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Festivals

Why Sarah Maldoror remains one of cinema’s greatest revolutionaries

by Pamela Hutchinson

The late film­mak­er and poet was a pio­neer of anti-colo­nial cin­e­ma, whose cry for free­dom still res­onates today.
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Festivals

A new animated short explores sexual envy from a female perspective

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Hun­gar­i­an ani­ma­tor Nad­ja Andra­sev reveals how per­son­al expe­ri­ence informed her sen­su­al new film Symbiosis.
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Festivals

The best new music documentaries to look out for this year

by Patrick Gamble

Films about Bet­ty Davis, Ryuichi Sakamo­to and Mil­ford Graves were among the high­lights of the 15th edi­tion of IndieLisboa.
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Festivals

How the films of Jem Cohen reveal the true meaning of independent cinema

by Patrick Gamble

A recent ret­ro­spec­tive at the IndieLis­boa Film Fes­ti­val high­light­ed the need for social­ly-con­scious filmmaking.
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IndieLisboa

The five best films from IndieLisboa 2016

by Josh Slater-Williams

From the sto­ry of an eas­i­ly seduced movie sub-titler to an inno­v­a­tive study of exhum­ing the dead through acting.
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Festivals

A brilliant film about pregnancy plays at IndieLisboa

by Josh Slater-Williams

Olmo and the Seag­ull deserves its com­par­i­son to Rosemary’s Baby, despite being a very dif­fer­ent beast.