She Had a Dream (Raja Amari)
Bearing a title similar to that of MLK’s most famous speech,
She Had a Dream is an inspiring story about how a woman turned pain into power.
Tunisian filmmaker
Raja Amari, transitioning from narrative features to documentary, pays attention to the life of Ghofrane Binous, a 25-year-old activist who pursues her political aspiration by running for office during Tunisia’s 2019 national elections. All the odds are against Binous to succeed – Black, working-class, woman – something she realised so young when the kids at school would mock her for her skin colour. She hasn’t suffered discrimination in her own neighbourhood however she admits encountering casual prejudice by the privileged folks of Tunis. The sort of liberal racism that was highlighted in
Is there such a thing as a Syrian audience ? 23 December 2020
Syrian journalist and trainer, PhD candidate in media.
This is a conversation that took place in Amsterdam between Orwa Nyrabia co-founder of Dox Box, Proaction Film and No Nation Films, and current artistic director of the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) and Maya Abyad, a journalist, film director and colleague of Mr. Nyrabia. It is the most recent part of a longer discussion maturing between them over a longer period of time.
The conversation was edited for flow.
We’ve had discussions, with you and other cineastes and writers, about the new wave of Syrian cinema, in relation to revolution, exile, representation, censorship and production industry dynamics.
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A poetic portrait of a poignant political afterlife.
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Director Vitaly Mansky secures an intimate audience with the former Soviet premier whose democratic reforms helped end the Cold War.
A lyrical portrait of a former political giant in his twilight years, Vitaly Mansky s
Gorbachev. Heaven is an unusually intimate docu-memoir that feels like an epitaph. Thirty years after his
perestroika program of democratic reforms triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union, liberated Eastern Europe from Communist tyranny and effectively ended the Cold War, former Russian premier Mikhail Gorbachev is living in diminished circumstances with a bitterly contested legacy. His home is a palatial villa outside Moscow, part fortress, part mausoleum, which he only occupies on a temporary loan basis. There are echoes of Winston Churchill in his imposing presence nowadays, but overtones of King Lear, too: a deposed emperor, his powers fading.
Published December 16, 2020, 11:35 AM
The award-winning documentary film “Aswang” continues to win grand prizes abroad, taking home its fifth international award, this time at this year’s Festival Film Dokumenter in Indonesia.
The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) congratulated the film’s production team on Tuesday for winning the Best International Feature-Length Documentary at the 19
th Festival Film Dokumenter in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
(Film Festival Dokumenter website / MANILA BULLETIN)
Directed by Alyx Arumpac, “Aswang” is an in-depth documentary on the drug war that tackles the stories of victims from marginalized communities, exposing how their lives have changed during the current administration’s campaign against illegal drugs.