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Vasilakos

Favorite films

  • Capernaum
  • Possession
  • Taste of Cherry
  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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  • To a Land Unknown

    ★★★★½

  • Boy & the World

  • Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    ★★★★★

  • The Prototype

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  • Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    ★★★★★

    «A total man does not live one experience»
    - Ernest Cole

    Looking through the photographs from Ernest's Cole's work of observing and capturing the reality in South Africa and in America in the 50's 60's and 70's we don't only understand the brutality and the dehumanisation of the apartheid in the colonialist and rasist state of South Africa
    and the pseudo-democratic living conditions in the «land of the free» , we can also understand how for example neocolonial states like…

  • Out of Africa

    Out of Africa

    ★½

    Not the right way to talk about the colonization of Africa

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  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★★★

    A perfect example how is the middle class afraid of losing their class privileges and a depiction of their hatred of social change and rebellion.
    Also how the state power , which depends on its systematic patriarchy and the exploitation of the other , more specifically the exploitation of women , will do whatever possible to stop the rebellion and civil disobedience.
    A film that depicts openly and realistically the women's rebellion in Iran in the years 2022-2023.

  • Do the Right Thing

    Do the Right Thing

    ★★★★★

    The working class fights the working class under the supervision of the powerholders i.e the capitalists.

    {The war which is coming
    Is not the first one. There were
    Other wars before it.
    When the last one came to an end
    There were conquerors and conquered.
    Among the conquered the common people
    Starved. Among the conquerors
    The common people starved too.}
    - Bertolt Brecht

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