Claudine Shenge Ndimbira: Lend me your voice - 365Rwanda

Claudine Shenge Ndimbira

Lend me your voice

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Film Screening 3 February 2023 365Rwanda
https://365rwanda.com/event/lend-me-your-voice-film-screening/ 

Also see links regarding the film:

Lend Me Your Voice I Generation Africa I ARTE.tv Documentary

Description

People tell stories, but when it comes to theirs, they either lose their memory or decide to shut up." Born in 1994 in the Democratic Republic of Congo,  Akili Nadege had to leave her homeland for Rwanda, and then Burundi. She's suffered prison, torture, a murdered father and a torn homeland, and suffered isolation and loneliness. In this intimate documentary essay, the director Claudine Ndimbira had the young woman tell her testimony through a group of readers. These men and women who know neither Akili nor her past, but they will develop with her, over the course of reading her story, a deep bond of empathy. 

 

 

Screen.Time 2022 - Q&A with Claudine Shenge Ndimbira moderated by Benjamin Rost

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Content | Contenu:

Marwa Zein

Mouvement #Mêmepaspeur 

Le Festival Massimadi 

- Claudine Ndimbira

- Wanuri Kahiu

- Kis keya

- Susanne Serres

- Omayra Issa

Fatou Kandé Senghor 

Selma Bargach

Victoria Thomas

Amina Weira

Amina Abdoulaye Mamani

Enquête d'Afrique - L'Afrique au féminin

- Nadège Batou

- Siam Marley

Marwa Zein (Sudan)

Cineuropa.org Review: Khartoum Offside by Vladan Petkovic

https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/368041/

#Mêmepaspeur au Fespaco : et après ? par Cinewax Assoc 23 mar 2019

https://cinewax.org/blogs/media/memepaspeur-au-fespaco-et-apres

Le Festival Massimadi : festival des films et des arts LGBTQ+ afro - 11e édition

http://www.massimadi.ca/

She, 2015, Rwanda

Réalisé par Claudine Ndimbira

Présenté en version originale kinyarwanda avec sous-titres en anglais.

Durée : 12 min 14

Rafiki, 2018, Kenya

Réalisé par Wanuri Kahiu

Présenté en version originale en anglais et swahili, avec sous-titres en anglais.

Durée : 1 h 23

Panel

Rencontrez les réalisatrices Kis keya et Susanne Serres lors d’un panel animé par Omayra Issa.

Fatou Kandé Senghor 

TV5Monde Afrique

26 mars

La réalisatrice, photographe et productrice sénégalaise Fatou Kandé Senghor a bataillé pour se faire une place dans le monde très masculin du cinéma africain.

https://www.facebook.com/tv5mondeafrique/videos/fatou-kandé-senghor-africaine-cinéaste-et-militante/2540816952612333/

Selma Bargach parle de son film "Indigo" et de ses projets.  5 mar 2019. Source: Nadia Ouiddar - https://lematin.ma/express/2019/selma-bargach-parle-film-indigo-projets/311773.html

Victoria Thomas

Interview with Victoria Thomas, producer for British outfit Polkadot Factory and selected for the 2019 Emerging Producers programme. 5 Rarch 2019. Source: cineuropa.org - https://cineuropa.org/en/interview/368974/

Amina Weira: Interview. 2 mars 2019.

Source: Clapnoir - http://www.clapnoir.org/spip.php?article1217

Amina Abdoulaye Mamani

Une autre facette de la vie du poète et écrivain nigérien porté à l’écran par sa fille

27 fev 2019. Source: http://www.clapnoir.org/spip.php?article1209 

Enquête d'Afrique - L'Afrique au féminin : Nadège Batou et Siam Marley

(Re)Discover Claudine Ndimbira

(Re)Discover Claudine Ndimbira

Updated to include: Profile of Claudine Ndimbira from Women's Voices Now

Ndimbira Claudine (Shenge Intare) is a young Rwandan female filmmaker residing in Kigali. At the age of 15, she began writing stories. In 2012, she began taking short courses in digital film making at the Kwetu Film Institute after high school. In March 2013, she participated in the animation workshop at the Luxor International Film Festival. In July 2013 she wrote and directed her first short film called “My mother, My hero” in a workshop called Girls Make Movies, during the Rwanda Film Festival.

From March-August 2014, as coordinator for the short film project “Shed Light on Your Rights,” she produced two fiction films, “Impuruza” and “She,” and directed another film called “SHE.” Ndimbira has participated in several workshops by the Europäisches Filmzentrum Babelsberg (EFB) in partnership with Kwetu Film Institute, where she directed her first short documentary Hora Mama.

