The most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule.
Olsson's film is designed to shame and provides a raw reminder of how greedy capitalist culture has exploited a continent and its people, but it is also a passionate, proud and deeply affecting educational tool which puts forward a plan of action by tracing a passage through the past.
A powerful and provoking take on a violent and volatile era.
Fascinating and provocative.
Upsetting in a way that frames upset as progress.
The film is a bleak but real portrait of an era, though it has nothing to say about what these nations are thinking and feeling right now.
Through it all, the changing nature of violence (destructive, cleansing, inevitable) is unravelled in illuminating, harrowing form.
Cameo, Edinburgh on Tuesday December 2, 2014. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Monday December 8, 2014, until Tuesday December 9, 2014. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com