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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-15T07:24:05.000Z",
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    "Camden28",
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    "https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine",
    "blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine",
    "letterboxd.com/film/sambizanga/",
    "letterboxd.com/film/sankaras-orphans/",
    "www.doesthedogdie.com/media/265848",
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  "textContent": "submitted by Camden28 to movies\n10 points | 2 comments\nhttps://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine\n\nIMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Blorptube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.\n\n# Sambizanga\n\n> Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after the Feb 4 barracks attack in Angola, 1961. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is.\n\n> directed by Sarah Maldoror and written by Maldoror, Mário Pinto de Andrade, and Maurice Pons, based on the 1961 novella The Real Life of Domingos Xavier by working class sympathetic settler José Luandino Vieira.\n\n> Sambizanga was the first feature film produced in Angola and by any Lusophone African country. Maldoror was the first woman to make a feature film in Africa.[1]\n\nThis hits a lot of firsts, but for me, mainly, I’m surprised we didn’t show an Angolan film here\n\n# Les Orphelins De Sankara\n\n> Thomas Sankara came to power in Burkina Faso in 1983, with the promise of a revolutionary government that would transform the West African country. To help build the revolution, he sent 600 children — many orphans from rural areas — to be educated in Cuba. But after Sankara’s assassination, the children were stranded. The last would only return to Burkina Faso in 2005. SANKARA’S ORPHANS tells their stories through interviews with some of the 600, along with archival footage of their lives on Cuba’s Isle of Youth — where both Sankara and Fidel Castro came to visit. Along with their education, the children worked in the fields and received weapons training. This, combined with their idealism, frightened the new Burkina Faso regime, which worried they might return and take up arms\n\nWe’ll start at 5:00 PM EST on Blorptube, right here:\nblorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine\nBe there, comrades!\n\n# Letterboxd:\n\nletterboxd.com/film/sambizanga/\nletterboxd.com/film/sankaras-orphans/\n\n# Doesthedogdie.com links:\n\nwww.doesthedogdie.com/media/265848\n\n# CWs for the films (excluding spoilers?)\n\nwww.unconsentingmedia.org\nwww.imdb.com\n\n# Sambizanga:\n\nSex Et Nudity: ?\n\nnone listed\n\nViolence Et Gore: Moderate\n\nColonial Police Brutality and Torture There are multiple scenes late in the film in which a man is brutally assaulted by police during an interrogation. He is slapped, kicked, and a drinking glass is broken in his face. Such brutality would lead people like him to death\n\nProfanity: ?\n\nnone listed\n\nSubstance Abuse: ?\n\nnone listed\n\nFrightening Et Intense Scenes: **Intense**\n\nColonial Police Brutality and Torture A man is forcibly taken from his home by police officers, and hit with batons as his wife cries for the officers to stop. He is physically assaulted further in the back of the police vehicle.\n\n# Les Orphelins De Sankara\n\n??? (nothing listed)\n\n# Sources for movies:\n\nSambizanga: tankie.tube/w/jnfYP8oCjW91k53xpY4aYL\nSankara’s Orphans: tankie.tube/w/ixBa3q7FaAwKGesfcm2yRV",
  "title": "Pan African Sunday Kino Lagniappe: 4:30 pm EST/ 9:30 pm UTC/10:30 pm CET/4:30 am BJT Angolan anticolonial drama Sambizanga (1972) and Burkina Faso postcolonial documentary Sankara’s Orphans (2019)"
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