A groundbreaking neorealist film, this acclaimed classic depicts the organization and activities of the guerilla revolutionaries of the National Liberation Front in Algeria in their battle for freedom against the French colonialist armies that attempted to suppress and destroy them.
This documentary by Abenaki activist Alanis Obomsawin emerged as a real time response to the 1990 Oka Crisis in which a Mohawk protest of the expansion of a golf course onto their land was met with a police barricade and later military siege of the Mohawk reserves which lasted 78 and led to two fatalities - one on each side. Obomsawin inserted herself and her shifting crew into the crisis as it occurred, documenting events from the Mohawk side.
The first feature film by iconoclastic artist Lizze Borden, Born in Flames was shot guerilla style on weekends in pre-gentrification New York over a period of five years. Set ten years after a socialist-democratic revolution in the United States, the film explores the ways that marginalized groups such as women, people of colour, and queer people continued to be targeted and suppressed, and the efforts of community-organized intersectional groups to fight back.
Consisting of four short stories from different points of view linked by a single narrator, I Am Cuba shows the way that the country was exploited by tourists and foreign capitalists, and how war comes to everyone - from the student to the farmer.
This classic film began the “Italian neo-realist” movement that would see further expression in titles like Ossessione, Bicycle Thieves, and Umberto D. Filmed immediately after the end of the Second World War, on location in Rome, with a mix of professional and amateur actors, it tells a story of resistance to the Nazi occupation of Rome in the closing days of the war.
