SPAIN • 108′ a film by MARC RECHA While visiting his mother, Pau takes a phone call: his brother long disappeared, has committed suicide. Pau and his mother, who is unaware of what exactly happened, set out for the small Pyrenean village where Alex had lived before he took his own life. A journey down their[…]
CAMBODIA • 115′ a film by RITHY PANH August 1992. Savannah, 28 years old, finds himself back in Phnom Penh after four years on Cambodia’s northern front, fighting the Khmer Rouge. Like the rest of his generation, he’s known only war since infancy, camps, hunger and massacres. All he’s got left now is his uncle, Sôn,[…]
PERU • 88′ a film by NILO PEIRERA DEL MAR Jeremias, young shepherd of alpagas is enrol with force by terrorist group “Bright Path”. Threaten by the arrival of the army, he hides at Lima, country’s capital. Rapidly, he discovers the savagery of this huge city where he couldn’t escape at the terrible prediction of the village’s[…]
CONGO/BELGIUM • 116′ a movie by RAOUL PECK Patrice Lumumba, the hero of Congolese independence, was not yet 30 when the first tremors of botched decolonisation thrust him to the forefront of the international political area. After a course of a few years, Lumumba, became the most reviled man of this intense cold war period. Becoming[…]
FRANCE • 8′ a movie by JEAN PIERRE BEKOLO The great Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety (“Touki Bouki,” “Hyénes,” “Le Franc”), in evoking his first experiences in cinema, defines them as such: “It’s like a grandmother who knows how to tell stories… But the grand mother herself allows us to betray her… The grandmother wants us[…]
INDIA a movie by PANKAJ BUTALIA India was one of the first countries to the world to release itself in the XXth century of the colonial yoke. This liberation has provoked the partition and the birth of Pakistan, then in 1971, of Bangladesh. Almost a million people died and several millions were uprooted and had to[…]
FRANCE • 87′ a film by FERNANDO GUZZONI Santiago (Chile). Jesús (18) is in search of his identity. He dances with a Korean pop group and likes hanging out in public parks with his friends. He doesn’t go to school or have a job. Since his mother died he lives with his father, Hector (53), in[…]
FRANCE/ALGERIA • 98′ a film by MERZAK ALLOUACHE The country mouse, Alilo, arrives wide-eyed from Algiers to do a little business. The town mouse, his cousin Mok, French-born and Parisian to the core, is there to meet him. Alilo loses the address of the guy he is supposed to meet and they spend a frantic week[…]
SOUTH AFRICA • 89′ a film by RAMADAN SULEMAN Charterston Township 1990. Professor Zamani is respected in the township. To be sure, he once raped one of his students but the community turned a blind eye. Zamani used to rail against the apartheid system but those days are long gone. Now he teaches South African history[…]
ZIMBABWE • 87′ a film by INGRID SINCLAIR The story begins in a small village in Rhodesia (which will became Zimbabwe on April 18, 1980 after years of civil war), when the war is hotting up. The life of two teenage girls are changed when the father of one of them is detained by the Rhodesians.[…]