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‘POV’ Hears Zimbabwe’s Collective Cry for Democracy and Freedom In the Riveting Documentary "President"Monday, August 8, 2022POV, America’s longest running documentary series,
Paul Whitelaw takes a look at the week ahead on our small screens and recommends Ben Whishaw in This Is Going to Hurt, Imagine with Marion Keyes and some heart-warming Valentine's fun in First Dates.
A doc whose topicality feels like a double-edged sword. TWITTER The evidence of voting fraud during Zimbabwe’s 2018 election piles up in Camilla Nielsson’s documentary. The 2018 presidential elections in Zimbabwe, fought between former vice president Emmerson “the crocodile” Mnangagwa and the bright young opposition candidate Nelson Chamisa, were a dismal affair rife with election fraud, if you follow the persuasive arguments mounted by documaker Camilla Nielsson in President. Chamisa, a 40-year-old lawyer running on an anti-corruption, pro-employment platform, is obviously the peopl...
President – from 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Photo: c/o Sundance Institute. This is a a story about an enchanting young leader: an aging despot nicknamed ‘The Snake’; an inscrutable judge; Nelson Mandela’s ex-lawyer and a slain street vendor. It plays out against a backdrop of a restless population in a parched Zimbabwean summer. It’s billed as a documentary but is, in fact, a riveting thriller. President Robert Mugabe held sham elections every five years throughout his 38 year dictatorship. In 2017, he was ousted by his own party, the ZANU-PF. The new leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa, p...
'President' Review: Camilla Nielsson's Extraordinary Documentary Traces the Alleged Theft of an Election 'President' Review: Camilla Nielsson's Extraordinary Documentary Traces the Alleged Theft of an Election The Danish docmaker follows up 2014's 'Democrats' with another essential chapter in Zimbabwe's long, endlessly sidetracked road to democracy. Guy Lodge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Courtesy of EFP “Democrats,” Camilla Nielsson’s superb 2014 documentary about the tortuous construction of Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution, was most riveting as a snapshot of a country still trying...