Through images, testimonies, press articles, music, demonstrations and traditions, the community of La Vega, an established neighbourhood of the capital, narrates the story of its progress, expansion and consolidation. The foundations for their consistent and self-managed organisation can be found in a deep sense of belonging marked by the manifestations of its indigenous, black and revolutionary roots.

Through the women, the video shows the struggle to attain a fair price for handmade products so that they can have a dignified life, give their children an education and continue with their resistance.

On Sunday October 18, 1970, the last day filming “Flower of the Arabian Nights” on location in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, Pasolini decides to use some leftover rolls of film to make a documentary about the city and thus persuade Unesco to intervene to protect the beauty of this world heritage. ”With every passing day, one part of the Sanaa walls falls to pieces... One of my dreams is to save Sanaa and other cities – their historic centres. I will strive for my dream and endeavour for Unesco to intervene”, says Pasolini.

A compilation of Columbian film heritage material relating to indigenous communities. Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano.Colección Acevedo (1932 -1948) , Marco Tulio Lizarazo (Guerrillero Guadalupe Salcedo, 1953).

“My grandmother was born in what is now Burkina Faso, as a result of an encounter between a French soldier and a young African woman. The discovery of the unique fate of the mixed-race minority to which she belongs, as they were separated from their mothers, abandoned by their fathers and finally confined in orphanages, returns me to my own mixed-race identity.” Available online until November 19th 2021.

This collaborative film, banned for more than a decade by French censors as an attack on French colonialism (and now available only in shortened form), is a deeply felt study of African art and the decline it underwent as a result of its contact with Western civilization. Marker's characteristically witty and thoughtful commentary is combined with images of a stark formal beauty in this passionate outcry against the fate of an art that was once integral to communal life but became debased as it fell victim to the demands of another culture.

In Italian Somalia in 1934, a powerful colonist is running a vast estate with many indigenous workers, helped by a young, energetic and well-liked overseer. Then the colonist's beautiful, innocent daughter who had remained in her home country arrives, eager to experience the romance of Africa, full of exotic animals and human beings with strange, delightfully primitive customs. The young people fall in love, but the landowner vehemently rejects what he sees as an inappropriate match. The young overseer leaves and finds consolation in the arms of a beautiful native woman, but the tribe and her husband strongly and tragically oppose this.

Jamaica – a tropical, beautiful land, rich in milk and... banana's, But, at best, a prime example of the impact of economic globalization on a developing country. This startling and award-winning feature-length documentary provides a shocking insight into a Jamaica that we don't normally see as a tourist, and guides us through the film as though we were a visitor to the country. It portrays a troubled nation, robbed of its natural resources and dependent like a small child on the West.