My Friend Fela provides a new perspective on the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, to counter the « eccentric African pop idol of the ghetto” vision people have, according to director Joel Zito Araújo.
Fela’s complex existence is told through the eyes and conversations with close friend and official biographer, African-Cuban Carlos Moore.
As the documentary unfolds, it reveals the many influences and forces that shaped Fela’s extraordinary life: from the relationship with his mother to his many and problematic relationships with women, from his ties with his spiritual advisor Professor Hindu to his mutually influential encounters with...
Coffret contenant 3 films du réalisateur Alexandre Rockwell. 3 perles du cinéma indépendant américain en noir et blanc.
Sweet Thing (2020, 1h31) : New Bedford, Massachusetts. Billie, jeune adolescente, et son petit frère Nico luttent pour trouver leur place dans une famille dysfonctionnelle. Partagés entre un père alcoolique mais aimant et une mère trop souvent absente, leur vie oscille entre malaises et incompréhensions. Lors d’un été mouvementé, ils rencontrent Malik, jeune garçon en quête d’ailleurs, et décident de fuguer avec lui.
In The Soup (1992, 1h33) : Un auteur au chômage vend son scénario ...
Filmed entirely in Rwanda with local actors, Munyurangabo is the first narrative feature film in the Kinyarwanda language. After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend Sangwa leave the city to return to their village. The former seeks justice for his parents, who were killed in the Rwandan genocide, while the latter just wants to go home. Although the boys had planned to stay only a few hours, they end up spending several days.
From opposing ethnicities, they are tested when old-timers warn, “Hutus and Tutsis should not be friends.”
This intense and inspiring portrait of youth in Rwanda premi...
Offend one… And you offend them all. Code of the Freaks presents a radical reframing of the use of disabled characters in film. Using hundreds of clips spanning over 100 years of moviemaking and a cast of disabled artists, scholars and activists, it’s a scorching critique of some of Hollywood’s most beloved characters: Of Mice and Men, Million Dollar Baby, Forrest Gump, Avatar...
This revelatory documentary investigates the power of movie imagery to shape the beliefs and behaviors of the general public toward disabled people and of disabled people toward themselves. It dares to imagine a cinematic landscape that takes disabled people se...
Escaping from his criminal baptism, Reynaldo Galíndez lands in the patio of the house inhabited by Carlos Vargas, a retired security guard. Vargas proposes a deal: the young boy will repair the damage caused to his home when falling in return for not being handed over to the police. The lessons given to the teenager by the old guard will give rise to a relationship not unlike the old legends of educating a king. The agreement will start to fall apart when the loose ends of the robbery Reynaldo had participated in start wrapping themselves round them.
=> Spanish original version, with optional English and French subtitles
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