Movies: Colonialism
- 2022
Cactus/es lost in the streets (2022)
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When a northeastern brazilian worker, Filismino, is forced to move to the big southeastern metropolis of São Paulo, the northeastern grim reaper is forced to go there and kill him....
- 2019
Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki (2019)
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In between growing frustrations toward cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists and reflections on a traumatizing memory, a voice rises from within a soft-spoken Hawaiian janitor down on the sidewalk in Waikiki. This narrative short film is in...
- 2023
The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii (2023)
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This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide landscape the film focuses on the destruction of the Jewish Muslim world that existed in North Africa...
- 2023
CARA-B (2023)
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A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power of scientific discourse to produce revisions of the world, the evolution of the concept of the archive...
- 2020
A So-Called Archive (2020)
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With a forensic lens, Onyeka Igwe's A So-Called Archive interrogate the decomposing repositories of Empire. Blending footage shot over the past year in two separate colonial archive buildings - one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, United ...
- 2004
White Ghosts (2004)
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This documentary questions the consequences of the German colonial war at the beginning of the 20th Century in South West Africa, and explores how the relationships between the descendants of colonists and colonial rulers and the descendants of the c...
- 2008
Rif 1921, una historia olvidada (2008)
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Manuel Horrillo has visited for 7 years the fields where the clashes between the Spanish troops and the rebels of the protectorate took place during the so-called Rif War, a forgotten war of the Spanish collective imaginary....
- 1981
The Battle of Tagrift (1981)
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An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies....
- 1972
Noua (1972)
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In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colonial administrators and Algerian landowners. Noua, in love with the son of a peasant dispossessed of his land, must be sold to a wealthy landowner....
- 1969
Mini Poder '22 (1969)
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Chileans are asked about their definition of the word (and the concept of) "power", as they answer images flash on the screen of powerful and powerless figures in Chilean history....
- 1969
In the Shadow of the Serengeti (1969)
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A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanzania. On the outskirts of Serengeti National Park in East Africa, Maasai face eviction from their land to make way for international tourism and hunt...
- 1969
Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021 (1969)
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Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time, ancestry, body and death that intertwine possible paths of transcendence for this state of collective numbne...
- 1911
A Fishing Party With the Maharajah of Kapurthala, India (1911)
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The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias....
- 1913
Justice de fauve (1913)
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A wealthy painter's attempts to romance Lord Nelson's Daughter is complicated when she falls for his Hindu servant instead....
- 1988
Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben (1988)
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Else, a half-breed child from the secretive harem of the German colonial elite, is the daughter of the governor's deputy Jesko von Puttkammer, who disappeared to faraway Germany. Else became an old woman who had suffered all her life from remaining f...
- 2019
The Third World (2019)
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For nine months in 1930, seven Bretons, lobster fishermen, were "forgotten" on a volcanic island by their employers, Normans from Le Havre, heirs of the last French whalers. Four employees would die on the spot. Their descendants today revive the mem...
- 1951
Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert (1951)
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Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo...
- 1982
Land der Bitterkeit und des Stolzes (1982)
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- 1954
I Will Speak English (1954)
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'An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to illiterate adult audiences in the Gold Coast. (..) This is a film with an almost entirely African cast, depicting an African...
- 2020
Miss (2020)
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There is a wrecked car in the Algerian desert. The girl gets in and drives. Apart from sand, there is nothing to see for miles. Searching for a change of scenery, she visits the elderly in her village and the nearby oasis. However, whether shepherd, ...