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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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L’Escale (The Stopover) by Collectif Faire-Part
DR Congo / Belgium, 2022, 14m

Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for the screening of their new film. During a layover in Angola, they're stopped at the airport because the airline doesn't trust their documents to be real.

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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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urdu +1
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Trans Kashmir by S.A. Hanan, Surbhi Dewan
India, 2022, 1h 2m

For generations, the transgender women of Kashmir have worked as matchmakers and performers but their gender, economic and socio-political realities make them some of the most vulnerable people in the world today.

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Uprize! by Sifiso Khanyile
South Africa, 2017, 58m

An exploration of the world that shaped the 1976 Soweto Student uprising.

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Blood Earth by Kush Badhwar
India, 2013, 35m

Kucheipadar, a Khonda tribal village in Odisha, India, is a bauxite-rich block that, since India’s economic liberalization, has been the subject of violent conflict between the indigenous Adivasi inhabitants and a mining venture.

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Khartoum Offside by Marwa Zein
Sudan / Norway / Denmark / France, 2019, 1h 15m

A group of young women in Khartoum are determined to play football professionally, resisting the imposed ban by Sudan’s military dictatorship. Through an intimate documentary portrait, we follow these women over a few years in their courageous struggle to officially establish Sudan's National Women's Football team.

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Caméra d’Afrique (Twenty Years of African Cinema) by Férid Boughedir
Tunisia, 1983, 1h 35m

In 1983, filmmaker Férid Boughedir took the initiative to look back on the past twenty years of African cinema through interviews with African filmmakers and actors, and excerpts from 18 films. A homage to the history of “postcolonial” African cinema.

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La Saison des Hommes (The Season of Men) by Moufida Tlatli
Tunisia, 2000, 2h 2m

As Aïcha (Rabia Ben Abdallah) and her two daughters return to the island of Djerba from Tunis, past and present start to juxtapose, and we observe how the family is at the core of the patriarchal systems. An essential feminist critique.

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