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How Nelly Ben Hayoun is challenging the music and film industry

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Film & Animation

Her new documentary, informed by the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, explores what are the origins of knowledge. >

1 Oct 19
The 600: a story of courage and sacrifice

Design News > Art & Photography / Film & Animation

The film The 600 documents the bravery and self-sacrifice of 600 Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) soldiers during the Rwandan genocide. >

16 Jul 19
Photographer visually deconstructs the myth that being queer is un-African

Design News > Art & Photography

Celebratory, bright and vibrantly coloured, Limit(less) pictures what freedom can look like for the black queer body. >

11 Jun 18
Letters from a Birmingham Girl

Design News > Film & Animation

A documentary about intersectionality, identity and family. >

11 May 18
Big Time

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Film & Animation

Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG and master of promotion, is the subject of a new documentary, titled BIG TIME. >

17 Jan 18
This Migrant Business

Design News > African Design / Design Activism / Film & Animation

This short film by Kenyan artist and animator Ng'endo Mukii looks at the movement of African people to Europe from the point of view of a human trafficker. >

23 May 17
New film "Mixed Space" takes on flawed racial categories in South Africa

Q&A > African Design / Film & Animation

The colonial project mangled the way we see race, changing the way we see ourselves. >

22 May 17
Out on the town with young, South African creatives

Q&A > African Design / Creative Economy / Film & Animation

19 minutes in total, this documentary is all about collabs in SA’s burgeoning creative scene. >

16 May 17
The African dream in China

Design News > Design Activism / Film & Animation

A new documentary follows African people as they navigate the city of Guangzhou, China as people become more fearful of immigration. >

3 Apr 17
Cairo: Youth in resistance

Design News > African Design / Film & Animation

Director Selim El Sadek documents the youth who challenge the system through hip hop in Cairo, Egypt. >

28 Mar 17
The physicist who folds

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Physicist Robert lang left NASA to practice origami. Great Big Story tells us why. >

17 Mar 17
The Smog of the Sea

Design News > Design Activism / Film & Animation

There is no floating garbage patch of trash in the ocean, just a whole ocean littered with trash. >

21 Feb 17
Design That Heals

Design News > Film & Animation

Founder and director of Les centres GHESKIO Dr Jean-William Pape has dedicated his career to combating diarrheal diseases in Haiti. >

8 Feb 17
The Happy Film

Design News > Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration

The Happy Film is a feature-length documentary in which Stefan Sagmeister undergoes a series of self-experiments. >

8 Feb 17
Spying on a thief in this fascinating documentary

Design News > Film & Animation

Film student Anthony van der Meer made a documentary tracking his stolen phone and the thief who stole it >

21 Dec 16
Standing Rock: A documentary of resistance in the US

Design News > Film & Animation

A fracked oil pipeline sparks the Standing Rock Sioux Nation to lead the biggest indigenous protest in 100 years. >

11 Nov 16
Black Black Metal: The new wave of South African rock music

Design News > African Design / Music & Sound Design

This is South Africa’s burgeoning punk and metal scene in the heart of Soweto. >

18 Oct 16
My Africa Is: A documentary project that celebrates pop culture in Africa

Inside View > African Design / Film & Animation

Filmmaker Nosarieme Garrick discusses the making of her new documentary "Alternative Nairobi" with Nataal. >

13 Sep 16
Unbroken Ground: A food film by Patagonia

Design News > Design Activism / Film & Animation / Food Design

Outdoor clothing brand Patagonia turns its gaze to the food industry and launches a short film on the role food can play in solving the environmental crisis. >

3 Aug 16
Twenty Journey’s "The Journeymen" opens in Durban

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Made from the footage of their 24 000 kilometre adventure, the film promises to be both heart-breaking and beautiful. >

16 Jun 16
Photographer documents the last nomadic people of Nepal

Design News > Art & Photography

The Raute are Nepal’s last nomadic people nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas. This photo series captures their resistance to the modern word. >

19 May 16
Live From New York!

Design News > Film & Animation

“Live From New York!” documents the early years of "Saturday Night Live” and examines how this late-night show became an American institution. >

18 Jan 16
Bush of Evil: A look into the Cape’s temporary slum

Design News > Design Activism / Film & Animation

Blikkiesdorp residents are fighting to be heard by the government. This documentary follows their journey. >

9 Dec 15
"Miners Shot Down" wins Best Documentary at the International Emmy Awards

Design News > African Design / Film & Animation

Al Jazeera English's Witness documentary, "Miners Shot Down", has won Best Documentary at the International Emmy Awards. >

25 Nov 15

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