Anita Khanna is the director of the TriContinental Film Festival, which is showing at cinemas in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town.
Shaun de Waal reviews two documentaries about Israel-Palestine, both showing at the TriContinental Film Festival.
Documentarians tend to traffic in misery and horror and it can be hard to escape that feeling when taking a look at the TriContinental Film Festival.
This year’s Tricontinental Film Festival celebrates those who have fought to protect freedom of speech and expression.
The Tricontinental Film Festival, the biggest festival of human rights cinema in Africa, returns with a thought-provoking lineup.
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/ 21 September 2011
Filmmaker Peter Wintonick, director of <i>Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</i>, speaks to the <i>M&G</i>.
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/ 19 September 2011
Zanele Muholi speaks about her documentary <i>Difficult Love</i>, and allowing "outsiders" to examine her life as a black lesbian in South Africa.
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/ 16 September 2011
Ingrid Martens’s <i>Africa Shafted — Under One Roof </i>explores the lives of non-south Africans in Africa’s tallest building.
Life as an exile in Europe is illuminated through
the eyes of artist Dumile Feni’s daughter, who never met her father.
<i>TAC — Taking Haart</i> could be seen as propaganda, or part of the TAC’s campaign to win hearts and minds. But it’s good propoganda.
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/ 16 September 2009
This trend of using art as an outlet for frustration and marginalisation is evident in the films showing at the Tri Continental film festival.
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/ 11 September 2009
<em>Anthrax War</em> is Bob Coen’s engrossing voyage of discovery into the dark world of chemical and biological warfare.
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/ 11 September 2009
Wole Soyinka, the wisecracking writer with the grizzled hair, has lived a full, eventful life, as documented in a film about his life.
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/ 10 September 2009
<i>The Glass House</i> follows four girls determined to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-a-kind rehabilitation facility.
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/ 10 September 2009
Eight internationally acclaimed filmmakers who will present their films and take part in the People to People International Documentary Conference.
The TriContinental Film Festival in Cape Town features<i>The Choir</i> a film that represents the vilest of colonial anti-black representations.
MOVIES OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal gives his view on "big-screen doccies" and reviews <i>Up the Yangtze</i> as well as <i> Please Vote for Me</i>.