Rumbi Katedza: Transactions (Zimbabwe International Film Festival) 2022

Zimbabwe International Film Festival

Rumbi Katedza

Zimbabwe

Transactions

Documentary - 52 mins - 2022

Transactions by Rumbi Katedza is this year's opening night film at the Zimbabwe International Film Festival 2022, which runs for 14-17 September 2022.

Synopsis
Transactions is the story of Zimbabwean migration told through a family divided across three countries 

Alimata Ouedraogo: Graine - Festival Du Cinéma au Féminin - CINEF 2022

Festival Du Cinéma au Féminin - CINEF

Alimata Ouedraogo

Burkina Faso

Graine

 

Synopsis

Sybia struggles to bring her pregnancies to term, impossible to find the real reason for this handicap. Therefore, she and her husband decide to adopt a child. Her mother-in-law later kidnaps Sybia's daughter to have her excised. Regrettably, the girl dies during the process. As a result of this tragedy, there is an escalation of anger, hatred and in-fighting between the two families.

La dame Sybia, est une femme éprouvée par la difficulté de mener à terme ses grossesses. Impossible de trouver la vraie raison de ce handicap. Elle décide donc d’adopter un enfant avec le consentement de son époux. Sa belle-mère plus tard, kidnappe la fille de Sybia pour la faire exciser. Malheureusement, pendant l’acte, la fille décède. S’en suivent alors escalade de colère, haine et échauffourées entre les deux familles.

Bio

After a degree in marketing communication and public relations, Alimata Ouedraogo began an acting career in 2003 and played in several films. In 2009, she created Star Events, her communication company, followed by several other activities, she undertook filmmaking and audiovisual production, during which she directed her first feature film entitled Graine.

Après une licence en communication marketing et relations publiques, Alimata Ouedraogo commence dès 2003 une carrière d’actrice et joue dans plusieurs films dont Ouaga Zoodo, Un fantôme dans la ville, Wibdo ou le sacrilège de Zida Boubakar Sidnaba, Sofia, L’or des Younga, Code Phoenix de Boubakar Diallo… En 2009, elle crée sa structure de communication Star Events. Après plusieurs activités, elle se lance dans la production cinématographie et audiovisuelle d’où elle produit et réalise son premier long métrage intitulé Graine.

Jihan El-Tahri: ‘Complexifying Restitution’ - Berlin Biennale 2022

Jihan El-Tahri: ‘Complexifying Restitution’ Berlin Biennale 2022

https://12.berlinbiennale.de/artists/jihan-el-tahri/

Image: Jihan El-Tahri, Complexifying Restitution, 2022, video, color, sound, approx. 15′; text, video still © Jihan El-Tahri

“Jihan El-Tahri is a filmmaker and visual artist. Her practice deals with materiality and the moving image. Working primarily with installation art, she often engages with the interstices between official history and memory in an attempt to reinterpret the moments of our history of which no traces have been left behind and to propose a new reading and alternative voice from a Global South perspective.
 In ‘Complexifying Restitution’ (2022), El-Tahri invites the viewer into the spacetime of a project that brings together archive researchers, artists, and filmmakers to interpret, rethink, and reappropriate the archive.” (Joud Halawani Al-Tamimi)

Also see:
From Restitution to Repair Conference
https://12.berlinbiennale.de/program/from-restitution-to-repair/

Rosine Mbakam: Les deux visages d'une femme Bamiléké | The Two Faces of a Bamiléké - Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bxl

Rosine Mbakam

Les deux visages d'une femme Bamiléké

The Two Faces of a Bamiléké

76 minutes - 2016 - VO +SRT FR +SRT EN
Published 26 August 2022 - Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bxl
Streaming on demand : https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bamileke

Ce film raconte le retour d’une jeune femme dans son pays d’origine, le Cameroun, ses retrouvailles avec sa mère, retrouvailles construites autour des espaces revisités de leurs deux vécus. Deux parcours différents qui se croisent autour des traditions qui fondent leurs deux personnalités. A la recherche des sentiments enfouis, des histoires, son histoire. Donner vie aux voix endormies dans le silence, éclairer les visages des femmes de sa communauté qui l’ont construites pour faire jaillir d’autres couleur de leur visage.
Belgique
Production : Tândor productions
Co-production : CBA, GSARA

My name is Rosine Mbakam, from Cameroon where I grew up and lived until 27 years old according to tradition. In 2007, I left to continue my studies in Belgium. It was the first time leaving my country. My mother’s name is Mâ Brêh in Bamiléké, she has always lived in Cameroon. She grew up in the maquis where her family, as many others, fled French colonial repression. She was married at 18 years old to a man introduced to her by her parents. The film is a face-to-face that examines and and poses questions regarding the choices of two women. Two generations face-to-face, two women who share their intimate selves, their pain, their desires.

The film recounts the return of a young woman to her native country, Cameroon. A reunion with her mother, a reunion constructed around the revisited spaces of their two lives. Two different journeys that intersect around traditions that are underpin their two personalities. In search of buried sentiments, histories, her history. Giving life to latent voices in the silence, illuminating the faces of women in her community that formed her, in which the other colors of their faces emerge. 

African Diasporas. USA-Ghana. Nana Mensah: Queen of Glory - what it's like to be a child of the diaspora - interview with Janet A. Leigh on Digital Spy

African Diasporas. USA-Ghana

Nana Mensah: Queen of Glory

 - what it's like to be a child of the diaspora -

Interview with Janet A. Leigh on Digital Spy

I think what's interesting is how much Sarah, the character, is attempting to define herself outside of her culture – you know, the culture she was raised in; the neighborhood she was raised in. 

She did that, and got to exercise who she was out in the world, and then bring that raw form back to her place of origin. 

I think the thing is, we want to be able to define ourselves, right? We are so tired of having the world define us. -- Nana Mensah

Comedy - USA - 75min - 2021
Source: digitalspy.com - 26 Aug 2022. Janet A. Leigh

Synopsis (digitalspy.com)
Queen of Glory follows the story of Sarah, who must juggle familial and cultural expectations during one of the hardest times in any adult's life, the death of her mother. With this delicately humorous story, Nana tackles the difficulties first immigrants feel as they struggle to straddle two worlds, asking two very important questions: What do we owe them? Versus what do we owe ourselves?

Read entire interview at digitalspy.com https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a40956357/queen-of-glory-nana-mensah-interview/

Also see: African News Magazine Show with Nana Mensah