Movies: Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

  • 2019
    The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores

    The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores (2019)

    The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores

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    The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is the most translated Equatoguinean writer, but he had to flee the country in 2011, after starting a hunger strike denouncing the ...

    The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores
  • 2015
    One Day I Saw 10,000 Elephants

    One Day I Saw 10,000 Elephants (2015)

    One Day I Saw 10,000 Elephants

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    The octogenarian Angono Mba recalls the expedition in which he worked as porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán who, between 1944 and 1946, traveled through Spanish Guinea documenting life in the colony as he obsessively searched f...

    One Day I Saw 10,000 Elephants