Victor Fraga

1 month ago | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Firat Yücel |Erhan Örs |Sibil Çekmen

The year is 1988, and the conflict between Irish Unionists and Republicans is at its height, with hundreds of bomb attacks and more than 3,000 casualties over the course of 25 years. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams opines that the IRA has the right to armed struggle, a stance that Conservative British PM Margaret Thatcher equates with endorsing terrorism. So she decided to silence Adams and his accolades by introducing a media ban of their voices.

1 month ago | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Niloufar Taghizadeh |Ketevan Vashagashvili

There are many ways of silencing people. The most efficient and sophisticated one is getting them to do it themselves, in what’s commonly known as self-censorship. Eight Turkish artists get together in order to reflect upon the dynamics of oppression, thereby revealing that we often discard our most subversive works and ideas without even realising it. The documentary immediately ascertains that censorship in Turkey has become a lot stricter since the suppression of the Gezi Park protests in 2013.

1 month ago | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Ketevan Vashagashvili |Steven Eastwood |Sam Ahern

Born in Tehran in 1950 under the name of Faegheh Atashin, Googoosh was catapulted to fame at a very young age. She sang in the movie Fear and Hope (George Obadiah, 1960), at the age of just 10. She became a regular feature on Iranian film and television in her teens, singing groovy songs inspired by The Jackson 5 and Shirley Bassey, she tells us. She became the country’s biggest household name in the 1970s, and soon started touring the world – recording in English, French, Italian and Spanish.

1 month ago | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga

Manizha Bakhtari says mournfully as she leaves behind the former Afghan embassy in Vienna, “We never anticipated this”. The scene underlines the air of uncertainty driving forward Natalie Halla‘s engaging documentary. The Austrian director accompanies the Kabul-born diplomat, author and journalist, in the months after a moment of unprecedented upheaval. Bakhtari serves as the Afghan ambassador in Vienna as the Taliban takes Kabul in 2021.

2 months ago | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Taghi Amirani |Valnei Nunes |Raoul Peck

With a duration of 150 minutes, and a freeform structure heavily reliant on highly innovative montage, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat takes viewers on a loud and colourful journey across the developments that led to the murder of Congo’s first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba. Most of the events take place in 1960. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) gained its independence from Belgium (“an independence rotten at the roots”) on June 30th of that year.