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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Lean on Pete

    After intimate films about relationships, Weekend and 45 Years, Andrew Haigh takes a self-assured step to a larger canvas with this touching coming of
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  • For Nonna Anna

    A difference of generation, language and perceptions of womanhood are expressed poignantly in this moving story about two related characters.
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  • Illusions

    Grada Kilomba places the African oral tradition of storytelling in a contemporary context, recovering the memories and realities of a postcolonial wor
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  • Only Yesterday

    Margaret Sullavan is wonderful in her debut as a lively and idealistic single mother, whose adventures form a bridge between World War I and the…
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  • Exile

    Surprise: Bertold Brecht and Walter Benjamin have been reincarnated as an Iranian and an African-American and they roam today’s New York. At tim
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  • History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails

    A short film on the history of taming the left hand and on the culture of cultivating the bodies that do not fit. (AV-Arkki)
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  • Bruk Out! A Dancehall Queen Documentary

    This raw, energetic documentary follows six women, all of whom want to become the best Dancehall Queen in the world. It’s not just pop divas…
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  • Videoactive

    Bergman’s Persona is the subject of inquiry in a Los Angeles video store with a unique categorisation system. (FilmForm)
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  • Thirza Cuthand Is an Indian Within the Meaning of the Indian Act

    As a light-skinned indigenous woman, Cuthand reiterates that racism and discrimination still happen to her, just in different ways. (V-tape)
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  • Absent Wound

    Transforming public spaces women are prohibited from entering into a stage, Maryam Tafakory’s poetic film depicts the rituals involved in women
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