Author: abinka
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This Jungo Life
Categories: 2024“This Jungo Life” takes us deep inside the hidden lives of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan, living and sleeping rough on the streets of Morocco; forced to flee violence and instability in Libya, and unable to return home due to ongoing war and conflict. Produced in collaboration with the refugees…
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The Fishing Boats of Kayar
Categories: 2024After 15 years in Spain, Thimbo returns to his Senegalese fishing village, where he is overwhelmed by sensations of nostalgia and uprooting, yearning and resentment. He also grapples with the influence he exerts on the local youth, who see him as a role model and seek to emulate him through a perilous journey to Europe…
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From Where We Stand
Categories: 2024With a direct and spontaneous approach, Filmmaker Lucy Kaye creates intimate portraits of diverseindividuals in three Northern English towns. Through the stories of people connected by place, thefilm explores our relationship with where we’ve come from, what we’ve left behind and where welive. Amongst the people we meet are Bini, a former asylum seeker trying…
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Such Madwomen!
Categories: 2024The documentary depicts the lives of three women in a village in Uttar Pradesh, India. In a patriarchal society, it’s uncommon for women to sit outside or take a leisurely walk. This film follows Geeta, Usha, and Lucy, who are housewives. They spend their days working and eagerly await the evening, when they can go…
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Agata’s Faces
Categories: 2024The film begins when it seems that Agata’s illness, her companion for almost twenty years, is finally a thing of the past. The protagonist undergoes final surgeries and hopes to “start a new life” soon. She lives and works in London, her artistic career begins to develop, and love appears in her personal life. Unfortunately,…
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They Said She Was a Witch
Categories: 2024Women who now live in the Pyrenees, in places where the most fervent witch-hunting once took place, now talk about the reality of femicide from between the 15th and 18th centuries. They invite us to delve into their own lives and themselves share their fears: new or even rooted in history. Judith Prat Molet After…
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Daughters of Coal
Categories: 2024Oliwia, a young woman in her twenties, ventures into a journey through her personal hell. Upholding her family’s deep-rooted mining traditions and encouraged by her mother, she takes a job at a sorting plant affiliated with one of the Silesian coal mines. There, she supervises machinery, sorts industrial waste by hand, and cleans coal dust.…
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Where Can I Get Lost?
Categories: 2024“When you get lost,” says Rebecca Solnit, “you find yourself in a world that is larger than the one you knew.” For some, this is a nightmare. For others, it is a promise. This film, shot in Bahia (Brazil), reflects on different modes of getting lost: in the wilderness, in madness, in the ecstasies of…