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In Cape Town, a city as breathtakingly beautiful as it is brutal, a young man leads a daring urban revolution at the intersection of political and property power. Doc Weekly writer Pheladi Sethusa had the chance to see the documentary Mother City by Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert in Johannesburg during a screening hosted by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation.
Doc Weekly is covering this year’s BFI London Film Festival with reviews and interviews of some of our favourite documentaries from the selection. As Noites Ainda Cheiram a Pólvora, or The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder, by Inadelso Cossa first premiered at this year’s Berlinale. Over 30 years after the end of the Mozambican civil war, Inadelso Cossa returns to his grandmother’s village to record untold stories of the conflict.
Today marks the start of the Barcelona 360° VR & AR Market’s fourth edition, running online until the 18th of December, a unique opportunity to discover an exciting new documentary format.
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.
For our latest Top Docs we’ve teamed up with French wildlife photographer Matthieu Courdesses to bring you 10 of the best wildlife documentaries ever made.
We’ve teamed up with the New York-based Black Documentary Collective (BDC) to bring you our latest Top Docs - ten of the best documentaries made by black directors, as voted by the members of the collective.
National Geographic, The Nobel Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel have collaborated on a five-part short documentary series, celebrating the ongoing impact and influence of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates around the world.
For episode 8 of What Are You Watching, Beatriz joined us from Brooklyn, New York in our latest Quarantine Edition.
“It’s bigger than the World Cup, it’s bigger than the Champions League… it’s the Epinetzo Africa Cup of Nations”. With the backing and support of one of France’s most successful rappers, Niska, and countless footballing superstars such as Didier Drogba, Karim Benzema, Paul Pogba, Riyad Mahrez and Benjamin Mendy, the tournament has exploded in popularity on social media and french news channels.
‘Who is William Onyeabor?’ - New York-based label Luaka Bop tried, and failed, to find this out in 2013 when they released an album of the same name which compiled the work of the mystery 70s and 80s Nigerian synthesizer musician.
This is a conflict that most in the West have chosen to ignore, even though it is the world’s bloodiest since WW2. Follow the inspiring and tragic paths of four people, as they navigate the complex landscape of Congo’s civil war.
In 2016, Mr Eazi quit selling phones in Lagos to dedicate himself to music. In 2018 he released his album 'Lagos to London', and with it, a documentary tracing his, and afrobeats' phenomenal rise to global stardom.
Football is a great unifier, but in Somalia, the 2010 World Cup wasn’t even broadcast.
How a Canadian hipster brought Ghanain artist Ata Kak to fame, over 20 years after releasing hi music.
At more than 430 miles long, the Mauritania Railway has been transporting iron ore across the blistering heat of the Sahara Desert since 1963.
Witness what happened when Nairobi’s most popular mall was overrun by Al Shabaab terrorists.
