Darkness, censorship & cinema (7. Orient)

Between assumed nationalism and the desire for emancipation, the cinemas of the Orient never cease to surprise us. Hostages to state funding or international investment, a good number of filmmakers from the Maghreb, the Near, Middle and Far East are resisting to work freely, circumventing, when they can, the dictates of religion and politics who very often unite to prevent them. This seventh volume, which voluntarily took a few liberties with geography, does not claim to make an exhaustive tour of the question but the more modest ambition to make you discover the history of these women and these men who, in spite of shackles, bans, arrests and convictions, stand tall and dignified, to talk about their neighborhood, their village, their country and the world, driven by a passion they share with a young generation already ready and willing to take over.

For the seventh volume of his Darkness, cinema and censorship collection, Christophe Triollet has gathered around him eighteen teachers and film researchers, all experts in their field, to discuss the situation in the Maghreb, the Near, Middle and Far East. , but also in Russia. Darkness, cinema and censorship volume 7 questions the past, studies the present, imagines the future of a whole section of world cinema in a fascinating work of more than 500 pages.