With Your Life in the Balance. Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nonhle Mbuthuma and Bergdis Joelsdottir
«Every time we say it can’t get any worse it does,» writer Tsitsi Dangarembga has said about the situation in her home country Zimbabwe.The UNs special envoy has reacted to the arbitrary arrests of ac...
28 Touko 20231h 1min
Who Owns the Land and the Sea? Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, Nonhle Mbuthuma and Silje Ask Lundberg
Just weeks after the historical film Ellos Eatnu/Let the River Flow had premiered, lead actress and activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen was back in chains – for real, this time. Together with fellow Sam...
28 Touko 202354min
The Superwoman Black Feminist. Tsitsi Dangarembga and Maaza Mengiste
Through more than 30 years, Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga has made her mark as a writer and director. With her trilogy of novels following Tambu, she portrays a period of upheaval for her home country...
21 Touko 20231h 5min
My Brilliant Friend from Zimbabwe. About Tsitsi Dangarembga's trilogy
A young girl from a poor family fighting to get the education she wants, but which is primarily reserved for her brother. A beautiful and worldly friend who brings her out of her shell. The history of...
21 Touko 202356min
The Gospel of Lucy. Jamaica Kincaid and Ida Pallin Bostadløkken
Jamaica Kincaid is one of the greatest authors of feminist and postcolonial literature of our time. In her handful of novels and a collection of short stories, she has portrayed themes such as structu...
2 Huhti 20231h 6min
When the World Collapses. Iryna Tsilyk and Åsne Seierstad
“How will you show the destroyed city?”The Trofymchuks live in a small city in Donbas’ “Red Zone”, Ukraine, which since Russia’s invasion in 2014 has seen frequent shellings and the breakdown of infra...
19 Maalis 202345min
Red Lies. Lea Ypi and Marianne Marthinsen
As a little girl, Lea Ypi regarded Stalin and Albania’s leader Enver Hoxha as dependable father figures, she liked how her teacher Nora har simple answers to everything, and what she wanted most of al...
12 Maalis 202348min
The Universal Man Caroline Criado Perez and Linn Stalsberg
The world in which we live is by and large designed and built for “the ideal man”: The size of cell phones, seat belts in cars, the development of medication – there are countless examples. And most o...
5 Maalis 202349min
