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The Rep Report #8

Keep on pushing: a series at Film Forum looks at works from around the world that moved cinema and politics in new directions

Welcome to another edition of the Rep Report, our regular roundup of retrospectives, repertory cinema, and other film series in New York. This week, we turn our attention to a remarkable series at Film Forum, The Hour of Liberation: Decolonizing Cinema, 1966–1981. The series looks at landmark works from around the world that pushed cinema and political critique into bold new directions, and includes rarely screened films by Ousmane Sembène, Med Hondo, Sara Gómez, Glauber Rocha, and many others. Film Comment Editor-in Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined for the discussion by Elspeth Carroll, the curator of the series and Repertory Programming Associate at Film Forum, and Ashley Clark, Senior Repertory and Specialty Film Programmer at BAM.

This story is part of the May-June 2019 issue of Film Comment.

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