Hora Mama was inspired by the complex reality for poor mothers. A mother can care so deeply about her daughter that she prostitutes herself. A mother can thrive in a life that she does not want her children to live. A mother can be broken but never cry. Ndimbira has developed a relationship with Mahoro, the mother in “Hora Mama,” and finds that the story of her struggle has forever affected her understanding of reality for women. The film may be viewed at: https://www.womensvoicesnow.org/films/hora-mama-dont-cry-mother

Source: https://www.womensvoicesnow.org/films/hora-mama-dont-cry-mother

Image: Maisha Lab

Claudine Ndimbira's experimental documentary Lend Me Your Voice, was released in 2022. Excerpt of the description of the film: In this intimate documentary essay, the director Claudine Ndimbira had the young woman tell her testimony through a group of readers. These men and women who know neither Akili nor her past, but they will develop with her, over the course of reading her story, a deep bond of empathy.

This article was originally posted as:

Claudine Ndimbira : Support her film project “Living like a shadow” about the LGBTQ community in Rwanda

Claudine Ndimbira had this to say about the film project:

With this project “Living like a shadow” I want to give the voice to LGBTQ community members in Rwanda to tell their stories, what they have been through, what they wish their lives could be but also to the society so that they say what is the reason why they think being gay is a problem to them.
Source: http://creativerwanda.com/interview-with-ndimbira-claudine-shenge/ NO LONGER ACTIVE

Synopsis

“Living like a shadow” is a 90 minutes film that will follow the lives of 3 characters. Even if some have similar issues or experiences – like living a double love life due to what the society expects from them or being judged often, each one of them has a unique story.

Excerpt from Director’s Statement

I want to make this film to shed light on that issue so that it can start a conversation. People fear what they don’t understand or what they refuse to understand but at the end of the day the solution is to talk about it and react positively.

Rwanda Film Festival 2013 : Our Mothers, Our Heroes

Rwanda Film Festival 2013

Our Mothers, Our Heroes

Our Mothers, Our Heroes: Opening with Mama Africa, a documentary in tribute to Miriam Makeba (1932-2008)

Is our world misogynist? Is our perception of women preventing them from making an impact on society? What does it mean to be a female leader? Often relegated to play lesser roles in society, separated by class, access to education, gender roles and sexuality, women have been victimized, stereotyped and marginalized in the real world, as well as in the world of cinema. However, women have always played a critical role in changing societies and it is time for them to be recognized.

The role of women in our society has been mainly defined by men, and cinema is no exception. Though women have appeared in cinema for decades, taking on a variety of forms, from brilliantly layered characters to stereotypical victims, women were not the ones creating their images. Until now, men have told their stories from their own perspective.

Rwanda Film Festival’s 2013 theme, “Our Mothers, Our Heroes” serves as a unique platform to feature recent cinematographic creations, directed, written, or produced by women and creations that deal directly with the issue of women’s roles in society. Films of all genre and feature length will engage the audience in the deconstruction of clichés and stereotypes surrounding the role of women within our society. This year’s selection will provide a multiplicity of representations of women: resistant, resilient, emancipated and committed to writing their own pages of the history books.

(Source: Rwanda Film Festival programme) 

Updated to include: 

She is my mother, a short documentary film made by six girls in six hours during the workshop called Girls Make Movies organized at the Rwanda Film Festival.

Claudine Ndimbira Shenge was part of the Girls Make Movies workshop during which she directed the film My Mother My Hero in 2013.

 

African Girls Make Movies Too

"I plan to be a professional camera woman, I will go back to my community and teach my colleagues how to make movies" says Aishah Umuhoza, a young Rwandan participant in the One Minute Jr. workshop. 

The initiative is part of “The World Cup in my Village” project sponsored by UNICEF in collaboration with community and governmental partners in Zambia and Rwanda.

The film project in the Rubavu District of Rwanda entails a five-day intensive workshop during which the students learn to write a script, direct, shoot, and edit a one-minute film, as well as act in the production. The main objective is to provide the students with the skills to report on the important issues that they are dealing with in their communities and then share them with the international community.

Similarly, in Mongu, Zambia, the radio production project gives the young participants the opportunity to express their concerns. The audio reports are broadcast on local, national and international radio stations. In addition, video reports of the initiative are posted on various websites, notably, the Children’s Radio Foundation, who is a partner in the initiative.

As South Africa is host of the 2010 World Cup, “The World Cup in my Village” serves another important function as it provides a venue for young people who live in villages without electricity and broadcasting services to follow the tournament. Giant inflatable out-door screens and projectors are set in place for the occasion. To promote awareness building, UNICEF-produced public service announcements regarding education, health and children protection are part of the programming.

As evident in the encouraging words of Aishah Umuhoza above, several girls have enthusiastically embraced the media-training project. A selection of the one-minute films produced during the film workshop is posted on the "unicefworldcup’s channel" on YouTube, among which are works by Dancille Nyiranteziryayo: A Better Future and Mamy Manirakiza: Raising Awareness.

View the One Minute Jr films @ the unicefworldcup’s channel

Updated to include: She is my mother, a short documentary film made by six girls in six hours during a workshop called Girls Make Movies organized at the Rwanda Film Festival in 2013.

Claudine Ndimbira Shenge was part of the Girls Make Movies workshop during which she directed the film My Mother My Hero in 2013, a heartbreaking story of a soon-to-be mother, and the young child who saves the notes written to her in her memory: my mother, my hero.