Category: History
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Women Filmmakers Are Redefining African Cinema: Spotlight on Sanaa El Alaoui’s Aicha
Note: This feature contains mentions of rape and sexual violence. Across Africa, as in much of the world, female subjectivity has long been filtered through a male gaze rather than a woman’s own voice. For decades, women’s roles on screen were imagined, written, and directed mostly by men. Nigeria’s pioneering…
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall through a Cinematic Lens
As an epilogue to the 35th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall that was commemorated on November 9th, we remember the many lives – and films – this crucial cold war event affected and inspired. Though the topic of German reunification has also been widely discussed in British…
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