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.
Senegal, France, 2021, 24m
In northern Senegal, the close bond between a 13-year-old girl and her father is irrevocably altered after an encounter in the desert.
Ethiopia, rance, Canada, 2024, 35m
In contemporary Ethiopia, a farmer's search for his father's missing body leads him to question faith, tradition, and the truths that bind his community.
Martinique, 2023, 16m
In northern Martinique, a widowed father struggles to protect his young daughter when her fascination with local mermaid legends begins to blur the boundaries between myth and reality.
Sudan, Qatar, 2020, 20m
A 15-year-old Sudanese girl confronts love, tradition, and an arranged marriage as she struggles to determine her own future.
Haiti, 1975, 2h
The first Haitian feature film traces Haiti's struggle for freedom from colonization to the Duvalier dictatorship through rare historical footage and political testimony.
Thailand, 2022, 1h 26m
A gifted student is drawn into an underground exam-cheating ring as his classmates rise up against their school's authoritarian rules.
India, Finland, 2008, 1h 28m
Three year-old Bilal lives with his parents, grandmother and younger brother in a small dark room in Calcutta, India.
India, Japan, 2012, 1h 26m
The film revolves around Rubel, a young boy who wants to attend school, but whose financial circumstances force him to become a smuggler from India to Bangladesh.
Nepal, South Korea, 2023, 1h 19m
Two lifelong rivals Ratima and Kalima have been appointed caretakers of their empty village. Now in the twilight of their lives, they must forget their past and help each other survive a long and harsh winter.
India, 2012, 2h 44m
A portrait of P.K. Nair, founder of the National Film Archive of India, whose lifelong devotion to cinema helped preserve India’s endangered film heritage.
Syria, France, 2021, 1h 49m
In a Syria torn apart by a tyrannical regime, Omar Amiralay devoted his life to his country and to cinema. Forty years of political commitment and documentary filmmaking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Switzerland / Germany, 2003, 26m
Visit Iraq is a short about the abandoned Iraqi Airways office in Geneva.