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Essays

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What has not yet come: On climate crisis, colonialism, displacement, and ancestral inheritance in This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

by Natasha Thembiso Ruwona

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Life’s tender resilience: On reunion and separation in Armenia, joy in the face of conflict, and a cinema of nostalgia in Maria Saakyan’s Mayak/The Lighthouse

by Ilinca Vanau

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Of mountains and melodies: On sound, tradition, and community in Izza Génini’s Rhythms of Marrakech

by Eilidh Campbell

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Crisis news is a genre film: On resistance, news cycles, and the banal time of protests in Tiffany Sia’s ‘Never Rest/Unrest’

by Amy Lea

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An interview with Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela

by Herb Shellenberger

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Too Salty Too Wet 更咸更濕: The Leak as Discharge

by Tiffany Sia

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Tiffany Sia: Embracing the Doomscroll

by Herb Shellenberger

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Embodied Thoughts on Zinzi Minott’s Fi Dem III: Ancestral Interference

by Rabz Lansiquot

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“Come the Light, Come the Hope”: Revisiting Kat Anderson’s John and Roundtable Conversation

by Rabz Lansiquot

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On the Films of Ayo Akingbade

by Ralf Webb

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Dreams of Direct Love: The Films of Payal Kapadia

by Kelley Dong

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Génini’s Documentaries

by Stefanie Van de Peer

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All My Exorcisms Have Failed: Notes on a Few Angelo Madsen Minax Works

by Steve Reinke

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Marla: Notes on Daddy’s Boy

by Esther Draycott

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The Ebb and Flow of Music

by Yasmine Benabdallah

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In, Out, Out, In: Maria Anastassiou’s Way My It Did I

by María Palacios Cruz