‘Roads of Fire’ Director Nathaniel Lezra on His Migrant Crisis Doc and Why Zohran Mamdani Is ‘Representative of Our Hopes’

Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani review – can you really rehabilitate Idi Amin?

The anthropologist and father of New York’s mayor-elect offers a revisionist view of modern Ugandan historyChildren of Ugandan Indians are having a bit of a moment. Electropop boasts Charlie XCX; statecraft, the Patels: Priti the shadow foreign secretary, Kash the FBI boss. And while the ones who go into politics have tended to be conservative, we now have a counterexample in Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who clinched the New York may…

‘Roads of Fire’ Director Nathaniel Lezra on His Migrant Crisis Doc and Why Zohran Mamdani Is ‘Representative of Our Hopes’

While making his documentary “Roads of Fire,” director Nathaniel Lezra found himself celebrating the success of the film while also balancing fear for his main subject, Maria Pascal. “We won the audience award at Brooklyn Film Festival but I really explicitly told her, ‘I’m worried about you,” said Lezra in a conversation for Variety Screening […]