Movies: Independence

Anna, Pina, Teresa reinterprets the pivotal scene in Rossellini’s “Roma Città Aperta” where Anna Magnani, who plays the character Pina, (based on the story of Teresa Gullace,) is murdered on the streets of Rome by the Fascist police. This scene is ch...

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Brown sauce spills onto the plate and table in Wolfram Kohler's collage-like exploration of politics in South Tyrol during the explosive and nationalist commemoration year of 1984....

The film is about a young man who was born on the day when Kazakhstan gained its long-awaited independence. The guy's memories start from childhood. The events in his personal life are closely intertwined with what the whole country was going through...

Barandilla and Pizarrón, two newly independent friends, must face their first big challenge: doing laundry. What begins as a simple task turns into a surreal experience that teaches them more than they expected....

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Against the backdrop of historical events, from the time of Kyivan Rus' until the arrival of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Ukraine, the film deals with the history of the construction, flourishing, destruction and revival of the Mykhailivsk...

This film is the product of a seven-year research journey on the popular insurrection of December 1960 in Algeria and the failure of the counter-insurrection, thanks to the Wretched of the Earth themselves....

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Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India....

An aimless office worker's life is permanently changed when he encounters a mystical homeless man....

Independence Day celebrations in Ghana, including ceremonies and pageants and the opening of the Ghana Parliament by the Duchess of Kent. The commentary makes a strong plea for racial tolerance, as well as mentioning the possibility of united all-bla...

Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the British approach. But history books don't tell of the man who sent Revere on his mission: Joseph Warren, America's least remembered founding father. U...

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The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulation of the representations of Algeria throughout the history of visual arts in France in an effort to explore the causes for the quest for independence....

The film "ATATTOR" evolves around Mahesh, a man burdened by guilt and internal conflict as he tries to escape the shadows of his past. His journey takes place, just one day before mahalaya (দেবীপক্ষের সূচনা) where external chaos mirrors his inner tur...

Recent events cause a young couple to reflect on the problems they have faced in the past few months. Created during the 2020 lockdown, ‘A Homemade Film’ is a homemade feature film with a two person cast and crew....

A documentary about the wider "Yes" movement, filmed throughout 2014 in the run up to the historic referendum on Scottish independence. Largely ignored by the media, this film has become something of a cult favourite amongst those in favour of an ind...