SA films to screen at AfricAvenir Namibia

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SA films to screen at AfricAvenir Namibia --

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 12:54

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In 2014, AfricAvenir plans to host another year of extraordinary African cinema screenings in Namibia.

South African feature film Of Good Report (2013), directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, kicks off the new year, followed by Kenya s Something Necessary (2013) by Judy Kibinge, which deals with the post-election violence in Kenya in 2008.

In March, Tunisian film The Professor (2012) screens. This movie, by Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, highlights the human rights violations experienced in the 1970s, and how this tore apart the personal life of the supporter of the political establishment.

In April 2014, Imbabazi The Pardon (2013) from Rwanda, Joel Karekezi s debut film, screens on the 20th commemoration of the Rwandan genocide.

Directed by Hubert Laba Ndao, Dakar Trottoirs (2013) from Senegal screens in May and The Great Kilapy (2012), a co-production between Angola, Brazil and Portugal, will also show.

Feature films Behind Closed Doors (2013) by Mohammed Ahed Bensouda from Morocco, which deals with sexual harassment; Hidden Beauties (2012) by Nouri Bouzid from Tunisia; Phillipe Niang s epic Toussaint Louverture (2012), a co- production between Haiti, France and Senegal; and South African feel-good film Felix (2013) by Roberta Durrant, will screen in the second part of the year.

Documentaries such as Thomas Sankara (1993) by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, DRC; Ceux de la Colline (2010) by Berni Goldblat, Burkina Faso and Sodiq (2013) by Adeyemi Micheal, a co-production between Nigeria and the UK, will also be shown.

Hans-Christian Mahnke, director of AfricAvenir, says: I think the programme as social and political commentary is clear. The tragedies, the poignant suffering, the conflicts of the numerous men and women who people these films reflect the larger social, intellectual and political changes in one significant part of the modern world, Africa.

The struggle of the younger generation of men and women to attain their domestic freedom to shape their own lives mirrors or parallels the continents struggle to achieve political and economic independence and to free itself from the shackles of outworn and debilitating, almost medieval, conventions and world outlook in a gigantic endeavour to belong to the modern world, he concludes.

Email c.mahnke@africavenir.org or visit www.africavenir.org for more information.

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