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How “Khartoum” captures the revolutionary hope of a war-torn city

Solyana Bekele, Managing Editor -
Among the films screened at this year’s New African Film Festival held in Silver Spring, MD between March 13-26 was the 2025 “Khartoum;” a...

The film as an anticolonial weapon: Haile Gerima’s “Black Lions, Roman Wolves” debuts at historic Lincoln Theatre

Solyana Bekele, Managing Editor -
In the heart of Washington, D.C., at the historic Lincoln Theatre—known as “Washington’s Black Broadway”—Africans gathered to watch D.C.’s own Haile Gerima’s upcoming documentary,...

“The Alabama Solution” reveals the genocide of prisons; African Internationalism provides way forward

Matsemela Odom -
On October 10, 2025, “The Alabama Solution,” an acclaimed expose into Alabama’s prison system, was released on HBO. Earlier in the year, it was...

How ‘Sinners’ reflects African resistance against colonial capitalism

Matsemela Odom -
This article reviews the immensely popular film Sinners from an African Internationalist perspective. On April 18, 2025, the musical horror film Sinners released to the...

African anti-colonial cinema, join Uhuru’s black working class film series

Matsemela Odom -
In recent years, the tradition of African anti-colonial cinema has reemerged in a variety of forms: motion pictures (feature-length films), television series, documentaries, and...

“They Cloned Tyrone” exposes the everyday expressions of colonial capitalism

Solyana Bekele, Managing Editor -
Its comedic timing and almost parody-like undertones might, for some, obscure the more serious and revealing aspects of "They Cloned Tyrone," a 2023 film...

“Oppenheimer” film sympathizes with atomic bomb scientist; fails to call out U.S. genocide and terrorism

Solyana Bekele, Managing Editor -
Rather than a story about the atrocities committed against the Japanese people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second Imperialist War, Christopher Nolan’s 2023...
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