A Voice of One's Own: Framing Feminine Space
Weaving vignettes through subject’s lives in youth, middle age and the final days of the aged, Otilia Padua’s Three Voices takes viewers through the private sphere of three women’s lives in Mexico, centering their rooms as locations for deep vulnerabilites around the ephemerality of life, romance, marriage and the role one plays to themselves and others.
Reel House: Memories of Afghan Cinema
In this Cinelogue podcast conversation, filmmaker Ariel Nasr discusses how his documentary THE FORBIDDEN REEL activates Afghanistan’s film archive as a living, contested heritage, shaped by diasporic identity, collaboration, and the urgent struggle for access and preservation under war, censorship, and political power.
Stellenbosch and the Intergenerational Impact of Forced Removals
In this episode, director José Cardoso and producer Adrian van Wyk discuss the making of What the Soil Remembers, a powerful documentary about forced removals in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and the intergenerational impact of displacement. They reflect on community-led storytelling, archival resistance, and the film’s evolving role as a tool for memory, justice, and global solidarity.
streaming link: WHAT THE SOIL REMEMBERS
Subverting the Master’s Tools: Directing Queer Chaotics
In this episode, Sheba Anyanwu speaks with Campbell X, director of Stud Life, a film featured in our Afro Queer Voices program.
Their conversation explores the importance of representing queer identity in film, challenging traditional representations, and creating a new image that subverts harmful narratives. Speakers emphasize the need to humanize queer characters, reclaim indigenous knowledge systems, and deconstruct the colonial gaze. They also discuss the challenges of making films from the margins, including banning and financing difficulties, and advocate for more inclusive and diverse representation in the film industry.