Cinelogue Picks

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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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Astel by Ramata-Toulaye Sy
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.

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Alazar by Beza Hailu Lemma
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.

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Sirènes (Mermaids) by Sarah Malléon
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.

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Al-Sit by Suzannah Mirghani
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.

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Haiti: The Way to Freedom by Arnold Antonin
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.

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Arnold is a Model Student by Sorayos Prapapan
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.

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Bilal by Sourav Sarangi
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.

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Moddhikhane Char… (Char – The No-Mans Island) by Sourav Sarangi
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.

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ढोरपाटन /Dhorpatan (No Winter Holidays) by Rajan Kathet, Sunir Pandey
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.

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Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
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.

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Omar Amiralay: Sorrow, Time, Silence by Hala Alabdalla
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.

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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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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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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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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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