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Emails to My Little Sister
Directed by Solomon Mekonen
An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of the...
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Faces Voices
Directed by Christopher Thomas Allen, Paul Basu
The film complicates any simple reading of a colonial photographic archive from Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone that was collected between 1909 and 1915. Through a collaborative creative effort with...
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The Last of the Cuiva
Directed by Brian Moser
The film focuses on recent changes in the culture and society of the Cuiva, hunters and gatherers in a remote forest region of south-eastern Colombia, brought about through contact with...
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Namatjira Project
Directed by Sera Davies
An extraordinary first-hand account of the international battle to reclaim the artwork and heritage of one of Australia’s most important Indigenous figures: Albert Namatjira. Albert Namatjira was one of those...
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New York Just Another City
Directed by André Lopes, Joana Brandão
Brazilian Guarani filmmaker Patrícia Ferreira reflects on New York City and Indigenous representation in dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. This film is part of the collected DVD...
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Orania
Directed by Tobias Lindner
Orania is situated in South Africa’s barren Northern Cape province. All of its 800 inhabitants are white Afrikaners. They live here on private property which was bought in 1991. People...
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Palimpsest of the Africa Museum
Directed by Matthias De Groof
In 2013, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (Belgium) closed for renovation. It is not only the building and the museum cabinets that are in need of renewal:...
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Tabom in Bahia
Directed by Juan Diego Diaz, Nilton Pereira
There is a small community in Ghana who identify as Brazilians. Their name is the Tabom. They are the descendants of former enslaved Africans and creoles who resettled from Bahia...
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Treasured Moments
Directed by Ravi Hart Lloyd
This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he was from, his race. The black kid who...
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We Are Born to Survive
Directed by Paul Henley, Paul Okojie
A political biography of the activist Kath Locke, from Manchester’s Moss Side, based on an interview conducted by her political comrade Paul Okojie shortly before her death in 1992, aged...
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Where the Clouds End
Directed by Wanphrang Diengdoh
“My late great grandfather was a Bengali who came to Shillong in the early 1900s – long before the present political border divided the lands.” After the creation of borders...
RAI FILM Festival 2025
The next RAI FILM Festival will take place in person from 27-30 March 2025 at the Watershed Cinema and the Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol (UK) and online throughout the month of April 2025.
