Third Camera – a Film Series
This film series brings together voices that speak from, and to, the Global South — a constellation of cinematic gestures bound by shared histories of struggle, exile, imagination, and renewal. Spanning continents and generations, these works trace how filmmakers from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have turned the camera into an instrument of liberation and a vessel of poetic resistance. Each film rekindles the spirit of Third World solidarity — that anticipatory politics which once dared to envision freedom not as possession, but as a collective horizon.
At a time when colonial logics resurface in new guises, this series looks back to those radical traditions of world-making that refused domination and imagined internationalism anew. It invites us to look again, to look otherwise, through the lens of a Third Camera: one unbound by nation or empire, attuned instead to the insurgent, borderless dream of the South.
Schedule
Mon, November 16, 4.30pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Dir. Raoul Peck
2024 | 1h 46m | English
The recovered work of Ernest Cole, apartheid South Africa’s first black freelance photographer, tells a profound story of artistic resistance, devastating exile, and ultimate reclamation.
Fri, November 21, 5pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Abu Ammar Is Coming
Dir. Naeem Mohaiemen
2016 | 6m | English
A short meditation on a 1980s photograph of Bangladeshi fighters in Beirut, evoking vanished moments of global revolutionary solidarity.
My Imaginary Country
Dir. Patricio Guzmán
2022 | 1h 23m | Spanish
Master documentarian Patricio Guzmán chronicles a new generation of Chilean youth as they lead a historic social uprising to collectively imagine a new future for their nation.
Thu, November 27, 5 pm
QFX Cinemas, Labim Mall
Bamako
Dir. Abderrahmane Sissako
2006 | 1h 55m | French & Bambara
In a sun-drenched courtyard in Bamako, daily life continues alongside an extraordinary courtroom drama: African citizens put international financial institutions on trial, charging them with the economic suffocation of a continent.
Fri, November 28, 6 pm
Alliance Française de Katmandou
Caméra d’Afrique / Twenty Years of African Cinema
Dir. Férid Boughedir
1983 | 1h 35m | French with English subtitles
Caméra d’Afrique surveys the first twenty years of African cinema, tracing how pioneering filmmakers reclaimed the camera from colonial legacies to craft stories of identity, struggle, and cultural self-determination.
Wed, December 3, 5pm
QFX Cinemas, Labim Mall
The Battle of Algiers
Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
1966 | 2h 1m | Arabic & French
This masterpiece of cinema recreates the brutal struggle for independence between Algerian FLN guerrillas and French colonial forces in the 1950s, presenting a morally complex portrait of urban warfare and revolution.
Fri, December 5, 3.30 pm
Alliance Française de Katmandou
Cuba, an African Odyssey
Dir. Jihan El-Tahri
2007 | 3h 10m | French
The untold story of Cuba’s support for African revolutions, one of the Cold War’s most vigorous contests over resources and ideology.
Sat, December 6, 3.30 pm
Nepal Art Council, Babamahal
Amma Ariyan
[Report to Mother]
Dir. John Abraham
1986 | 1h 55m | Malayalam, with English subtitles
After a young Naxalite’s death, a group of friends travel across Kerala to inform his mother, their journey unfolding into a layered exploration of memory, violence, grief, and revolution.
Wed, December 10, 5 pm
QFX Cinemas, Labim Mall
Sambizanga
Dir. Sarah Maldoror
1972 | 1h 42m | Portuguese, Kimbundu & Lingala, with English subtitles
In colonial Angola, Maria searches desperately for her husband, a revolutionary detained by the Portuguese, as she confronts the brutal realities of war and resistance.
Fri, December 12, 3.30 pm
Nepal Art Council, Babamahal
Reassemblage
Dir. Trinh Minh-ha
1982 | 40m | English
A radical rethinking of the ethnographic gaze, Trinh Minh-ha turns the camera toward everyday life in Senegal to question how we see, speak of, and construct the “other.”
Sat, December 13, 3.30pm
Nepal Art Council, Babamahal
Leila and the Wolves
Dir. Heiny Srour
1984 | 1h 30m | Arabic
This landmark feminist film reclaims the hidden history of Arab women’s resistance through an innovative mosaic of narrative and archive, centering their crucial role in Lebanese and Palestinian liberation struggles.