Film Censorship Movies

After a 25-year battle with Thai censorship, a filmmaker discusses the value of art in society.

Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980),directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the va...

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art and creation; but there is another tale to be tol...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In addition to the...

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of B...

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in orde...

A musical, all-singing, all-dancing, attack on censorship in Singaporean movies

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from the fi...

In early 2000s Dhaka, a film journalist searches for a controversial B-list star in the chaos of a push to ban vulgar movies.