2022 | 00:35:16
Country: Portugal / Spain / France / Guinea-Bissau
Language: Guinea-Bissau Creole
Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

During Guinea-Bissau’s struggle for independence from Portugal in the 1960s, rebel leader Amílcar Cabral launched an ambitious education programme to fight the Portuguese colonial power. In Mangrove School, Filipa César and Sónia Vaz Borges traverse the history and impact of the movement. In the 1960s and 70s, the nomadic guerrilla schools under the mangrove trees became symbols of the people’s anti-colonial struggle, including against the colonial mentality itself. A school system set up by militant rebels, which for the same reason became the target of bomb attacks during the country’s long struggle for independence. Based on historical research, and at the crossroads of art and political theory, César and Borges revisit the history of the mangrove schools in a documentary fable of resistance, independence and autonomous forms of education.

1971 | 00:13:07
Country: Canada
Language: English
Color | Stereo 

Released in 1971, this lyrical short documentary marked Alanis Obomsawin’s directorial debut. Filmed at a residential school in James Bay, northern Ontario, Cree children share stories of their families and community at Christmas time. Focusing on their touching and often entertaining drawings, the film gives voice to the many children forced to attend residential schools in Canada and shares the beauty and resilience of our youngest.

2022 | 00:26:00
Country: Brazil
Language: Brazilian Portuguese
Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

Olho da Rua casts a temporary community of homeless people living in the streets of downtown Recife. Inspired by the techniques of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, the film stages a series of performative acts that focus on collective dynamics and exercises of gaze in a public square. Bordering fiction and nonfiction, the aim was to engage the cast of nonprofessional actors in debates about identity, care, family, class consciousness, and social and political visibility through actions and words. Out of the script, the images are delicately receptive to the cast’s personality and emotional worlds, and stand as a powerful testimony of contemporary Brazil, with its rich multiculturalism and structural inequalities. Using art and radical pedagogy tools to reposition the stories of people who are marginalized and made invisible, the work fosters ways to collectively rethink reality and imagine alternatives.

2025 | 00:26:00 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

Teaching America explores the battle around the teaching of African American studies from inside the classroom, focusing on the transformative journeys of the Arkansas students, teachers and families who are part of the inaugural classes of students taking AP African American studies nationwide.

2025 | 00:11:00
Country: USA
Language: English
Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

Archives of historic media reports and fictional spaces blend to reconstruct the closure of Pittsburgh’s Schenley High School. As classrooms become luxury apartments, former students confront the politics of memory, contested histories, and the covert violence of public space converted into private real estate.