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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisWhat African feminist movements are up against in 2023
Emboldened by the overturning of Roe v Wade, Western conservative movements are dialling up their Africa campaigns
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHamid Dabashi: Europe’s coloniality persists after the fall of empire
A conversation with Hamid Dabashi about writing, Europe’s past and present, the far right, and revolutions.
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Published in: HomeIboga Nights: the last chance saloon
Only one conclusion from this film: iboga should obviously be made safe and available to those who are undergoing...
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Published in: HomeAvi Mograbi making sure we don’t see something that isn’t there
The motivation becomes artistic. You want to tell a story like a good storyteller and then you become political...
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Published in: oDRFive stories from Ukraine
'Open Access', a new revealing documentary from Ukraine, will have its UK premiere on 21 June 2014 as part of the...
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Published in: HomeSepideh – a stunning constellation
As a character Sepideh knows what she wants. She does not care for the manacles of custom or anything that may...
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Published in: HomeDignity and humanity in the face of suffering
Director Boris Gerrets demonstrates that dignity and humanity can exist even in the most seemingly undignified and...
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Published in: HomeDon't miss Stream of Love
After a while, we begin to feel that the stream of love embraces many people in this community - there is so much...
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Published in: HomeIdiosyncratic modernisation
The images in Manakamana combine to create a fascinating story about tradition in transit, and the necessity of...
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Published in: HomeAvi Mograbi and conflict
He makes films about his people, his history, his politics and so ultimately he is making a film about himself. Film review.
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Published in: HomeIranian love of cinema
Film can illuminate what it is to be a misfit in society, with all the anxieties that this position entails. Is it a...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s invisible youth
A new documentary from Russia will have its UK premiere at the closing gala of Open City Docs in London (17-22 June 2014).
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Published in: openIndiaThe oldest auction house in India
This is no longer a stream of precious collectibles: it’s mainly junk. But the brothers are still determined to...
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Published in: HomeScrap heap, scrap yard
Most of us share hard work, family and the hope of an easier future. Most of us want love, companionship and to be...
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Published in: HomeBosnia: the “lost generation”
The international media can cast an unflinching spotlight on wars but when the war is over the spotlight is suddenly...
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Published in: HomeMaking it flow, somehow
This is not a film about the Egyptian revolution. This is a film about Cairo - and traffic. Film review.
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Published in: Home"It's going to blow up one day"
Marc Bauder's Master of the Universe runs like a sociological narrative of high finance as experienced by one man,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Judgment in Hungary
In 2008 and 2009, a group of Hungarian right-wing extremists committed a series of vicious attacks on members of the...