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03 February 2022

Suzannah Mirghani: Al-Sit (Sudan) - 32 Annual Cascade Festival of African Films 2022 - Women Filmmakers Week


Suzannah Mirghani
Al-Sit
Sudan
Fiction - 20min - 2021


Synopsis
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman living abroad. Nafisa’s grandmother Al-Sit, the powerful village matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa’s future. But can the young girl choose for herself? A compassionate story from Sudan about women—both powerless and powerful—exploring opposing ends of the social chain and how these roles might be changing in a modernizing world.

Bio
Sudanese-Russian scriptwriter, researcher and independent filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani is based in Qatar.

 

32 Annual Cascade Festival of African Films 2022: Featuring Women Filmmakers Week

 
32th Annual Cascade Festival of African Films

A Celebration of Black History Month
At Portland Community College
4 February - 5 March 2022

The Cascade Festival of African Films
is held in Portland, Oregon USA. The closing week of the festival features Women Filmmakers Week, which includes retrospectives, tributes and recently released short and feature films:

The Cascade Festival of African Films shows us Africa through the eyes of Africans, rather than a vision of Africa packaged for Western viewers. The films celebrate Africa’s achievements, expose its failures, and reveal possibilities for a hopeful future. Although the films cannot represent an entire continent, we hope to encourage American viewers to become interested in and study African cultures. Text and image source: Cascade Festival of African Films. Festival poster by Jordin Garcia Portillo

 
The 2020 lineup of films with hyperlinks to Women Filmmakers Week selections
on the African Women in Cinema Blog

 
Suzannah Mirghani: Al-Sit (2021)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Sudan
March 5

Nantenaina Lova: Aza Kivy/ Morning Star
Madagascar
February 17

Amy Jephta: Barakat (2020)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
South Africa
March 4

Françoise Ellong: Buried (2020)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Cameroon
March 5

Fehinti Balogun: Can I Live? (2021)
Nigeria
February 16

Nabil Ayouch: Casablanca Beats (2021)
Morocco
February 5

Amir Ramses: Curfew (2021)
Egypt
February 26

Ephraim Asili: Diaspora Suite and Other Short Films (2010-17)
Diaspora
February 12

AJ Wone: Diatribe: From the Village to the Streets (2020)
USA
February 4

Abdoulaye Dao, Hervé Eric Lengani: Duga / The Scavengers (2019)
Burkina Faso
February 19

Jessica Beshir: Faya Dayi (2021)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Ethiopia
March 3

Moussa Diop, Thomas Grand: Golden Fish, African Fish (2018)
Senegal
February 17

Joao Ribeiro: Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret (2020)
Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal
February 26

Philippe Lacôte: La Nuit Des Rois / Night of the Kings (2020)
Cote d'Ivoire
February 19

Mahamet Saleh Haroun: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (2021)
Chad
February 18

Amleset Muchie: Min Alesh? (2021)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Ethiopia
March 5

Michel K. Zongo: No Gold for Kalsaka (2019)
Burkina Faso
February 24

Mary-Noël Niba: Partir? (2019)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Cameroon
February 10

Maimouna Jallow: Tales of the Accidental City (2021)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Kenya
March 5

Ephraim Asili: The Inheritance (2020)
USA
February 12

Shola Amoo: The Last Tree (2019)
Nigeria, UK
February 11

Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri: This is My Desire / Eyimofe (2020)
Nigeria
February 5

Amil Shivji: Tug of War (2021)
Tanzania
February 25

Elija Hasan: Who We Carry (2021)
USA
February 4

 

02 February 2022

Ciné-Doc présente Amandine Gay: Une histoire à soi (A story of one's own) sur l’adoption internationale | about international adoption

Amandine Gay
Une histoire à soi (A story of one's own)
France 
100mins - Documentary - 2021



Ciné-Doc présente «Une histoire à soi», le dernier documentaire de la réalisatrice afro-féministe Amandine Gay. Projections: vendredi 4 février à 20h, au cinéma Rex 2, à Bienne; dimanche 13 février à 20h, au Royal, à Tavannes.

Ciné-Doc presents Une histoire à soi (A story of one's own), the latest documentary by the afro-feminist filmmaker Amandine Gay. Screening Friday 4 February at 20h, at the Rex 2 cinema in Bienne, Sunday 13 February at 20h at the Royal in Tavannes.

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La cinéaste, elle-même née sous X, dévoile, par l’intime, la réalité de l’adoption internationale dans un film aussi puissant que nécessaire.
 
