Colonialism Movies

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

Talia is a 19-year-old Belgian girl, with Senegalese roots, who is visiting her country of origin for the first time. In Dakar, in his cousin's...

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.

There is a wrecked car in the Algerian desert. The girl gets in and drives. Apart from sand, there is nothing to see for miles. Searching for a...

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

A plantation owner's daughter falls in love with the handsome plantation foreman Andrea, but her father disapproves of the relationship. Andrea is ...

A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanzania. On the outskirts of Serengeti National...

Two decades on from Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while privileging some of...

A short experimental film about a fire hydrant, a busy sidewalk nestled between an electrical post and a building.

Under Dorchester Square in Montreal lies the cemetery where 55,000 people were buried in the 19th century. The square is still at the heart of social...

Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay...

When a northeastern brazilian worker, Filismino, is forced to move to the big southeastern metropolis of São Paulo, the northeastern grim...

Shirley has gone to Africa to civilize the cannibals; something she is able to do with the assistance of Diperzan.

This documentary questions the consequences of the German colonial war at the beginning of the 20th Century in South West Africa, and explores how...

The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through...

The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias.

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

«My grandma had a great strength and love for life which made me believe that some of us were able to become immortals and escape death. When...