Icarus Films: Althusser, an Intellectual Adventure
Directed by Bruno Oliviero 55 minutes / ColorEnglish; French / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 Philosopher, Marxist, professor, murderer. More than a quarter century after his death, Louis Althusser, one of the most influential leftist thinkers of the 20th century, remains an enigmatic figure: a man whose work rejuvenated Marxist theory
Icarus Films: National Diploma
Directed by Dieudo Hamadi 92 minutes / ColorEnglish; French / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2014 Joel loads a stack of boxes onto a hand truck and weaves his way through a crowded outdoor market in Kisangani, one of the largest cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An orphan who lives
Icarus Films: The Apology
Directed by Tiffany Hsiung 104 minutes / ColorClosed CaptionedRelease: 2016Copyright: 2016 Winner of a Peabody award, a duPont-Columbia award, and named Best Documentary at the Busan International Film Festival, THE APOLOGY follows the personal journeys of three former “comfort women” who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped
Icarus Films: The Destruction of Memory
Directed by Tim Slade 85 minutes / ColorClosed CaptionedRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 The bombing of Sarajevo’s National Library and the burning of its ancient books. The looting of the Iraqi National Museum and destruction of its priceless historical objects. The beheading of Kahled al-Asaad, long-time lead archaeologist for the UNESCO World
Icarus Films: Mali Blues
Directed by Lutz Gregor 93 minutes / ColorEnglish; French / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America’s cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in
Icarus Films: Chicago Boys
Directed by Carola Fuentes and Rafael Valdeavellano 85 minutes / ColorEnglish; Spanish / English subtitlesRelease: 2016Copyright: 2015 After the 1973 coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power, a group of Chilean economists were given the power to turn Chile into a laboratory for the world’s most radical neo-liberal experiments. These
Icarus Films: Welcome to Refugeestan
Directed by Anne Poiret 72 minutes / ColorEnglish; French; Arabic / English subtitlesClosed CaptionedRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 A Burundian man steps off a bus in Tanzania and waits to be processed at a refugee camp. Two of his brothers are dead, and his parents have disappeared. With no idea what lies
Icarus Films: Mali Blues
Directed by Lutz Gregor 93 minutes / ColorEnglish; French / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America’s cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in
Icarus Films: The Giant Is Falling
Directed by Rehad Desai and Jabulani Mzozo 77 minutes / ColorEnglish / English subtitlesClosed CaptionedRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 The loyalty people have for the party of liberation operates at a deep psychological level. But in recent years, the ANC’s popularity is at an all time low, not least amongst people who
Icarus Films: Bitter Money
Directed by Wang Bing 152 minutes / ColorMandarin / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 The city of Huzhou, where the film is shot, is home to 18,000 clothing factories. They are staffed by about 300,000 workers, many of them migrants from rural areas in the surrounding provinces. BITTER MONEY follows a
