also captured in Kianoush Ayari’s Taze Nafas-ha, the film contains rare footage of many interesting and pertinent subjects: public rallies of the Mojahedin (before the organization was banned and when Masoud Rajavi was alive); the beginnings of the IRGC forces (when women participated); Khamenei; Kurdish fighters; Baluchs in the borderlands, and the remnants of Shahr-e No in the immediate aftermath of its destruction.
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A young Kurdish political activist named “Rıfat” is wounded by the police and is taken home by his friends. His father nurses him with the hope he won’t die. Second short film of Emin Alper who is famous for his feature debut “Tepenin Ardı”.Read More »

From the collapse of the Soviet Union to Putin’s rule: how Russia became free and what it did with this freedom. The story of Boris Yeltsin and his times, told by his comrades, family, friends, and foes.

S1.E1 ∙ The Awakening

The young General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to reform the decrepit regime, inadvertently launching a chain reaction of events that the Soviet government quickly becomes unable to control. A new leader is born from the turmoil of perestroika: Boris Yeltsin becomes the spearhead of democratic forces, and Gorbachev soon begins perceiving him as a threat.Read More »

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The film is set around 1914 when Lebanon was under the Ottoman Empire rule. The empire enslaved men to work for free. Abdou goes to get Adla the engagement ring but he’s arrested with others and are taken to cut lumber. Meanwhile the Ottomans prevent the wheat from arriving to certain villages because they want to defuse the ongoing resistance operations led by Abou Ahmed. Adla travels to where some say Abdou is held prisoner and she meets with Abou Ahmed. She along other villagers start helping the resistance get the wheat to the people. When they accomplish their mission, Abou Ahmed, freed Abdou and others escape because now they’re wanted, but on a promise to return and to continue fighting.Read More »

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In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Chilean Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large concentration camps in the north of the country — Chacabuco and Pisagua — leaving with filmed sequences and sound recordings.

1974 Special Jury Prize, Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week
1974 Jury Prize, Grenoble International Documentary Film Festival
1974 Silver Sestertius, Nyon International Documentary Film FestivalRead More »

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Video-tape documentary program about the First Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting that took place in Bogotá in July 1981. The documentary includes interventions, interviews, photographs and other materials, focusing on the main themes of the meeting: feminism and political struggle, culture and sexuality.Read More »

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Martha, a peasant woman expecting a child, experiences the fears typical of a woman in her condition. Encouraged by a neighbor, she decides to venture out into the world and join the working class fighting for a better future.Read More »

“This film, actually several feature films combined into one, consists entirely of interviews with American POWs in North Vietnam. The Americans talk at great length about their lives, values, and Vietnam experiences, in consistently fascinating exchanges with the invisible interviewers. In the process, more is revealed than intended, on both sides. The American testimonies should be published in the West for light they throw on the new impersonal, ‘remote-control’ killers of our day: ‘honourable men’, all of them. But the East German revelation is equally fascinating; for the obscene but quite serious premise of this film, in their eyes, is that these were freely conducted interviews among equals.Read More »