Durban — When we’re first introduced to computer whiz Zaid (Ronak Patani) in the opening scene of Sara Blecher’s “Mayfair,” he’s playing Robin Hood in an east African refugee camp—distributing sacks of food that have been left to rot in an aid group’s warehouse. That charitable impulse gets him canned, the first sign that an ambiguous morality pervades the world of Blecher’s latest feature.
As the action picks up in Johannesburg, Zaid has returned to the teeming immigrant neighborhood of Mayfair, where he lives in the shadow of his father, Aziz (Rajesh Gopie)—a thriving import-exporter with a murky side racket as a money launderer and loan shark. When a murderous rival gang threatens the family’s business, Zaid is forced back into the life he’d hoped to leave behind, struggling to figure out right and wrong in a world where the two aren...
As the action picks up in Johannesburg, Zaid has returned to the teeming immigrant neighborhood of Mayfair, where he lives in the shadow of his father, Aziz (Rajesh Gopie)—a thriving import-exporter with a murky side racket as a money launderer and loan shark. When a murderous rival gang threatens the family’s business, Zaid is forced back into the life he’d hoped to leave behind, struggling to figure out right and wrong in a world where the two aren...
- 7/22/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Durban — The Durban Int’l. Film Festival opened Thursday night with a celebration of South African womanhood and a commitment to diversity in film, even as it mourned the passing of a festival icon and commemorated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela.
The 39th edition opened with Jerome Pikwane’s “The Tokoloshe,” a psychological thriller about a destitute hospital cleaner who’s forced to confront the demons of her past to try to save a child’s life.
In prepared remarks, delivered by a colleague at Thursday’s opening ceremony because she wasn’t able to attend, Diff manager Chipo Zhou described the movie as a parable of womanhood in a country plagued by sexual violence.
“It is a horror film…unveiling the menace that is our everyday burden as women in this country,” she said, adding more hopefully that the movie “sets the scene for a...
The 39th edition opened with Jerome Pikwane’s “The Tokoloshe,” a psychological thriller about a destitute hospital cleaner who’s forced to confront the demons of her past to try to save a child’s life.
In prepared remarks, delivered by a colleague at Thursday’s opening ceremony because she wasn’t able to attend, Diff manager Chipo Zhou described the movie as a parable of womanhood in a country plagued by sexual violence.
“It is a horror film…unveiling the menace that is our everyday burden as women in this country,” she said, adding more hopefully that the movie “sets the scene for a...
- 7/19/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Film and TV director Khalo Matabane has been accused of rape and sexual misconduct in the first high-profile case to emerge in South African media in the wake of the global #MeToo movement.
At least half a dozen women have come forward to accuse Matabane, the acclaimed director of “Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me,” of sexual harassment and predatory behavior. Two women have accused him of rape.
Matabane has denied the allegations and begun legal proceedings against at least one of his accusers. In a statement provided to Variety, Matabane’s legal team said that the director “will not subject himself to a trial by media (including social media) by answering these allegations.”
“The persons accusing our client are at liberty to institute legal proceedings where our client can have a fair trial, and where his right to be presumed innocent will be upheld,” wrote attorney Samuel Mufamadi. “To...
At least half a dozen women have come forward to accuse Matabane, the acclaimed director of “Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me,” of sexual harassment and predatory behavior. Two women have accused him of rape.
Matabane has denied the allegations and begun legal proceedings against at least one of his accusers. In a statement provided to Variety, Matabane’s legal team said that the director “will not subject himself to a trial by media (including social media) by answering these allegations.”
“The persons accusing our client are at liberty to institute legal proceedings where our client can have a fair trial, and where his right to be presumed innocent will be upheld,” wrote attorney Samuel Mufamadi. “To...
- 5/4/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
On Monday September 18th 2017 the 2nd edition of the Ouaga Film Lab , organized by Generation Films began. Launched in 2016 this development and coproduction residency aims to strengthen the competitiveness of West African directors and producers within major international labs, as well as to facilitate their access to local funds, international co-productions and closer collaborations with experienced mentors from around the continent.
