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17/8/2022

 



Cinema Novo (2016) 

93 min | Brazil | Portuguese with English subtitles 

Director: Eryk Rocha 


A film essay that offers a poetic investigation into the critically acclaimed Latin American film movement through the analysis of its main auteurs: Nelson Pereira do Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leon Hirszman, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Ruy Guerra, Caca Diegue, Walter Lima Jr. and Paulo Cesar Saraceni, among others.

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24/8/2022

 

Cinema Komunisto (2010)

101 min | Serbia, The Netherlands | Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles

Director: Mila Turajlić

A historical documentary that depicts the rise and fall of the famed Avala Film Studios—home to big-budget productions starring the likes of Richard Burton, Sophia Loren and Orson Welles.

Using rare excerpts from dozens of forgotten Yugoslav films, never-seen-before archive footage from film sets and revealing interviews with many of the film industry's key players, including Tito’s personal film projectionist, Cinema Komunisto recreates the narrative of a former country: the stories constructed for the screen and the ones hidden within the frame.

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31/8/2022

 

Handsworth Songs (1987)

59 min | UK | English

Director: John Akomfrah

 

A documentary film that examines the 1985 riots in London and Birmingham’s Handsworth district in reaction to the repressive policing of Black communities.

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