Excretapolitics

La commission de la vérité

The challenge of the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" set up by Nelson Mandela in South Africa is to achieve a truly democratic society. Composed

1999

An Orange Waiting to Be Eaten

2023

GINI VIDI VICI

2024

Addicted to Solitude

I traveled to South Africa to find a white family living on a desolate farm. I wanted to film how they faced the new days of equality after the fall o

1999

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South Africa has been chronicled over time, but no one has addressed the vital role music plays in this challen

2002

Enfants de Daech, les damnés de la guerre

2021

London Recruits

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid during the 1960s.

2024

The State Against Mandela and the Others

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country

2018

The Great Wall

‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great Wall of China’, and so, a

2015

The 16th Man

Rugby Union has long been viewed in South Africa as a game for the white population, and the country’s success in the sport has been a true source of

2010

Health for the Americas: Cleanliness Brings Health

The comparison of two rural families to demonstrate the need for proper hygiene and the consequences of its neglect.

1945

Cuba in Africa

The dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans– soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses– who gave everything to end colonial rule and apartheid in Sout

2021

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever

2024

Mandela

A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and fo

1996

Death in Geneva - The Poisoning of Félix Moumié

Felix Moumié was a rebel leader in Cameroon. He was poisoned by thallium in October, 1960 in Geneva. After nearly fifty years, no one has been charge

2007

White Man Walking

In July 2020, Rob Bliss, a young, white filmmaker, posted a video of what happened when he held up a ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign in Harrison, Arkansas,

2025

Une vie en transit, ou l'illusion du provisoire

2024

SOS jeunesse en détresse

Today in France, one in five young people suffers from severe depressive symptoms, and the number of minors visiting psychiatric emergency rooms has t

2025

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies my

2019

Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source of

2018