A curated streaming platform centering cinema from the Global Majority.
curated by Nataleah Hunter-Young
The celebrated and sought after Tunisian cinematographer, Frida Marzouk, blends documentary and narrative styles using her instinct for vérité and signature handheld fluidity. Marzouk’s open and airy approach has offered her subjects both authority and intimacy, establishing a regionally influential cinematic language along the way. Whether placing the audience up close, in the shallow… read more
Cinelogue Picks brings together a curated mix of films that extend the conversations within Cinelogue’s programs.
Many of these films trace how colonial legacies persist through state violence, class hierarchies, and gendered exclusions, while others gesture toward different forms of solidarity and imagination.
In addition to these curatorial choices, certain titles appear here at… read more
curated by Third Horizon
Third Horizon presents a programme of films for Cinelogue drawn from the Anansi TV collection. Each film was previously selected for the annual Third Horizon Film Festival.
The programme—thirteen films in total—consists of a mixture of features and shorts, fiction films and documentaries, with a particular focus on creative nonfiction. It is at the intersection of the real and the… read more
curated by AVAH Collective
همه بردند آرزو در خاک
خاک دیگر چه آرزو دارد؟
All take their desires to earth,
What then is the desire of earth itself?
These lines of poetry, sung by Ustad Sarahang, pose a question that lingers unanswered in the films we have selected for this programme. In both Farsi and Pashto, the word for earth is khaak, a context-dependent term that can mean dust, clay or dirt; death as well… read more
curated by Giovanni Vimercati
Paraphrasing Assata Shakur’s dictum “a woman’s place is in the struggle,” this program of films by and about women in the Middle East is meant to foreground their place on the frontlines of political struggles, past and present. Often faced with a dual form of oppression, within and without their societies, women in the Middle East have had to confront the orientalist paternalism that… read more
curated by Forum Lenteng
Letters to the Future features a selection of Southeast Asian films that offer contemporary commentaries. These letters, written from our standpoint in a time when recording devices have become more accessible and democratic, serve as reflections and trajectories of hopes that were once full of promise but have since diverged in different directions. This collection of films acts as… read more
curated by Ambulante
The task of assembling a retrospective anniversary program means confronting the impossibility of containing this sea of stories, aesthetic possibilities, and impacts that have reshaped the landscape over the past twenty years. Faced with a living, uncontainable archive, this selection celebrates the passion of our audience—those who keep the Ambulante ship afloat—and reminds us of the… read more
curated by KINO CAIRO
Alexandria needs no introduction. Egypt’s second largest city, an ancient Mediterranean metropolis, and an age-old source of inspiration for philosophers, painters, writers, poets – and filmmakers, most famously, the towering figures of Youssef Chahine (The Alexandria Trilogy, Cairo Station) and Shady Abdelsalam (The Night of Counting the Years).
More recently, since the shift to… read more
co-curated with Jacqueline Nsiah
Cinelogue is proud to present a retrospective of essential works by Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sène Absa, a multidisciplinary artist whose cinema fuses music, politics, gender, and spiritual inquiry into a multilayered portrait of postcolonial Senegal. Born in 1958 in the Dakar suburb of Tableau Ferraille, Absa's practice – as painter, playwright, musician, and director – unfolds… read more
curated by Ronnie Vitalia
Afro Queer Voices focuses on Black Queer visibility of African LGBTQIA+ filmmakers or their protagonists reclaiming their narratives.
This program presents engaging images of African queerness and gender fluidity highlighting the oppression experienced by LGBTQIA+ individuals on the African continent and beyond. With this program, we invite audiences to immerse themselves in the… read more