"Anne-Charlotte, Joohee, Céline, Niyongira, Mathieu ont entre 25 et 52 ans. Originaires du Brésil, du Sri Lanka, du Rwanda, de Corée du Sud ou d’Australie, les protagonistes du film partagent une identité commune : celle de personnes adoptées. Séparé·es dès l’enfance de leurs familles et pays d’origine, ils et elles ont grandi dans des familles françaises. Leurs récits de vie nous entraînent dans une histoire intime et à la fois politique de l’adoption internationale."

En collaboration avec Association Espace-A, Association adopte.ch, Collectif afroféministe CABBAK.
 
The filmmaker herself born under X, reveals through personal experiences in a film that is at the same time powerful and necessary, the reality of international adoption.
"Anne-Charlotte, Joohee, Céline, Niyongira, Mathieu are between the ages of 25 and 52. Their birthplaces from Brazil, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, South Korea, Australia, the protagonists of the film share a identity in common: that of a person that was adopted.
 
Separated from their families and country of origin as a child, they grew up in French families. Their lived experiences take us into a story at the same time intimate and political, of international adoption.
In collaboration with Association Espace-A, Association adopte.ch, Collectif afroféministe CABBAK.

01 February 2022

Recent films. Amelia Umuhire: Settling (and audio documentary "Innocent")

Amelia Umuhire

Settling
Rwanda
12:21 - Documentary - 2021
 
Innocent, description of audio documentary below
 
Al Jazeera English launches Africa Direct, a distinctive series of compelling and immersive short documentaries produced and directed by all-African filmmaking talent.

In Kigali’s School of Architecture, Professor Josephine Malonza inspires her students to take a people-centred approach to "informal housing". She is part of a big urbanisation project in Rwanda’s capital and wants to see more community engagement in housing.

In Settling, by filmmaker Amelia Umuhire, Malonza shares her story and ideas and takes us on a trip to Kigali’s oldest urban settlement. Hers is a life of moving countries, challenging gender roles, and finding life affirmation after a personal tragedy made her reflect on the lessons of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Amelia Umuhire is a Rwandan filmmaker and artist. She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning web series Polyglot, the short film Mugabo and the Prix-Europa nominated sound piece Vaterland. Her work has been screened internationally. She is currently a head writer on a TV show for German broadcaster ZDF.
 
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/africa-direct/2021/12/21/settling-an-architect-in-rwanda
 
 
 
ALSO READ ABOUT RECENT AUDIO DOCUMENTARY BY AMELIA UMUHIRE: INNOCENT
 
Amelia Umuhire tells the story of Innocent Seminega – her father – as a young student, teacher, husband and parent up until his death at the hands of Hutu extremists in Rwanda in 1994. Tracing her family history as she addresses him, she weaves together threads from his love of linguistics, his romance with her mother, parenthood, and life lived amidst violent conflict – until unfurling her own story of her childhood and movement between countries – critiquing the white gaze which might try and frame her family’s story.

Innocent is an intimate portrait that resists the narrative canon that the West imposes on recent Rwandan history.


Source: https://agenda.brussels//en/525715/amelia-umuhire-innocent
 

26 January 2022

Recent Films. Vigil Chime: The Touched One

Recent Films. Vigil Chime: The Touched One

 
"...I wanted to tell a story about forgiveness. That a grave wrong could be done to someone and have her recover to forgive the very people that had wronged her. That is powerful."---Vigil Chime
 
Vigil Chime
USA (Nigeria)
The Touched One
2022 - Feature - Horror/Supernatural
 
Synopsis
The Touched One follows Chinaza, a woman anointed by a sacred ram to do good deeds, as she goes in search of a gang of men who did her wrong in order to correct them of their evil ways. One morning, Chinaza and two others board a local bus. Four men posing as passengers promptly abduct and take them deep into the woods for blood sacrifice. Chinaza is resigned to her fate when a mysterious ram appears and sets her free. Grateful to be alive, she pets it. Safe at home, she discovers that the hand with which she pet the ram corrects anyone she touches of their sinful ways. She is thus convinced this is the reason she is the sole survivor of the tragedy. Thereafter, she determines to find the kidnappers to guide them onto a righteous path. The families of the two other victims who did not make it that day have other ideas to exact their own brand of street justice on the men.

About Vigil Chime
Vigil Chime is a Nigerian-American screenwriter, director and novelist. She was the recipient of the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship in 2017.
 

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