Following Nigeria's independence in 1960, the British left the country but multinationals began to proliferate thought the land, specially after the discovery of the region's largest oil well. Agriculture, which had previously given the country a degree of economic equilibrium, was hurt by the agreement between Nigeria's new leaders and foreign investors, which resulted in the expansion of the oil fiends and the destruction of agricultural land. The documentary reflects this situation through the musician and political activist Fela Kuti and his son Fema Kuti. Music is depicted as the awakening of a conscience, as a celebration of life and African roots, and as an indictment of a government that acts as a franchise of western multinationals.
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Documenting the steadfast movement against intellectual property, Part 1 of Steal This Film takes account of the prominent players in the Swedish piracy (copyright infringement) culture: The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån (Piracy Bureau), and The Pirate Party. It includes a critical analysis of the legal action taken by the Hollywood film industry to leverage economic sanctions by the United States government on Sweden through the WTO, in order to pressure Swedish police into conducting an illegal search and seizure for the purpose of disrupting a competitive distribution channel: The Pirate Bay tracker for P2P Internet file sharing with the BitTorrent protocol.
UntitledThis film explores the lives of a refugee community, the Saharawis, whose land was stolen and they were condemned to live in a forgotten corner of the Sahara desert. The human face of this long struggle for independence is shown through a child called Hussein and his family.
UntitledA thorough and sensitive portrait of the working connections and correlations of the actions of Bourdieu. The film shows Bourdieu at work, engaged in the kind of work that played a central role for him: on the interface with concrete action.
UntitledSerpent Mother is about devotion to the Goddess of Snakes and the importance of divine female power in West Bengal Indian life. The film's focus is the Jhapan Festival, the great celebration of snakes. It shows the festival preparations, the role of traditional arts and crafts in the worship of the Goddess, devotional singing, and a demonstration of ritual action.
UntitledA documentary put together from an anonymous collection of 16mm home movies showing safaris in Central Africa filmed between 1957 and 1963. The footage, which was later edited and had a sound track added, shows a group of friends, lovers of small game hunting, meticulously filmed by a cameraman: a safari in French Equatorial Africa (Chad), footage of “kills” in Cameroon, Angola, Mozambique and other African countries, that have the impact of a colonial-touristic expedition.
UntitledApril 26th, 2007: sixteen researchers and activists give sixteen scathing views of the world that Nicolas Sarkozy is preparing for us. The reality of the right, full of self-confidence on the threshold of assuming power. An uncompromising deconstruction of Sarkozy-style rhetoric, which seems likely to remain relevant for some years.
In 2005, due to historical debts that the Columbian government had failed to honor, the Cauca indigenous movement was forced to return to its strategy of occupying Haciendas. In the occupation of the Hacienda El Japio, an indigenous man was murdered and many others were tortured by the forces sent by the government of Alvaro Uribe Velez.
UntitledLike many refugee children in the camps of Algeria, Zrug left home when he was only eight years old in search of education in Cuba. After 16 years, he returned home only to find that his mother died six years earlier, but he still decided to stay on and actively participate in the fight for the liberation of his people.
Untitled"I traveled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn't a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere. On my way, I met men and women who shared their perception of this quest and in doing so, in a roundabout way they shared some of their visions of the world and existence. For some, my tree was the sign from the spirits, of the invisible or a call from light. For others, it was the symbol of a history, a culture or the end of a period in time. For yet others, it was a tree that you see only when you get lost".
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