10 feature projects (narrative and documentary) were selected this year:
A l’ombre d’Elimane, a documentary film project by Hamedine Kane (Senegal), produced by Rama Thiaw from Boul Fallé Images (Senegal)Agoodjie, a fiction film project by Félicien M. Assogba (Benin), produced by Fredy Boris Agblo from F-media (Benin)Bori Bana, a fiction film project by Joël Akafou (Côte d’Ivoire), produced by Floriane Zoundi (Burkina Faso) from Merveilles Production (Benin)Dia, a fiction film project by Achille Ronaïmou (Chad), produced by Faissol Gnonlonfin (Benin)Duba, Les charognards, a...
10 feature projects (narrative and documentary) were selected this year:
A l’ombre d’Elimane, a documentary film project by Hamedine Kane (Senegal), produced by Rama Thiaw from Boul Fallé Images (Senegal)Agoodjie, a fiction film project by Félicien M. Assogba (Benin), produced by Fredy Boris Agblo from F-media (Benin)Bori Bana, a fiction film project by Joël Akafou (Côte d’Ivoire), produced by Floriane Zoundi (Burkina Faso) from Merveilles Production (Benin)Dia, a fiction film project by Achille Ronaïmou (Chad), produced by Faissol Gnonlonfin (Benin)Duba, Les charognards, a...
- 9/22/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
★★☆☆☆ An unapologetically personal open letter to the former South African president, Khalo Matabane's Nelson Mandela: The Myth & Me (2014) is a sincere but ultimately dated piece, made as it was before Mandela's death last year. Referred to throughout in the present tense - and not simply for the timeless legacy he looks set to leave behind - we gain little deeper understanding of the man nor his ideals than have already been offered up by a myriad of other projects both old and new. Those asked to throw in their two cents about the impact Mandela had upon both apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa appear informed, but the outpouring of admiration loses its freshness around the halfway mark.
- 6/18/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Sydney - The Sydney Film Festival has spread its net wide in appointing the jury for the seventh annual Sydney Film Prize with representatives from Canada, South Africa and South Korea joining president Rachel Perkins and her fellow Australian, actress Rachael Blake, on the jury. Film critic Shelly Kraicer (Canada), producer Oh Jung-wan (South Korea) and director Khalo Matabane (South Africa), with Perkins and Blake, will award the $60,000 cash prize fro the best film in this year’s official competition, looking for the most courageous, audacious and cutting-edge film from the 12 features selected. The winning film is
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- 5/29/2014
- by Pip Bulbeck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The death of Nelson Mandela last December opened the floodgates of memorials and remembrances of the iconic figure known as Madiba, a man who overcame so much to become a great healer in post-Apartheid South Africa, not the least of which were his 27 years in prison. It’s often said that you can’t speak ill of the dead, but how about the truth? Can you speak truth about the dead, even if it’s a cruel truth or a truth that suggests that the great work of the man in question was left unfinished well before his passing? That question is one of many personal quandaries at the heart of South African filmmaker Khalo Matabane’s Nelson Mandela: The Myth & Me, which combines historical re-consideration, context from international and local observers, and his own remembrances of Mandela, the man and the myth.
The remembrances are framed as letters...
The remembrances are framed as letters...
- 4/29/2014
- by Adam A. Donaldson
- We Got This Covered
The 61st Sydney Film Festival today announced 32 films to be featured in this year.s event (June 4-15) in advance of the full program launch on May 7.
The line-up includes the world premiere of The Redfern Story, 19 Australian premieres, 13 features, 11 documentaries and an eight-film retrospective on maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman. Altman.s son, filmmaker Michael Altman, will attend festival and introduce several of the Altman screenings.
Darlene Johnson.s The Redfern Story chronicles the volatile birth of the first all-Indigenous theatre company, the National Black Theatre. It features interviews with indigenous media pioneer Lester Bostock, writer Gerry Bostock, actor Lillian Crombie, activist-academic Gary Foley, academic Marcia Langton, actors Rachael Maza, Bryan Brown and Bindi Williams. .We are pleased to present this sneak preview of 32 of the 180-plus films in this year.s program,. said Festival Director Nashen Moodley. .We have gathered a selection of the best films from the...
