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film profile], her Sundance World Cinema Documentary Competition entry, Nielsson shows that in politics, a happy ending is really just the beginning. And that democracy needs to be built, steadily, as for some, the old ways will always be much more appealing.
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President, focusing on the events leading up to 2018’s supposedly “free and transparent” elections, Mugabe might be gone – at least until he calls for an impromptu press conference, starved of the spotlight – but his collaborators aren’t, and while they talk a different talk, they walk the same walk. That seems to be the point of the Movement for Democratic Change s leader
A doc whose topicality feels like a double-edged sword.
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The evidence of voting fraud during Zimbabwe’s 2018 election piles up in Camilla Nielsson’s documentary.
The 2018 presidential elections in Zimbabwe, fought between former vice president Emmerson “the crocodile” Mnangagwa and the bright young opposition candidate Nelson Chamisa, were a dismal affair rife with election fraud, if you follow the persuasive arguments mounted by documaker Camilla Nielsson in
President. Chamisa, a 40-year-old lawyer running on an anti-corruption, pro-employment platform, is obviously the people’s candidate, but can his team buck the dirty tricks and ballot-stuffing of his adversary? It’s a through-the-looking-glass moment in history that can’t help but echo the recent election furor in you-know-what-country.
President Review: Camilla Nielsson s Extraordinary Documentary Traces the Alleged Theft of an Election President Review: Camilla Nielsson s Extraordinary Documentary Traces the Alleged Theft of an Election
The Danish docmaker follows up 2014 s Democrats with another essential chapter in Zimbabwe s long, endlessly sidetracked road to democracy.
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“Democrats,” Camilla Nielsson’s superb 2014 documentary about the tortuous construction of Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution, was most riveting as a snapshot of a country still trying democracy on for size, wary of what it saw in the mirror. Studying the troubled coalition government that paired president Robert Mugabe’s long-ruling ZANU-PF party with the more liberal opposition of Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, Nielsson’s film posited any progress at all as fragile, easily undone by a volatile political system: Audiences might