In North #Cameroon, in the Mandaras Mountains, the #Mofu live a unique relationship with #insects, sharing with their homes & cultivations. A drought hit the region & #termites, usually a precious ally to the Mofu, have left the fields & invaded the huts and granaries.
To fight back, the Mofu people call for #Jaglavak. This ferocious army ant has the body of a dragon can chase termites out of the village.
For more than ten months, #Bakhmut was under the bombardment of #Russian troops, until it fell in May 2023 despite the fierce #resistance of the Ukrainians. The #documentary follows three young #soldiers a few months before the fall of Bakhmut: Vadim Adamov, Mykhailo Alekseenko & Yuriy Samanyuk. Only one of the three men will survive the second year of the Russian assault on #Ukraine.
In 1948 the history of #Palestine changed forever, but little is ever said about the upheaval faced by its Christian #minority. #Christians have lived side by side with #Muslims & #Jews for almost two thousand years. An integral part of #Palestinian society, they have shared in the events of recent #history, yet their voices are seldom heard & worse: their existence often ignored.
#China's communist regime has imposed #censorship to bar citizens from watching a film on the #Covid19lockdown in #Wuhan, the city known as 'ground zero' in the emergence of the #pandemic, says a report.
The producers of the #documentary Wuhan Lockdown which premiered globally on Dec. 30, 2023, were forced to flee the country to release the film, #RadioFreeAsia (#RFA) reported on Jan. 2.
Please enjoy learning from this 1974 #documentary about life in #Vietnam - a year before full national liberation. It shows the peoples' struggles against imperialism, reconstruction/rebuilding efforts & unity of the common peoples.
This family was divided before they became refugees. One bro served loyally for resistance army, one bro was a reluctant South VN government army reservist & other bro was a proud South VN airforce pilot. One daughter was left behind.
"For me, Muslim-Jewish coexistence isn’t an abstract concept. It’s not an ideal. It was an everyday reality. We lived it, we experienced it, we touched it, and therefore recalling the experience of the Jewish community in Iraq and my family enables me to think of a better future for our region. To counter the Zionist claim that Muslim Jewish Arab-Israeli hostility is preordained and that the two sides are doomed to live in perpetual conflict."
#ThisIsPalestine#documentary film (2017) follows #Riverdance founder, John McColgan, as he explores the impact of ongoing conflict & military occupation on the people who live there.
Voices of Palestinians, Israelis, former IDF, Israel officials & humanitarian workers are in this #DocFilm