REVOLUTION: This film shows the untold stories of the female FLN fighters in Algeria and their erasure from history after independence. And the promises of reforms and equality were hollow.
HOLBERG PRIZE WINNER: Achille Mbembe's books all revolve around how the people in post-colonial states are kept down and marginalized. But also about how democracy today does not work because threats, violence and murder keep people away from the public sphere, from debates, from being able to say what you think for fear of losing your job, being put in prison or killed.