From the compilation "bwana matali", this chapter "to domain in order to serve" is focused in the advent of the colonial power into the tribal net of Congo, as well as in the development of its "colonial utopia" contrasted with the reality of a economical domination, in which this utopia is shown as a simple excuse for the complete exploitation of the natural and human resources, and the its "decorative" humanism is always blocked by the sectarian interests of the white minority elite.
UntitledBoujad is a personal and anguishing look at issues of separaton, independence and return. As director Hakim Belabbes chronicles his journey from his home in Chicago to visit his family in his hometown of Boujad in Morocco, his exploration of family relationships is self-conscious and at times painfully honest. We witness his most private moments with his family. Belabbes' film intimately explores the domestic spaces and religious rituals of intra-family relationships, especially when compounded by one member's break with traditional values.
UntitledEvery year, trafficking of human beings for the sex trade puts hundreds of thousands of women throughout the world at risk of losing their freedom, suffering physical and emotional harm, working in degrading and sometimes life-threatening situations, and being cheated of their earnings. Most of these women had travelled abroad to find better jobs or to see the world, never imagining that they would enter such a hellish world of crime and servitude.
UntitledShort film about the death of art and counter-revolutionary nature of creative feeling. Shot in Super 8.
A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas. Mixing commentary, computer graphics, dramatisations, and investigative journalism, "BORDERS" probes the unsettling paradoxes behind immigration, drugs, Star Wars, and other topics.
The exchange of knowledge and experiences, which contemplates transformation, is increasingly more necessary and urgent. In order to deeply transform the notions that have shaped the globalized world; making a radical revision of the notions of time, work, culture, and the persistence of a single model with its totalitarian drift.
Inner Experience. Myself: you two.