Movies: Colonialism

  • 2022
    Cactus/es lost in the streets

    Cactus/es lost in the streets (2022)

    Cactus/es lost in the streets

    02022HD

    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....

    Cactus/es lost in the streets
  • 2019
    Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki

    Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki (2019)

    Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki

    02019HD

    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...

    Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki
  • 2023
    The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii

    The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii (2023)

    The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii

    02023HD

    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...

    The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii
  • 2023
    CARA-B

    CARA-B (2023)

    CARA-B

    02023HD

    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...

    CARA-B
  • 2020
    A So-Called Archive

    A So-Called Archive (2020)

    A So-Called Archive

    02020HD

    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 ...

    A So-Called Archive
  • 2004
    White Ghosts

    White Ghosts (2004)

    White Ghosts

    82004HD

    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...

    White Ghosts
  • 2008
    Rif 1921, una historia olvidada

    Rif 1921, una historia olvidada (2008)

    Rif 1921, una historia olvidada

    8.52008HD

    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....

    Rif 1921, una historia olvidada
  • 1981
    The Battle of Tagrift

    The Battle of Tagrift (1981)

    The Battle of Tagrift

    01981HD

    An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies....

    The Battle of Tagrift
  • 1972
    Noua

    Noua (1972)

    Noua

    101972HD

    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....

    Noua
  • 1969
    Mini Poder '22

    Mini Poder '22 (1969)

    Mini Poder '22

    01969HD

    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....

    Mini Poder '22
  • 1969
    In the Shadow of the Serengeti

    In the Shadow of the Serengeti (1969)

    In the Shadow of the Serengeti

    01969HD

    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...

    In the Shadow of the Serengeti
  • 1969
    Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021

    Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021 (1969)

    Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021

    01969HD

    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...

    Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021
  • 1911
    A Fishing Party With the Maharajah of Kapurthala, India

    A Fishing Party With the Maharajah of Kapurthala, India (1911)

    A Fishing Party With the Maharajah of Kapurthala, India

    01911HD

    The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias....

    A Fishing Party With the Maharajah of Kapurthala, India
  • 1913
    Justice de fauve

    Justice de fauve (1913)

    Justice de fauve

    01913HD

    A wealthy painter's attempts to romance Lord Nelson's Daughter is complicated when she falls for his Hindu servant instead....

    Justice de fauve
  • 1988
    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben

    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben (1988)

    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben

    01988HD

    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...

    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben
  • 2019
    The Third World

    The Third World (2019)

    The Third World

    02019HD

    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...

    The Third World
  • 1951
    Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert

    Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert (1951)

    Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert

    01951HD

    Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo...

    Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert
  • 1982
    Land der Bitterkeit und des Stolzes

    Land der Bitterkeit und des Stolzes (1982)

    Land der Bitterkeit und des Stolzes

    01982HD

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    Land der Bitterkeit und des Stolzes
  • 1954
    I Will Speak English

    I Will Speak English (1954)

    I Will Speak English

    01954HD

    '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...

    I Will Speak English
  • 2020
    Miss

    Miss (2020)

    Miss

    62020HD

    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, ...

    Miss