The Gravedigger's Wife follows a Somali gravedigger's desperate search for funds to finance life-saving surgery for his wife.Read Orla Smith's interview with …
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African Cinema
‘It was always about making you feel unsafe’: Oliver Hermanus on Moffie
South African auteur Oliver Hermanus on his 1981-set film, Moffie, about how the army indoctrinated conscripted boys with white supremacy and homophobia. Moffie …
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Ep. 82: Quo Vadis, Aida and Our Lady of the Nile: Genocide on film
Jasmila Žbanic's Quo Vadis, Aida is one of the best films of the year. On this episode, we discuss it in context of Atiq Rahimi's Our Lady of the Nile, another …
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Ep. 76: Abderrahmane Sissako’s Bamako and Timbuktu
On this episode we look at two of Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako's films, the newly restored Bamako, and one of our favourite films of the 2010s, …
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In Farewell Amor, Ekwa Msangi uses Angolan dance to explore family bonds
Ekwa Msangi discusses her debut feature, Farewell Amor, a triptych about an family of Angolan immigrants who reunite in New York City.In Ekwa Msangi’s debut …
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Atiq Rahimi on uncovering the seeds of war in Our Lady of the Nile
Atiq Rahimi discusses Our Lady of the Nile, a poetic retelling of the brewing prejudice in Rwanda that led to genocide. Read our review of the film here. Listen …
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