Women of Suriname (1978)

Josephine has all her life been told that her Peruvian aunt Augusta died in an armed struggle for the rights of the poor. As an adult Josefin decides to find out the truth about the legendary Augusta.

Cuenta la historia real de la proscrita y temida Phoolan Devi. Casada siendo una niña de 11 años, fue abusada y repudiada por su marido, y sufrió continuas vejaciones (por ejemplo por parte de policías cuando intentó escaparse) hasta que se unió a unos bandidos. Una de sus primeras acciones fue matar a su marido y exhibir su cadáver. Perseguida por la policía y acusada de diversos crímenes, se convirtió en una leyenda para las castas bajas y las mujeres y fue conocida como "La reina de los bandidos". Fue finalmente apresada y cuando salió de prisión se casó con un hombre adinerado y se dedicó a la política, llegando a ser diputada.

William Walker, un agente inglés, es enviado a Queimada, isla imaginaria del Caribe, para fomentar una revuelta contra los portugueses. Sin embargo, el objetivo de esta operación no es apoyar la independencia de los nativos, sino que Inglaterra sustituya a Portugal como potencia colonialista.

Corte Seco, Renato Tapajós' first fictional feature, takes place in 1969 and accompanies Rodrigo, a militant active in the fight against oppression and in favor of the removal of the military government. In this fight, everything was possible: invasion of radio studios to transmit a rebellious message; kidnapping of ambassadors promoted by groups, the so-called apparatuses; assault on banks to finance such activities.

Political activist Kader Affak—the unforgettable surveyor of Tariq Teguia’s film Inland—runs a charity on the same premises as Le Sous-Marin literary café that he is renovating. In powerful chiaroscuro, he tells Yanis Kheloufi about the final days of his mother, a constitutive episode that gave birth to his unshakeable faith in the Algerian people.

Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.

In France’s last presidential election, Marine Le Pen, a right-wing candidate, won over 30 per cent of the vote after an attempt to rebrand a party long associated with her controversial father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. See how three of her supporters faced similar obstacles in changing the narrative.

Makapili, was a militant group formed in the Philippines in December 8 1944 during World War II to give military aid to the Imperial Japanese Army. The group was meant to be on equal basis with the Japanese Army and its leaders were appointed with ranks that were equal to their Japanese counterparts.

Following the restoration of the forgotten Surinamese documentary Oema foe Sranan (1978) this film exposes stories of activism and struggle that enabled the production and distribution of this militant documentary.