andA double bill of documentaries exploring the relationship between culture and politics will be screened Alborada Films this Thursday 19 January in East London. The evening will start at 6 p.m. with the UK premiere of “The people’s Train of culture” (El tren popular de la Cultura), Carolina Espinoza’s […]
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The Congolese salon d’exile in Rio de Janeiro
Using the motif of seven haircuts, a new film gives voice to Afro-Brazilian migrant stories and the similar inequalities in the two continents. The background is neo-colonialist exploitation by multinational companies, and privatizing Petrobras was also on that agenda. Like Europe, Brazil is racist, “but we don’t lock up refugees”. […]
A requiem in Amazonas and a new beginning
The indigenous struggle for land rights. A resistance movement that grows every year in protagonism and visibility. The final film in a trilogy documents this struggle and focuses on the personal relationship between an indigenous leader and a filmmaker which developed during the period of over 30 years that he has been working in Brazil.
Emir Hasanpor, a campaigner for women’s right in Iran
“Religion overcasts on Iran’s sky like an octopus and people are controlled like stitch dolls, if anybody speaks something athwart is condemned to execution and easily done so”, says this Iranian independent film maker. Shanta Sultana The melancholy director, a campaigner for women’s right and secular democracy in […]
Rua dos Anjos: Secrecy and self-revelation
Renata’s intention to make a documentary film in which she would learn about the experience of sex-work led to challenging situations. Advertising free sex in exchange for a photograph got no takers; in contrast Maria and Renata did accept the challenge of revealing personal issues in a film, and audiences […]
















