Walk-in Cinema: Opening Screenings

Wings of Takasago Giyutai
Futuru C. L. Tsai, 2021, Taiwan, 65', Mandarin with English subtitles. Courtesy of the artist 

A delicate meditation on memory and colonial history, Tsai’s film traces the stories of the Takasago Giyutai, an Indigenous Taiwanese military unit in the Second World War. Blending archival material with personal reflection, it confronts the tensions between duty, identity, and the erasure of marginalized histories, offering a poetic exploration of legacy and remembrance. 

Cornwallis Cloth
Tony T., Rebecca Goldstone, 2025, UK, 23', Barbadian (English) dialect, with English subtitles. © Sweet Patootee Arts 

Cornwallis Cloth reimagines overlooked Caribbean experiences in the Second World War through a vivid piece inspired by oral testimony and archival fragments. Set in a moonlit Barbados garden in 1942, the piece blends sound, performance, calypso, and satire to illuminate the 1942 U‑boat attack on the SS Cornwallis and wider Black Caribbean lives, exploring loyalty, freedom and emerging post-colonial identity with poetic and dramatic intensity. 

Cabascabo
Oumarou Ganda, 1968/69, Niger, 45', Zarma/French with English subtitles. Courtesy of Argos Films 

Drawing from his own experience, Ganda portrays a Nigerien soldier returning from the French Indochina War. His homecoming reveals a painful disconnect: the heroism he imagined is met with suspicion and hardship. Shot in a stark, neorealist style, the film exposes the disillusionment of African veterans whose sacrifices went unacknowledged. 

Indigènes (Days of Glory)
Rachid Bouchareb, 2006, France/Morocco/Belgium/Algeria, 123', Arabic/French with English subtitles. Courtesy of 3B Productions 

Bouchareb’s drama follows North African soldiers fighting for France in the Second World War. Promised equality but treated as second-class troops, they confront both the violence of war and the injustice of the colonial hierarchy. With powerful performances, Indigènes restores visibility to forgotten veterans whose sacrifices were long denied and ultimately sparked real political change.