The line-up includes the world premiere of The Redfern Story, 19 Australian premieres, 13 features, 11 documentaries and an eight-film retrospective on maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman. Altman.s son, filmmaker Michael Altman, will attend festival and introduce several of the Altman screenings.
Darlene Johnson.s The Redfern Story chronicles the volatile birth of the first all-Indigenous theatre company, the National Black Theatre. It features interviews with indigenous media pioneer Lester Bostock, writer Gerry Bostock, actor Lillian Crombie, activist-academic Gary Foley, academic Marcia Langton, actors Rachael Maza, Bryan Brown and Bindi Williams. .We are pleased to present this sneak preview of 32 of the 180-plus films in this year.s program,. said Festival Director Nashen Moodley. .We have gathered a selection of the best films from the...
- 4/1/2014
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
The awards winners for the 26th Idfa were announced in Amsterdam on Friday night.
Song from the Forest by Germany’s Michael Obert won the main prize at Idfa (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) tonight (Nov 29).
The film won the Vpro Idfa Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, worth €12,500.
The film tells the story of American Louis Sarno, who has lived for 25 years with a tribe of Pygmies in the jungle of Central Africa and decides to take his son to the Us for the first time.
The Special Jury Award went to A Letter to Nelson Mandela by Khalo Matabane (South Africa / Germany), in which the filmmaker takes a critical look at Nelson Mandela, his status and role in the reforms that took place in South Africa in the 1990s.
Twin Sisters by Mona Friis Bertheussen won the BankGiro Loterij Idfa Audience Award.
The Russian collective Gogol’s Wives Productions won the Ntr Idfa Award for Best Mid-Length...
Song from the Forest by Germany’s Michael Obert won the main prize at Idfa (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) tonight (Nov 29).
The film won the Vpro Idfa Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, worth €12,500.
The film tells the story of American Louis Sarno, who has lived for 25 years with a tribe of Pygmies in the jungle of Central Africa and decides to take his son to the Us for the first time.
The Special Jury Award went to A Letter to Nelson Mandela by Khalo Matabane (South Africa / Germany), in which the filmmaker takes a critical look at Nelson Mandela, his status and role in the reforms that took place in South Africa in the 1990s.
Twin Sisters by Mona Friis Bertheussen won the BankGiro Loterij Idfa Audience Award.
The Russian collective Gogol’s Wives Productions won the Ntr Idfa Award for Best Mid-Length...
- 11/29/2013
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
With Nelson Mandela apparently at death's door and the biopic "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" revving up for Oscar season with a recent White House screening, widespread veneration for South Africa's iconic leader has arguably never been higher. The mythology surrounding Mandela has grown so sacrosanct that the measured approach to his failings in Khalo Matabane's diary-like documentary "A Letter to Nelson Mandela" has almost radical connotations. However, far from issuing a subversive missive, Matabane manages a thoughtful analysis of Mandela's monolithic legacy through the prism of growing up in its shadow as a child of the eighties. Expertly assembled with a mixture of authoritative talking heads and the filmmaker's introspective first-person narration, "A Letter to Nelson Mandela" cannily deconstructs the messianic fervor surrounding its subject -- and, by extension, others like him. Raised, like so many South Africans of his generation, to revere Mandela as the panacea to the.
- 11/26/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The director of Sydney film festival describes the magic of film festivals and the communal discovery of great new works
My first experience of a film festival was through a catalogue. I was about 16 at the time, and in my weekly forays into Durban's city centre I would pick up a copy of the New Musical Express, and the occasional football or cricket magazine. One day, I came upon the catalogue for the Durban International Film Festival. Though I was too young to attend, I bought it, and pored over it for weeks, noting all the films I wished I could see – all of them really.
Around the same time, a friend had somehow managed to get his hands on a UK-distributed VHS tape of Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine. I adored everything about the film: the extreme violence, the childish games on the beach, the black suits, the dreaminess of it.
My first experience of a film festival was through a catalogue. I was about 16 at the time, and in my weekly forays into Durban's city centre I would pick up a copy of the New Musical Express, and the occasional football or cricket magazine. One day, I came upon the catalogue for the Durban International Film Festival. Though I was too young to attend, I bought it, and pored over it for weeks, noting all the films I wished I could see – all of them really.
