Overview of articles
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Hill of Pleasures
After decades of lawlessness, order seems to have returned to the Hill of Pleasures, a favela close to Rio’s centre, a Pacifying Police Unit (UPP)…Published on: -
Zanj Revolution
In the 9th century in what is now Iraq, black slaves known as Zanj rebelled against the Abbasid Caliphate. Algerian journalist Ibn Battuta hears of…Published on: -
Of Good Report
Parker Sithole served as a UN soldier in the Congo, is very proud of his teaching diploma and with his wise, peaceful demeanour somewhat resembles…Published on: -
The Liar’s Dice
After her remarkable short film Are You Listening? (premiered in Rotterdam in 2010), Geetu Mohan Das, an established actress since childhood, makes her feature debut…Published on: -
Kamera obskura
The film opens with three real-life Filipino film archivists, who call a press conference to announce that an old film has been discovered in a…Published on: -
Darkness by Day
Martín Desalvo (Kept and Dreamless, Tiger Awards Competition 2005) is finally back in Rotterdam with his latest – breathtaking and unsettling – work.Virginia and her…Published on: -
Longing for the Rain
In today’s China, the middle classes provide a supreme example of materialism, emptiness and yearning. The nouveau riche seem seem united only in their unstoppable…Published on: -
Starred Up
‘Starred Up’ is the controversial British measure of transferring extreme delinquents to adult prisons before they turn 21. 19-year-old Eric (Jack O’Connell) is one such…Published on: -
Beyond Clueless
This first attempt at charting the undervalued genre of the teen film presents itself as a somewhat overzealous school assignment, with an utterly serious monologue…Published on: -
Atlantic.
Young Moroccan fisherman Fettah feels lost between two worlds; his poor yet familiar village on the Atlantic coast and the exciting world of the rich…Published on: