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Storytelling
We reached out to directors of several 2022 Mother Tongue Film Festival selections to ask their thoughts about how film connects us to the past.
“Ode to Billie Joe” is not a folksong, but it caught the nation’s ear that summer for reasons that still reverberate today.
The term “legacy” rings differently in the consciousness of each individual—and has different meanings in a range of cultural traditions and mother tongues.
Fairy tales have captivated audiences across cultures and media for millennia.
The celebrated Peruvian filmmaker passed away in November at the age of thirty-four.
El célebre cineasta peruano falleció el mes pasado, a la edad de treinta y cuatro años.
So many survivors had remarked how the trauma had come back magnified as they neared the end of their lives.
As a filmmaker, Adeyemi’s work is deeply anchored in an inescapable Black gaze that is banished of racial tropes.
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