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Secrets Behind the Wall (1965) directed by Kōji Wakamatsu

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Modernist British film poster for From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) dir. Ingmar Bergman.

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Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994)

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An Evening in Paris (1967)

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The Fifth Seal (Az ötödik pecsét) | 1976 | Zoltán Fábri | Hungarian People's Republic

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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life | 1972 | Ettore Scola | Italy/France

Film poster by Franciszek Starowieyski

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Eartha Kitt photographed by Carl Van Vechten, c. 1954

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Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)

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Den-en ni shisu (Pastoral: To Die in the Country) | Shūji Terayama | 1974 | Japan

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De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another) | 1974 | Sara Gómez | Cuba

De Cierta Manera is a film created by legendary Black Cuban female filmmaker Sara Gómez. It mixes documentary-style footage with a fictional story centered around the Las Yaguas slums in 1950's Havana; where the majority of the population is made up of Black people, Mulatos, and poor Whites. It demonstrates how the changing of material conditions, like the development of new neighbourhoods, doesn't immediately change the behaviours and attitudes of a given population.

The fictional aspect of the story focuses on Yolanda a white school teacher with communist ideals who has become employed at a school in Las Yaguas, and her Mulato boyfriend Mario who is a resident of Las Yaguas; and whose interest lays more in his gender, ethnic/racial origins, and neighbourhood loyalties rather than in the working class solidarity pushed by the new revolutionary Cuba.

Their relationship is indicative of social struggles in Cuban society. This includes the machismo of Mario with its origins in western European Spanish society, but also the patriarchal attitudes that have been preserved in the Afro-Cuban fraternity, Abakuá, which he is part of. It also includes the racist attitudes still harbored by Yolanda towards Mario and her Afro-Cuban pupils, despite her apparent revolutionary convictions. Portraying the idea that for the Cuban Revolution to persevere, prejudice; whether racist, sexist, or class based must also be tackled.

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Model Shop | 1969 | Jacques Demy | United States

Film poster by Franciszek Starowieyski

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Viet and Nam (2024 🇻🇳), directed by Truong Minh Quy

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Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, 1924)

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The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

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De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another) | 1974 | Sara Gómez | Cuba

De Cierta Manera is a film created by legendary Black Cuban female filmmaker Sara Gómez. It mixes documentary-style footage with a fictional story centered around the Las Yaguas slums in Havana where the majority of the population is made up of Black people, Mulatos, and poor Whites. It demonstrates how the changing of material conditions, like in developing the neighbourhood, doesn't immediately change the behaviours and attitudes of a given population.

The fictional aspect of the story focuses on Yolanda a white school teacher with communist ideals who has become employed at a school in Las Yaguas, and her Mulato boyfriend Mario who is a resident of Las Yaguas; and whose interest lays more in his gender, ethnic/racial origins, and neighbourhood loyalties rather than in the working class solidarity pushed by the new revolutionary Cuba.

Their relationship is indicative of social struggles in Cuban society. This includes the machismo of Mario with its origins in western European Spanish society, but also the patriarchal attitudes that have been preserved in the Afro-Cuban fraternity, Abakuá, which he is part of. It also includes the racist attitudes still harbored by Yolanda towards Mario and her Afro-Cuban pupils, despite her apparent revolutionary convictions. Portraying the idea that for the Cuban Revolution to persevere, prejudice; whether racist, sexist, or class based must also be tackled.

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Zerkalo aka The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

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The Land (1970 🇪🇬) directed by Youssef Chahine