Recreation is part of the day to day of war, especially when it is boys and girls who are there in the line of fire. A group of teenagers in the face of a military conflict. Santiago Zapata is the producer of this film, which has been selected as a […]
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A left turn against the financialization of housing
A documentary about evictions to make way for more profits from touristification. The Collective have produced many videos and documents about gentrification in Europe and Latin America. International investment funds continue to destroy local culture with government connivance in the EU. Graham Douglas October is the time for […]
Affonso Uchoa: the power of fiction to transform experience
He talks about his fears for Brazil under the extreme right-wing government of Bolsonaro, especially the abuse of minority groups. His film about the arrest and violent abuse of a young man by the Brazilian police is also an interesting experiment in combining documentary and fiction.
Yara Costa Pereira: Wear your heritage well, it’s what you are
Turbo-powered versions of Islam and Christianity are threatening the peaceful co-existence of religions in Mozambique. Centuries of migration, trade and colonial domination have produced unique multicultural societies. Her films are her way of negotiating her identity in uncertain times. Graham Douglas In her earlier work she developed the […]
Yara Costa: new religious colonialisms in Mozambique
Wahabi Islam and evangelical Christianity are both growing in this tolerant and multicultural country. Multinational companies are extracting wealth and security companies profiting from social conflict, because it is an opportunity for private security firms to move in. And Sharia utopia conflicts with the desire for consumer goods.
















