Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (Lee Hirsch, 2002)

By: börek - February 17th, 2026  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday February 22, 2026, Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony * directed by Lee Hirsch * 2002 * 108 min * languages: English, Zulu * door opens at 20:00 * intro & film at 20:30 * free entrance.

«Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony» shows the crucial role of music in the South African liberation struggle against apartheid. Detailed reports of the murderous conditions of settler colonialism, ironic derisions of the settler’s folly, strategic means of communication within and through prison walls, but mostly insurrectionary calls to armed resistance: protest songs were the fuel of the fight. When the first victims of apartheid brutality died protesting against the pass laws in the 1960s, they were singing. When students were fired on by police with live ammunition during their protest against the use of Afrikaans in black schools in 1976, they were singing, too. Amandla! is an impassioned chronicle of the role of music as a mean of protest and survival through more than 40 years of struggle against racial oppression. As the Imperial machine marches on, this incredible documentary rekindles the spark of riotous joy and sends a roaring warning. Trough the verses of Miriam Makeba – legendary South African singer interviewed in the film, “White man don’t sleep long and don’t sleep too deep / Or your life and your possessions, how long will you keep? / For I’ve heard a rumor that’s running around / That the black man’s demanding his own piece of ground…”

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To Kill a War Machine (2025)

By: börek - January 9th, 2026  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday January 11, 2025, To Kill a War Machine (2025) * 1h 17min * in English * door opens at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30 * free entrance.

Documentary about activists from Palestine Action targeting British complicity with Israeli apartheid, how Elbit was shut down. Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to tear down arms factories around the UK. For many years, Palestine Action has taken consistent direct action against Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm. A once quiet killer which operates across Britain has become a better known target of the Palestine solidarity movement.

In July 2025, the British government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 after members of the network spray-painted Royal Air Force aircraft at Brize Norton. Palestine Action dissolved following the ban, but its supporters and former members continue to take legal action to reverse its proscription.
On 20 October, a press release was issued by Prisoners4Palestine stating that on 2 November 2025, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, activists held pending trial for actions would start on a hunger strike. The eight hunger strikers are members of the ‘Filton 24’ and ‘Brize Norton 5’ who are being held on remand. All of them are expected to be held in detention for more than a year before their trial date. Lawyers for Palestine Action have said the group can be compared to the suffragettes. Huda Ammori the co-founder of Palestine Action has said the “votes-for-women movement” would have faced the same ban, if today’s terrorism laws had been in place more than 100 years ago.
On 6 January 2026, Heba Muraisi is reported to have difficulty breathing after 65 days on hunger strike. Teuta Hoxha and Kamran Ahmad are still on hunger strike.
Since July 2025, there would have been over 2700 arrests in various demonstrations and protests.

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Cinerevolt: Commando 52 (1965) & The Laughing Man (1966) by Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann

By: börek - February 14th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday February 23, 2025, Cinerevolt #2: Commando 52 (1965, 37 min) & The Laughing Man (1966, 66 min), two films by Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann * doors open at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30.

Today we hear of the Congo by means of its minerals first, and its people second. One determines the other: cobalt means poverty, gold means war, diamonds mean repression. There was a time when this dynamic was challenged, as Patrice Lumumba did when he asked “all Congolese citizens, men, women and children, to set themselves resolutely to the task of creating a national economy and ensuring our economic independence”. Nominal independence is no problem, economic independence is unforgivable. Mere months after taking office, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was removed from office, kidnapped, and eventually assassinated with the support of the American, British, and Belgian intelligence agencies. In the imperialist war on Congolese self-determination, brutal merdenaries came down upon the Lumumbaist rebels of the Simba and Kwilu rebellions. It is upon these agents of destruction, the mercenaries, that Heynowski and Scheumann train their lens. The two East-German filmmakers first made Commando 52, a short documentary combining still photographs taken of the mercenaries in Congo with interviews and voice over narration. The second film, The Laughing Man, was made by posing as West-German journalists in order to interview Siegfried Muller. The film consists of this single interview with Muller, a Nazi-turned-mercenary charged with the destruction of Lumumbaist rebels. Together these two films paint a sinister portrait of the perpetrators of these atrocities and the narratives they live in, and demonstrate clearly the direct translation of Nazism into American & NATO imperialism.

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Movie night: The Uprising (Pravini Baboeram, 2019)

By: börek - July 2nd, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 2 july 2023, Movie night: The Uprising (Pravini Baboeram, 2019) * 94 minutes * Languages: English & Dutch * English subtitles * Doors open at 20:30, intro & film start at 21:00.

The Uprising is a documentary that connects colonialism to the common challenges that different communities of colour witness in contemporary society. The director analyses in nine written songs and with thirteen interviews how the heritage of colonialism is still rooted in nowadays society and how this heritage criminalises social/political struggles against racism. The struggles that are analysed in this documentary includes the struggle against blackface, the struggle for recognition of Dutch’s crimes in Indonesia, the fight for liberation of Palestine and the struggle for an inclusive society. The documentary ends with some suggestion for future resistance movements in order to create a new world of plurality and diversity. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/329425921

About the director:

Pravini Baboeram is an artist and activist from the Netherlands who use art to create social change. She holds a master degree in Media & Culture studies from UVA in Amsterdam. She has her own production label and was founder of several action against racism and cultural appropriation.

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