Around the same time, a friend had somehow managed to get his hands on a UK-distributed VHS tape of Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine. I adored everything about the film: the extreme violence, the childish games on the beach, the black suits, the dreaminess of it.
- 6/7/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Everything from street hustlers and school teachers to Nobel prize winners and Islamist extremists in a feast of African film
We have selected eight films from five African countries to look out for in 2013 – the year of the 23rd edition of Fespaco – the bi-annual pan-African film and television festival of Ouagadougou.
Burn it up Djassa by Lonesome Solo (Cote d'Ivoire)
Labelled "a film by the people for the people", Burn it up Djassa is about a young street hustler in Abidjan looking for a break. After shooting his first feature, Lonesome Solo escaped the war torn Cote d'Ivoire and has not been seen since.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Biyi Bandele (Nigeria/UK)
The adaptation of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi-Adiche's Orange Prize-winning and bestselling epic, stars Thandie Newton and Chewitel Ejiofor. Nigerian investors contributed with 80% of the budget to fellow Nigerian director and writer Bandele's feature debut.
Jeppe on a Friday by Shannon Walsh,...
We have selected eight films from five African countries to look out for in 2013 – the year of the 23rd edition of Fespaco – the bi-annual pan-African film and television festival of Ouagadougou.
Burn it up Djassa by Lonesome Solo (Cote d'Ivoire)
Labelled "a film by the people for the people", Burn it up Djassa is about a young street hustler in Abidjan looking for a break. After shooting his first feature, Lonesome Solo escaped the war torn Cote d'Ivoire and has not been seen since.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Biyi Bandele (Nigeria/UK)
The adaptation of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi-Adiche's Orange Prize-winning and bestselling epic, stars Thandie Newton and Chewitel Ejiofor. Nigerian investors contributed with 80% of the budget to fellow Nigerian director and writer Bandele's feature debut.
Jeppe on a Friday by Shannon Walsh,...
- 1/23/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Pyramide, the French sales agent and theatrical distribution had a great Cannes last year repping films that collected prizes in: A Screaming Man and Ano Bisiesto. This year they've got another Bruno Dumont film (see pic above), the closing film in the Ucr section with Andrey Zvyagintsev's Elena and Ismael Ferroukhi receives an invite as well for Free Men in a Cannes' section that we figure isn't really part of the festival since there are no official press screenings made available. Here are their current output for the year. Elena by Andrey Zvyagintsev - Completed Free Men (Les Hommes Libres) by Ismael Ferroukhi - Completed Outside Satan (Hors Satan) by Bruno Dumont - Completed A Lost Son (La Desintegration) by Philippe Faucon - Post-Production Angele And Tony by Alix Delaporte - Completed Here Below (Ici-bas) by Jean-Pierre Denis - Post-Production Jimmy Riviere by Teddy Lussi-modeste - Completed State Of Violence...
- 5/31/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Kandyse McClure (Battlestar Galactica, Cole) stops by Reel Artsy to share -
Top 5 Things I love about South Africa:
Brimming with tales of adventure from my trip back last year, I was thrilled to receive the call to do a list of my favorite things. Here’s a little glimpse into a wild and wonderful place I like to call home.
1. Rainbow Nation.
People often think of South Africa in terms of Black and White and forget the myriad shades in between. There are 11 national languages in Sa and a plethora of dialects. Africans from all over the continent live and do business in the blossoming economy, the strongest and most stable in Africa. The birthplace of humanity welcomed all its children home at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It was thrilling to hear so many different languages and cultures celebrating together in the streets of Johannesburg. It’s not so...
Top 5 Things I love about South Africa:
Brimming with tales of adventure from my trip back last year, I was thrilled to receive the call to do a list of my favorite things. Here’s a little glimpse into a wild and wonderful place I like to call home.
1. Rainbow Nation.
People often think of South Africa in terms of Black and White and forget the myriad shades in between. There are 11 national languages in Sa and a plethora of dialects. Africans from all over the continent live and do business in the blossoming economy, the strongest and most stable in Africa. The birthplace of humanity welcomed all its children home at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It was thrilling to hear so many different languages and cultures celebrating together in the streets of Johannesburg. It’s not so...
