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The Battle For Laikipia The Battle For Laikipia
The Battle For Laikipia and There Was, There Was Not
Bad Reputation (Mala reputación) (Country: Argentina, Uruguay; Year: 2024; Director: Marta García, Sol Infante)
A sex worker campaigns for recognition by labour unions.
The Battle For Laikipia (Country: Kenya, US; Year: 2024; Director: Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi)
Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.
Full Review See: Peter Murimi and Daphne Matziaraki on striking in a balance in The Battle For Laikipia
My Stolen Planet (Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man) (Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Farahnaz Sharifi; Writer: Farahnaz Sharifi)
Farah, an Iranian woman, is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people’s memories in the form of Super 8 films and records and archives her own to create an alternative history of Iran.
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There Was, There Was Not (Country: Armenia, US; Year: 2024; Director: Emily Mkrtichian; Writer: Emily Mkrtichian)
Four women try to rebuild their lives in Artsakh decades after the war, as another one breaks out.
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