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Hollywood is not cinema. It is one cinema among hundreds. This section opens every door, one country at a time.

— The World Cinema Desk

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By Country

Guided entry points into every significant national cinema.

National Cinemas

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New Waves

Complete treatments of the major film movements.

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Undiscovered

Genuinely great films from the cinemas the world has overlooked.

Overlooked Masterpieces

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Definitive profiles of the great filmmakers and their complete visions.

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Undiscovered

Undiscovered · Jun 19, 2026

Black Girl (1966): The Masterpiece the Algorithm Never Suggests

Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl is a foundational masterpiece of postcolonial cinema — and it remains absent from most "greatest films" lists. A case for its centrality.

By Republic of Cinema Editorial Team·Jun 19, 2026

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One country. One movement. Every week.

A new national cinema guide, auteur profile, or undiscovered film every Friday.

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