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North Korea Documentary recommendation list:

Propaganda Game (2015)

Interviews both pro and anti North Korea speakers. Covers topics such as reunification, propaganda, human rights.

Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang (2018)

Two defectors tell their unpopular side of the story and exposes CIA involvement in worsening the starvation in North Korea.

An African-American's Journal Inside North Korea (1994)

Title is self-explanatory. A group of African-American tourists go to North Korea and talk about their experiences there.

My Brothers and Sisters in the North (2016)

My favorite one of all. Wholesome, unbiased and beautiful landscape shots. Let's you think what you will. This film is about a South Korean woman who visits the North for the first time where the locals embrace her with open arms. She interviews people from various occupations and lifestyles to show what it's like.

#north korea #resources

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Today we challenge the orthodoxy of decolonizing the camera by shifting analysis away from how the colonizers use the apparatus to how indigenous people do.

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an angel on letterboxd just dropped a whole playlist of films free on youtube I was filled with so much love and light I had to share with you guys

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an angel on letterboxd just dropped a whole playlist of films free on youtube I was filled with so much love and light I had to share with you guys

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Blood of the Condor (Yawar Mallku), (1969), film poster. (director: Jorge Sanjinés)

"Ignacio (Marcelino Yanahuaya), the proud chief of a tribe of Quechua natives in remote Andean Bolivia, discovers that his wife cannot bear children. Like the other women of their village, she has been secretly sterilized against her will at an obstetric clinic operated by a purportedly beneficial aid group from the United States, with the covert help of the Bolivian government. Ignacio gathers the men of his tribe to exact revenge and bring justice to his people."

The story, which was based on accounts by indigenous people to Jorge Sanjines, provoked a public outcry which led to a government investigation about the Peace Corps' actions in Bolivia, ending in their expulsion from the country.

Part of an interesting albeit slightly flawed review on IMDB:

"... Molly Geidel, author of, "Peace Corps Fantasies: How Development Shaped the Global Sixties" found documents decades later clearly showing that the Bolivia Peace Corps director and volunteers with the agency, inserted IUDs in indigenous Aymara women at the time, despite not always having medical credentials and not being able to communicate well with the women.

So, it would seem that it wasn't the large-scale premeditated sterilization of a people that this film would have you believe (that is debatable), but none-the-less, an incredibly problematic policy practiced by the U.S. Peace Corps. It's not a long walk from nonconsensual contraception to accusations of population control. But the true story gets more complicated.

Long after this movie was released, a 2002 report by Peruvian Health Minister Fernando Carbone suggested that the president of neighboring Peru, all around asshole Alberto Fujimor, was involved in the forced sterilizations of up to 300,000 Quechua and Aymara women between 1996 and 2000 as part of a population control program called "Voluntary Surgical Contraception".

The United Nations and other international aid agencies supported this campaign, and yes, USAID provided funding and training for it. Whether these Western NGO's and Orgs were told that it was a voluntary family planning program (as the title suggested) or they knew it was a crime against humanity, I can't say.

The point is, the conspiracy theories this film uses to push its political agenda are based on either an eventual truth, or an ongoing truth that we simply don't have the full reportage of. So the movie's anger is prophetic or timely, but regardless, righteous."

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#the blood of the condor #yawar mallku #1969 #bolivia #jorge sanjines #ukamau collective #resources

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‘Sans retour possible’/‘No Return Possible’ (Armenia, 1983) film directed by Jacques Kèbadian and Serge Avedikian. The documentary follows the Armenian diaspora community in France, with focus on the memories of genocide survivors and the struggle for recognition.

#no return possible #armenia #1983 #jacques kebadian #serge avedikian

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Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)

#lakota nation vs. united states #2022 #united states #usa #film #jesse short bull #laura tomaselli

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An absolutely devastating loss. One of my favorite actresses. Her work in Bushmama and Daughters were reasons I went to Howard

#news #barbara o. jones

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tale of the three jewels dir. michel khleifi 1995

#tale of three jewels #michel khleifi #1995 #palestine

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Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)

#lakota nation vs. united states #2022 #jesse short bull #laura tomaselli

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Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)

#lakota nation vs. united states #2022 #jesse short bull #laura tomaselli #usa #united states

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it’s VERY strange how moonlight is one of the greatest films of our lifetime but also the film that gets the most responses when I bring it up that people haven’t seen it because they “know it’ll wreck me” as to opposed to understanding it as a BEAUTIFUL GIFT of a gay coming of age romance with a tender and forgiving ending! the reputation that has been cultivated around it as a difficult, traumatic movie is literally just racist. treating gorgeous and poignant art like an off-putting anthropology assignment is vile. just say you are scared of stories about poor black people.

#commentary #moonlight #barry jenkins #2016 #united states #usa

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In the midst of the euphoria over the Oppenheimer awards sweep, please never forget that it was executive produced by this genocidal Zionist cunt

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Hundreds of Jews and allies, including Writers Against the War on Gaza, sagaftramembersforceasefire and Film Workers for Palestine are present in the heart of Hollywood on the day of the Oscars to say: ALL EYES ON RAFAH!

While Hollywood celebrates, Israel prepares for the ground invasion of Rafah, where over 1.3 million Palestinians are seeking refuge. This comes as reports of extreme hunger continue to mount on the first day of Ramadan.

As filmworkers, Jews, and allies, we stand in solidarity with Palestinians. We won’t stop bearing witness. WHILE YOU’RE WATCHING, BOMBS ARE DROPPING" from Jewish Voice for Peace Los Angeles, 10/Mar/2024:

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ArteEast has an online program--Archives of Power--screening several Palestinian films for free from March 7-17 !

Archives, often perceived as impartial guardians of history, are actually deeply entwined with political agendas. In the context of the Palestinian struggle, archives have been systematically pillaged and obliterated by the Israeli state and military, resulting in the loss of invaluable records of Palestinian history and resistance. Among the missing archives are decades of footage by the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Palestine Film Unit (PFU). This collective of militant filmmakers emerged in the late 1960s, utilizing the camera as a tool of resistance to document the Palestinian experience and the struggle for liberation. The film program features documentaries about the Palestinian film archive and filmic legacy – Azza El-Hassan’s Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image (2004), Mohanad Yaqubi’s Off Frame (aka Revolution Until Victory) (2016)– as well as a selection of earlier films created during the revolutionary Palestinian film era, which have recently been restored as part of El-Hassan’s invaluable initiative, The Void Project, which was founded in 2018 to explore the presence and absence of the Palestinian visual archives as a discourse in narrative formation, and to restore and distribute some of the surviving films of the era. Archives of Power ultimately strives to amplify the voices and stories that have been marginalized and suppressed, reclaiming agency and autonomy in defiance of ongoing attempts to erase Palestinian history and visual narrative. This program serves as an indispensable platform for comprehending and challenging the mechanisms of oppression and resistance within the domain of archival representation.

#resources #palestine