Mangrove(2020)
Mangrove tells this true story of The Mangrove Nine, who clashed with London police in 1970. The trial that followed was the first judicial acknowledgment of behavior motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.
Mangrove tells this true story of The Mangrove Nine, who clashed with London police in 1970. The trial that followed was the first judicial acknowledgment of behavior motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.
A young woman returns with her son to an isolated beach on the pacific coast in southern Mexico to find peace with her ghosts.
Lurking in the mangroves just beyond the swamps at the edge of the coast, lives a shadowy figure hellbent on ruining everyone's good time. His method - A machete. His reasons - We may never know. Mangrove Slasher Pt. 2 is the story of a wild, partying group of friends and the man who is determined to finish them off one by one.
Madol Duwa (Mangrove Island) is a 1976 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Upasena Marasinghe. The film stars Ajith Jinadasa as Upali, a young rebellious youth who travels to a small island to get away from the restrictive society around him. The film is based on Martin Wickremasinghe's 1947 novel Madol Doova. It was a commercial success.
An immersive look at the life of Maíra, a woman who lives in a small seaside town where she works as a masseuse in a resort. She pends her days in a routine without great enthusiasm and prospects, dividing herself between a bland job, a distant husband and long walks around the neighborhood. One afternoon, she is faced with an event that reverberates inside Maíra as an impulse to review her life as a whole.
The Mangrove Nine trial resulted from conflict between the police and the Black community in Notting Hill that had escalated from the end of the 1960s onwards. The Mangrove case began when around 150 Black people protested against long-term police harassment of the popular Mangrove Restaurant in Ladbroke Grove. A documentary film, 'The Mangrove Nine' (directed and produced by Franco Rosso), was made in 1973, and includes interviews with the defendants recorded before the final verdicts. The Mangrove Nine film portrays interviews with the defendants recorded before the final verdicts were delivered at the trial, as well as contemporary comments from Ian Macdonald and others.