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Cannes film festivalNyoni uses unsettlingly playful surrealism in this account of a malign uncle and the family mythmaking that effaces his crimesRungano Nyoni is the Zambian-Welsh film-maker who in 2017 had an arthouse smash with her debut, the witt...
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2 weeks ago
Nezouh, a dreamlike story of a family under siege in Damascus, seeks to portray the difficult decision of all refugees as to whether to stay or leave the country they loveWhen Soudade Kaadan embarked on the journey to make a film about her war-torn h...
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And They Lived … Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabilities A deaf Snow White, a blind Cinderella, a neurodivergent ugly duckling and a wheelchair-using Rapunzel: classic European fairytales have...
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1 month ago
An image of South Sudanese graduates in 2018 forms part of a series about the lives, dreams and resilience of young AfricansIn September 2018, on a very hot day in Juba, South Sudan, a moment of resilience and hope presented itself. I was walking thr...
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After years of repression, a film about Bobi Wine’s heroic stand against Yoweri Museveni has given new life to the oppositionWhen the Ugandan musician turned politician Bobi Wine ran for president, his 2020 campaign was thwarted by violent crackdowns...