Director: Gideon Breytenbach & Riku Lätti. Writer: Gideon Breytenbach & Jackie Lätti. Running time: 1hr 38 mins. The power, and limitations, of culture as a force for change are have long been debated by a left that has found its influence waning throughout the last century. Jack Benjamin / […]
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Searching for Shambhala (2023)
Director: Tian Yu Liu. Writer: Tian Yu Liu. Running time: 15 mins. After screening “Moerasdraak”– a found-footage film about a group of students who accidentally uncover an international conspiracy during a project on broadcast journalism – I spoke to director Ruben Swart. Jack Benjamin / Indy Film Library* One […]
“I was born here but I don’t feel at home anywhere”
Five young women talk about growing up in a very multicultural society yet feeling they don’t belong there nor in the country their parents came from. One of them directs a film in which they share intimate details of their feelings. The film becomes part of their process of adaptation to new identities.
Visions of Haiti
A celebration of this country repeatedly punished by its history will take place between October 18 and 31, exploring how artists and filmmakers have responded to the country’s culture, history and resistance over seven decades. This is a unique opportunity to learn about filmmaking, which once was not a priority […]
My name is Alfred Hitchcock
This is a 120-minute documentary that recreates Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces and, at the same time, invites us to discover lesser-known titles and his early works in silent films, such as Farmer’s Wife (1928), one of his favourites. Daimarelys Pérez The strong personality of the master of suspense and […]
















