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 17, 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, 5pm
Alliance Française de Katmandou
Twenty Years of African Cinema
Dir. Férid Boughedir
1983 | 1h 35m | French
Recalls the first 20 years of the new auteur cinema of sub-Saharan Africa, which bears witness to an indefatigable—and still-enduring—drive for self-expression.
Fri, November 28, 5pm
Alliance Française de Katmandou
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.