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Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
This true, astonishing story of what King Leopold II did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. “ Congo:White King, Red Rubber, Black Death” describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror...
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Lingala
Description
Hundreds of young revolutionaries take to the streets of Kinshasa when Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, refuses to relinquish power at the end of his second term. Protests are met with violence, but the battle for free elections and democracy cannot be repressed.
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
BLACK MEXICANS / La Negrada is the first Mexican feature film about the Afro-Mexican community, filmed entirely with people from different towns around the Costa Chica in Oaxaca. Among the black people in the Costa Chica in Oaxaca, it is socially accepted that a man lives with more than one woman. Juana and Magdalena share Neri’s love, they both know that this situation is hurting them. Juana will have to die in order to show Magdalena a new path...
4) Tazzeka
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Growing up in the Moroccan village of TAZZEKA, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home.
5) Quilombo
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Portuguese
Description
This historical saga is a stirring fusion of folklore, political impact and dynamic story-telling, realized in vibrant tropical colors and set to the pulsing beat of Gilberto Gil's musical score. After the slave revolt of 1641, groups of enslaved black Brazilians escaped to mountainous jungle strongholds where they formed self-governing communities. This film is the chronicle of the most famous of these communities which flourished for several decades...
6) Dry Season
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Français
Description
Set in Chad in 2006 during a time when the government has granted amnesty to all war criminals. Atim, 16 years old, is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may kill the man who killed his father. Atim leaves his village for N’djamena, seeking a man he does not know. He quickly locates him: former war criminal Nassara is now married and settled down as the owner of a small bakery. With the firm intention of killing him, Atim gets closer...
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Legendary Aboriginal actor and Australian icon David Gulpilil's life has been one of dueling lifestyles, with his jet-setting movie star life on a completely different plane from his life as an Aboriginal village elder, and director Darlene Johnson manages to capture intimate details from both lifestyles in her 2003 biographical documentary GULPILIL: ONE RED BLOOD. At the age of 17, Gulpilil made history as the first Aboriginal actor to appear on...
9) Marighella
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A new Brazilian action drama set in 1969 based on the life of Afro-Brazilian politician and guerrilla fighter Carlos MARGIHELLA. Facing a violent military dictatorship and with little support from a timid opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella organizes a resistance movement. Alongside revolutionaries 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action. The film is adapted from the biography Marighella...
10) The Tracker
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Three mounted policemen are led by an Aboriginal Tracker as they hunt a fugitive across the Australian outback in 1922. Through massacre and murder the party falls into disarray, stirring up questions of what is black and what is white and who is leading whom.
11) The Citizen
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Wilson, a political refugee from Guinea Bissau now working as a security guard in Budapest, stumbles into love with Mary, a married teacher helping him cram for Hungarian citizenship, a situation further complicated by his paternal feelings for a fellow immigrant. Of the moment in an age of ethno-nationalist rhetoric and refugee crisis headlines, THE CITIZEN is an austere powerhouse work using mostly non-professional performers. Official Selection...
12) White Lies
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Paraiti is the healer and midwife of her rural, tribal people in New Zealand. But new laws prohibiting unlicensed healers, make the practice of much Maori medicine illegal. She gets approached by Maraea (Rachel House, *Hunt for the Wilderpeople*), the servant of a wealthy woman, Rebecca, who seeks her knowledge and assistance in order to hide a secret which could destroy Rebecca’s position in European settler society. This compelling story tackles...
13) Rosa Chumbe
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Rosa Chumbe, an indigenous, mature police officer struggling with gambling and alcohol addiction lives with her daughter Sheila and newborn grandson. One day, after a big fight between them, Sheila steals her mother’s savings and storms out of the house leaving her baby behind and Rosa is forced to spend some time with her grandson. Winner of Best Film and Best Actress at the **Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema**. Winner...