{"id":6810,"date":"2018-09-27T23:33:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/2018\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2018-10-22T00:41:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T21:41:16","slug":"mans-tetis-cingishans-un-musu-afrika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/mans-tetis-cingishans-un-musu-afrika\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;My Father Genghis Khan&#8217; and &#8216;Our Africa'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Father Genghis Khan<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: Almira Safi<\/p>\n<p>The film depicts a daily life of contemporary Mongolia in the period of social and political changes.   Through the observation of several characters and circumstances of their lives, the film is trying to reveal the moment, where the old and the new world meet each other. The moment in which the centuries-old tradition of great Mongolia is shifted by the shaky culture of today, with its dreams, fears and desires, alien to the nomadic civilization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Africa<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: Alexander Markov<\/p>\n<p>For more than 35 years, the Soviets expand their geopolitical influence in Africa with humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology. Up until 1991, some of the country\u2019s best filmmakers were sent along to document the \u2018glorious advance\u2019 of socialism on the African continent. The Soviet Union broke apart and \u201csocialism\u201d became a dirty word. Russia, struggling with an economic crisis, lost all political interest in Africa. Still, thousands of kilometers of film footage remain. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Father Genghis Khan<br \/>\nDirector: Almira Safi<\/p>\n<p>The film depicts a daily life of contemporary Mongolia in the period of social and political changes.   Through the observation of several characters and circumstances of their lives, the film is trying to reveal the moment, where the old and the new world meet each other. The moment in which the centuries-old tradition of great Mongolia is shifted by the shaky culture of today, with its dreams, fears and desires, alien to the nomadic civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Our Africa<br \/>\nDirector: Alexander Markov<\/p>\n<p>For more than 35 years, the Soviets expand their geopolitical influence in Africa with humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology. Up until 1991, some of the country\u2019s best filmmakers were sent along to document the \u2018glorious advance\u2019 of socialism on the African continent. The Soviet Union broke apart and \u201csocialism\u201d became a dirty word. Russia, struggling with an economic crisis, lost all political interest in Africa. Still, thousands of kilometers of film footage remain. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9199,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions\/9199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2018.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}