- 4/3/2011
- by karen@reelartsy.com (Karen)
- Reelartsy
Berlinale 2011 poster
Patang (The Kite), a feature film written and directed by Prashant Bhargava, will be screened as part of the 41st Forum in Berlinale 2011. The film, a co-production between India and USA, is a drama set in the backdrop of India’s largest kite festival in Ahmedabad.
Forum will present a total of 39 films in the main programme and 6 films as special screenings, 24 of which are world premieres and 12 international premieres. It is considered to be the most experimental section of the Berlinale which presents original, provocative and disturbing cinema.
In addition, 8 films will be shown from the creative period of the Japanese director Shibuya Minoru. The 61st Berlinale will take place from February 10-20, 2011.
The complete Programme of Forum:
Main Programme
Amnesty by Bujar Alimani, Albania/Greece/France
Auf der Suche (Looking for Simon) by Jan Krüger, Germany/France
Ausente (Absent) by Marco Berger, Argentina
The Ballad of...
Patang (The Kite), a feature film written and directed by Prashant Bhargava, will be screened as part of the 41st Forum in Berlinale 2011. The film, a co-production between India and USA, is a drama set in the backdrop of India’s largest kite festival in Ahmedabad.
Forum will present a total of 39 films in the main programme and 6 films as special screenings, 24 of which are world premieres and 12 international premieres. It is considered to be the most experimental section of the Berlinale which presents original, provocative and disturbing cinema.
In addition, 8 films will be shown from the creative period of the Japanese director Shibuya Minoru. The 61st Berlinale will take place from February 10-20, 2011.
The complete Programme of Forum:
Main Programme
Amnesty by Bujar Alimani, Albania/Greece/France
Auf der Suche (Looking for Simon) by Jan Krüger, Germany/France
Ausente (Absent) by Marco Berger, Argentina
The Ballad of...
- 1/18/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Berlin International Film Festival (German: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), one of the world’s leading film festivals and most reputable media events has just announced their complete lineup for the Forum program this year, and it looks incredible once again.
With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions, it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. Basically it is the place to be if you work in the business. The European Film Market (Efm), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit once a year. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The festival has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention.
With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions, it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. Basically it is the place to be if you work in the business. The European Film Market (Efm), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit once a year. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The festival has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention.
- 1/18/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Wow, that's a lot of flicks. Everything from Peter Mullan's Neds to Benedek Fliegauf's Womb (that's right, it's a trailer!) to more Greek weirdness in Athena Tsangari's Attenberg. I wish I was going.
It's late so I'm not writing much of a post here.. Maybe I'll update tomorrow.
Full list after the break via Variety.
Contemporary World Cinema
(World preems)
* "Home for Christmas," Bent Hamer (Norway/Germany/Sweden)
* "Behind Blue Skies," Hannes Holm (Sweden)
* "Even The Rain," Iciar Bollain (Spain/France/Mexico)
* "The First Grader," Justin Chadwick (I.K.)
* "Neds," Peter Mullan (U.K./France/Italy)
* "White Irish Drinkers," John Gray (U.S.)
* "22nd of May," Koen Mortier (Belgium)
* "African United," Deb Gardner-Paterson (U.K.)
* "Blessed Events," Isabelle Stever (Germany)
* "The Edge," Alexey Uchitel (Russia)
* "Jucy," Louise Alston (Australia)
* "Lapland Odyssey," Dome Karukoski (Finland)
* "Late Autumn," Kim Teo-Yong (South Korea)
* "Matariki" Michael Bennet (New Zealand)
* "Tracker" Ian Sharp (U.
It's late so I'm not writing much of a post here.. Maybe I'll update tomorrow.
Full list after the break via Variety.
Contemporary World Cinema
(World preems)
* "Home for Christmas," Bent Hamer (Norway/Germany/Sweden)
* "Behind Blue Skies," Hannes Holm (Sweden)
* "Even The Rain," Iciar Bollain (Spain/France/Mexico)
* "The First Grader," Justin Chadwick (I.K.)
