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Come back, South Africa: Africa in Motion 2014

Three recent documentaries about the birth and growing pains of post-apartheid South Africa epitomised the reflective mood at this year’s Scottish showcase of African cinema. Harriet Warman reports.

Harriet Warman
Friday 5 December 2014

Festivals
Seeing plenty: women on film

Sight & Sound must recognise the wealth of women making and commenting on movies, write two correspondents. Plus our response.

Ania Ostrowska, Sight & Sound Editors
Tuesday 2 December 2014

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An invitation is not enough

Sight & Sound received the following response to our editor’s editorial The Equalizers, which invited more introductions and pitches from good female writers.

Ania Ostrowska
Monday 1 December 2014

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The equalizers

Nick James on the ongoing search for more women in films, and in film.

Friday 28 November 2014

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It gets dystopian: where are the female superheroes?

When it comes to winning female superheroes in 21st-century Hollywood blockbusters, Katniss Everdeen really is one in a million, says Bidisha.

Bidisha
Saturday 22 November 2014

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CPH:DOX 2014: history in the turning

The Fall of the Wall was showcased at this year’s Danish celebration of documentary art; but the best of the fest raked over less fêted events, as well two forays in nonfiction performance. Carmen Grey reports.

Friday 21 November 2014

Festivals
Performing lives: Queer Lisboa 2014

Ben Walters on four films at this year’s Queer Lisboa film festival that queered the art/life divide – in rising order of enigma.

Ben Walters
Friday 21 November 2014

Festivals
Cinema of saudade: Doclisboa’14

Nick James finds Portugal’s trademark wistful melancholia on screen via Dutch master Johan van der Keuken, Marguerite Duras and the longtime head of the Portuguese Cinematheque.

Friday 21 November 2014

Festivals
The trails of life: James Benning’s natural history and FAROCKI

With two new works unveiled at the 52nd Viennale, James Benning is on teasing and pensive form, Michael Pattison reports.

Michael Pattison
Friday 14 November 2014

Festivals
Jerry Lewis: where’s the respect?

It’s out there alright – in some surprising quarters, says Brad Stevens.

Friday 14 November 2014

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