Cinelogue Picks

program description

Cinelogue Picks brings together a curated mix of  films that extend the conversations within Cinelogue’s programs.

Many of these films trace how colonial legacies persist through state violence, class hierarchies, and gendered exclusions, while others gesture toward different forms of solidarity and imagination.

In addition to these curatorial choices, certain titles appear here at the invitation of filmmakers who wished to share their work through Cinelogue.

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An Owl, A Garden And The Writer by Sara Dolatabadi
France / Iran, 2023, 1h 23m

In 2016, Sara began documenting her visits to her family’s garden outside of Tehran. Here, she spends her days with her father, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, one of the most prolific contemporary Iranian novelists.

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persian +1
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Landscape Suspended by Naghmeh Abbasi
Iran, Canada, 2022, 27m

Through an interrogation of the landscape of Iran’s Shaho Mountain, Landscape Suspended reflects on the sociopolitical history and violence that surround the people who reside in the region.

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Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) by Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré
France / Germany, 2022, 2h 2m

Using rare cinematic, photographic, and sound archives, Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) recounts the exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative created in Mali in 1977 by western African immigrant workers living in workers’ residences in France.

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arabic
english +1
نيركوك (Nyerkuk) by Mohamed Kordofani
Sudan, 2016, 19m

After having lost his father in an air raid Adam, a ten-year-old boy, is forced to flee to the capital city, Khartoum.

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A Bedouin Day by Nabil Maleh
Syria, 1981, 49m

A Bedouin Day captures an intimate look into the daily life of the Bedouin, a way of living often misunderstood and mistakenly blended into a single image of Arab society.

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spanish +1
english +1
Lo que los humanos ven como sangre, los jaguares ven como chicha (What Humans See as Blood Jaguars See as Chicha) by Luciana Decker Orozco
Bolivia, 2023, 29m

An experimental ethnographic study of a region in the artist’s native Bolivia that was once the centre of the Tiwanaku civilization.

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arabic +2
english
Slingshot Hip Hop by Jacqueline Reem Salloum
Palestine, 2008, 1h 23m

Slingshot Hip Hop documents the emergence and evolution of Palestinian Hip Hop, weaving together the narratives of resilient young artists navigating life in Gaza, the West Bank, and Palestine 48.

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arabic +2
english
Nasser by Jihan El Tahri
France / South Africa, 2015, 1h 37m

Beginning in 1952, with the resistance against the British Occupation, the film follows the rise to power of Egypt’s iconic leader Gamal Abdul Nasser.

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Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali (Tobacco Embers) by Yugantar
India, 1982, 25m

Tambaku Chaakila Oob Aali traces the history and strike actions of the all women trade union of over 3000 tobacco workers in Nipani (Karnataka). It was made in collaboration with female tobacco factory workers.

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Molkarin (Maid Servant) by Yugantar
India, 1981, 25m

Molkarin exposes the oppressive working conditions of thousands of domestic workers in Pune. Through re-enactments of significant moments of the original process of unionising, the film narrates the coming together of women workers and union activists to form the Pune Shahar Molkarin Sanghatana (Pune City Domestic Workers Union) to fight for their rights.

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english +1
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Tigress by Maya Bastian
Canada, 2021, 13m

When a young Tamil-Canadian woman comes face to face with another version of herself as a paramilitary fighter for the Tamil Tigers -- her sense of western privilege collides with the reality of her ancestors.

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siraiki
english
Lok Sath (People’s Tribunal) by Ali Nobil Ahmad
Pakistan / Germany, 2018, 20m

The true story of a rural community's resistance to the building of a coal power plant in Pakistani Punjab, Lok Sath is an experimental short featuring stills, video footage, abstract art and exquisite animations by Iranian artist and filmmaker Neda Ahmadi.

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bhojpuri +1
english
বাগানিয়া / Baganiya (Garden of Memories) by Humaira Bilkis
Bangladesh, 2019, 56m

The story is about the mundane life of a tea community, where the old chief Padmoluv awaits his death and often reminisces about the past controlled by the colonial masters.

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english +2
english
What The Soil Remembers by José Cardoso
Ecuador / South Africa, 2023, 29m

What the Soil Remembers examines the trauma of a community uprooted during the Apartheid regime, making way for an educational institution that would become synonymous with the foundation of white supremacist ideologies.

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arabic
english
بين موتين / Bayna Mawtayn (Between Two Deaths) by Ameer Fakher Eldin
Occupied Golan Heights / Syria / Palestine, 2015, 21m

Between Two Deaths tells the story of a peasant couple from Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights as they navigate their lives amidst ongoing conflict.

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english +4
Soundless Dance by Pradeepan Raveendran
France, Sri Lanka, 2019, 1h 29m

2009, the de-facto state of Tamil Eelam is in chaos. The war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), fighting for an independent Tamil state, and the Sinhalese state army has ravaged the island for almost thirty years.

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spanish
english
Al Otro Lado de La Niebla (Behind the Mist) by Sebastián Cordero
Ecuador, 2023, 1h 30m

Iván Vallejo, the first Ecuadorian to summit Mount Everest, wants to make a film which will commemorate his trajectory. He invites Sebastián Cordero to the project, an Ecuadorian filmmaker who premiered his first film in Venice the same year that Iván achieved his feat.

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You Hide Me by Nii Kwate Owoo
Ghana, 1970, 17m

Made 50 years ago, the film reveals for the first time hundreds of thousands of previously unseen rare Asante art treasures stolen by the British.

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indonesian
english
Segudang Wajah Para Penantang Masa Depan (The Myriad Faces Of The Future Challengers) by I Gde Mika & Yuki Aditya
Indonesia, 2022, 1h 31m

Emboldened by the 1966 Order of Eleventh March that handed him unrestricted power to restore control after the military coup attempt on October 1st 1965, General Suharto made himself de-facto leader of Indonesia, which he – soon officially installed as President – would remain until 1998.

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