THEME EXPLORATION

political revolution

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Clash
Clash
2016 · Mohamed Diab
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
1969 · Nagisa Oshima
Hibiscus Town
Hibiscus Town
1988 · Xie Jin
Nothing in Its Place
Nothing in Its Place
2024 · Burak Çevik
State of Fear
State of Fear
1990 · Janusz Kijowski
LA PALOMA
LA PALOMA
2026 · Lu Yuan-chi
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928 · Sergei Eisenstein
General Assembly
General Assembly
1960 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
My Lenin
My Lenin
1970 · Ritwik Ghatak
Power
Power
1986 · Sidney Lumet
The Little King
The Little King
1933 · Julien Duvivier
The Madonna and the Dragon
The Madonna and the Dragon
1990 · Samuel Fuller
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Chris Marker

Poetic meditation on history, memory, and politics through fragmented imagery and philosophical voice-over.

 Glauber Rocha Brazilian

Radical poetic cinema fusing myth, politics, and visceral imagery to challenge colonial oppression.

 Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union

His revolutionary montage technique and films like 'Battleship Potemkin' and 'October: Ten Days That Shook the World' directly celebrate and aestheticize political revolution as both subject and cinematic form.