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Miners Shot Down to premiere at One World Film Festival

WorldView-funded Miners Shot Down will premiere at the One World Film Festival in Prague, Czech, 3 to 12 March. The film’s website has also launched: http://www.minersshotdown.co.za, with all information about upcoming screenings and ways that you can get involved. The film charts the seven days leading up to August 16, 2012, where South African police opened

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Do Gooders premieres at the London Film Festival

WorldView-funded film Do Gooders  made its debut at the BFI London Film Festival on 10 October. The film, directed by Chloe Ruthven, explores the impact of decades of foreign aid on Palestinians and asks whether the West’s acts of altruism are in fact helping to maintain the injustices of the status quo. Ruthven’s grandparents were aid workers

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‘Powerless’ premiered at the Berlinale

WorldView-funded film Powerless had its first ever screening at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival on Feb 13-16 at various locations at the festival. More information. The feature documentary, directed by Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar, is set in Kanpur, India’s former leather capital, where blackouts frequently take up more of the time in some

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I Am a Man: male circumcision under the spotlight

South African filmmaker, Mayenzeke Baza, investigates the issues behind the tradition of circumcision in Xhosa society.

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