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Anita Khanna:”This year it’s a very feminine festival.”

Prayer for rage, justice and flight

Anita Khanna is the director of the TriContinental Film Festival, which is showing at cinemas in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town.

Palestinians from the village of Bil’in protest against an Israeli fence and settlement in Five Broken Cameras
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Pastrami and apartheid

Shaun de Waal reviews two documentaries about Israel-Palestine, both showing at the TriContinental Film Festival.

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Be bold with bananas

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.

Ai Weiwei
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We live in these times, and we have to speak out

This year’s Tricontinental Film Festival celebrates those who have fought to protect freedom of speech and expression.

A scene from Bastardy
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Festival of truth and freedom

The Tricontinental Film Festival, the biggest festival of human rights cinema in Africa, returns with a thought-provoking lineup.

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Loose canon

Filmmaker Peter Wintonick, director of <i>Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</i>, speaks to the <i>M&G</i>.

From the outside, looking in

Zanele Muholi speaks about her documentary <i>Difficult Love</i>, and allowing "outsiders" to examine her life as a black lesbian in South Africa.

Known only by his absence

Known only by his absence

Life as an exile in Europe is illuminated through the eyes of artist Dumile Feni’s daughter, who never met her father.

Picturing Ponte

Ingrid Martens’s <i>Africa Shafted — Under One Roof </i>explores the lives of non-south Africans in Africa’s tallest building.

T-shirts
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T-shirts, T-cells and triumphs

<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.

The Song remains the same

This trend of using art as an outlet for frustration and marginalisation is evident in the films showing at the Tri Continental film festival.

Myth of the man peeled away

Wole Soyinka, the wisecracking writer with the grizzled hair, has lived a full, eventful life, as documented in a film about his life.

The return of Dr Death

<em>Anthrax War</em> is Bob Coen’s engrossing voyage of discovery into the dark world of chemical and biological warfare.

Opening-night film

<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.

International visiting filmmakers

Eight internationally acclaimed filmmakers who will present their films and take part in the People to People International Documentary Conference.

The basest patronage

The TriContinental Film Festival in Cape Town features<i>The Choir</i> a film that represents the vilest of colonial anti-black representations.

Of dams and democracies

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>.