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4 films tagged colonialism

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  • 2025 · Documentary

    Two Kenyan women quit their jobs to restore a grand old library in the middle of Nairobi, and run into city politics and the country's colonial past. A documentary that stays with the two of them throughout.

    • Strongly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: How to Build a Library

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Drama

    A Portuguese engineer takes an NGO road-building job in Guinea-Bissau and gets involved with two locals, on terms that are never equal. Three and a half hours long, and it takes its time.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly slow
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: I Only Rest in the Storm

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Magellan

    Little-known

    2025 · Drama

    After years in the Portuguese campaigns in Southeast Asia, Ferdinand Magellan takes his plan for a westward route to Spain and sails in 1519, with a Cebuano man he bought as a slave beside him. It is a long historical epic.

    • Clearly realistic
    • Clearly epic
    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly slow

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Magellan

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Landmarks

    Little-known

    2025 · Documentary

    A documentary about the killing of Javier Chocobar, a Chuschagasta leader in the fight for indigenous land rights in Argentina, and about who owns the land he died on. It is as much about the history of colonialism as about the crime.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly slow
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Landmarks

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.