Runa Simi takes place in Cusco, Peru, and follows a local man, Fernando Valencia, on his quest to dub The Lion King into Quechua, the largest pre-Colombian language in Latin America.
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Runa Simi takes place in Cusco, Peru, and follows a local man, Fernando Valencia, on his quest to dub The Lion King into Quechua, the largest pre-Colombian language in Latin America.
Gone is the once ambivalent torpor of the Irish folk music scene. Útóipe Cheilteach (Celtic Utopia) by Dennis Harvey and Lars Lovén tells the story of a new generation of artists bringing it back to its cynical, political and countercultural roots. Discover an exclusive teaser of the film on the day of its World Premiere at Locarno Film Festival 2025.
Few ways of making film today offer richer ground for artistic expression, political thought and social critique than decolonial cinema. Here are 13 documentaries that deconstruct colonial narratives, featuring in this year’s edition of the Decolonial Film Festival, of which Doc Weekly is a proud media partner.
The Paris-based Decolonial Film Festival will be opening its 2025 edition with an avant-premiere of the Oscar-nominated Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez. Doc Weekly is excited to be the Decolonial Film Festival’s official media partner, boasting a programming committee made up of fifteen anti-racist, diasporic, queer and feminist organisations.
‘They want our ideas, they just don’t want us’. Follow sociologist Patricia Kingori, the youngest black and female professor at the University of Oxford, as she takes us through the bought essay industry, which involves an estimated 40,000 Kenyans writing academic papers for students in the global north.
African Apocalypse is a harrowing journey through the colonial past and its inevitable hangover in present-day Niger, West Africa. Femi Nylander traces the steps of a little known French captain, Paul Voulet, who unleashed wanton terror on several communities along the Niger-Nigeria border, leaving a trail of dead bodies in the wake of his unclear quest.