* "Neds," Peter Mullan (U.K./France/Italy)
* "White Irish Drinkers," John Gray (U.S.)
* "22nd of May," Koen Mortier (Belgium)
* "African United," Deb Gardner-Paterson (U.K.)
* "Blessed Events," Isabelle Stever (Germany)
* "The Edge," Alexey Uchitel (Russia)
* "Jucy," Louise Alston (Australia)
* "Lapland Odyssey," Dome Karukoski (Finland)
* "Late Autumn," Kim Teo-Yong (South Korea)
* "Matariki" Michael Bennet (New Zealand)
* "Tracker" Ian Sharp (U.
- 8/25/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Rachel Weisz in The Whistleblower The Toronto International Film Festival has added even more films to their line-up today as the complete line-up was announced, which ended up causing the festival's server to crash, but I was lucky enough to get in and get out before missing out on the information.
First off, the festival's Mavericks line-up is quite interesting, which includes a series of guest presentations and this year will see Edward Norton interview Bruce Springsteen, NBA All-Star and native Canadian Steve Nash will present his hour-long film Into the Wind, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will talk with the audience as his Cannes Palm d'Or-winning film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives was just added to the Masters programme, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty will be interviewed by Michael Moore on politics and cinema and Philip Seymour Hoffman will have his own panel. Also on hand will be Bill Gates,...
First off, the festival's Mavericks line-up is quite interesting, which includes a series of guest presentations and this year will see Edward Norton interview Bruce Springsteen, NBA All-Star and native Canadian Steve Nash will present his hour-long film Into the Wind, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will talk with the audience as his Cannes Palm d'Or-winning film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives was just added to the Masters programme, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty will be interviewed by Michael Moore on politics and cinema and Philip Seymour Hoffman will have his own panel. Also on hand will be Bill Gates,...
- 8/24/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The sophomore film from the director of Ex Drummer, Swedish thriller Bad Faith, Pablo Trapero's Carancho (my personal favorite film from Cannes 2010), Tsui Hark's Detective Dee, Tom Tykwer's Three and a host of others populate one of the more exciting lineups for the Tiff Contemporary World Cinema Program in recent years. Here's the complete lineup:
22nd of May Koen Mortier, Belgium World Premiere
The director of Ex-Drummer returns with an artful meditation on political violence. A security guard fails to prevent a horrific explosion in a shopping mall, then lives through the aftermath as a series of overlapping what-ifs.
Africa United Debs Gardner-Paterson, United Kingdom World Premiere
Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to achieve their lifelong dream - to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg.
Aftershock Feng Xiaogang, China North American Premiere...
22nd of May Koen Mortier, Belgium World Premiere
The director of Ex-Drummer returns with an artful meditation on political violence. A security guard fails to prevent a horrific explosion in a shopping mall, then lives through the aftermath as a series of overlapping what-ifs.
Africa United Debs Gardner-Paterson, United Kingdom World Premiere
Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to achieve their lifelong dream - to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg.
Aftershock Feng Xiaogang, China North American Premiere...
- 8/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
BERLIN -- The political, the eclectic and the simply weird will be on display in the official lineup for the Berlin International Film Festival's Forum sidebar. Highlights of the 2006 Forum, announced Friday, include My Country, My Country, Laura Poitras' the documentary about the Iraqi parliamentary elections; psychological thriller Strange Circus, from Japanese director Sono Sion; and the informatively titled docu 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep, from British helmer Ben Hopkins. This year's lineup includes features from 29 countries, spanning South Africa (Khalo Matabane's documentary Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon), Ukraine (Happy People, from Aleksandr Shapiro), Korea (So Yong-kim's In Between Days and Shin Dong-il's Host & Guest) and Brazil (Kiko Goifman's Acts of Men). Films by German directors featured in the 2006 Forum include Ulrich Koehler's surreal Windows on Monday and two films that deal with the complicated relationship between Germany and Turkey: Thomas Arslan's From Far Away and Aysun Bademsoy's On the Outskirts. Meanwhile, up-and-coming talent and cutting-edge German filmmaking are the key features of this year's Perspectives on German Cinema, the Berlin sidebar that focuses on young German directors.
- 1/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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