04/11/2012

African films to look forward to

The blog Africa is a country published a link of the best coming African films...
Here is the link with the list and trailers below.


I would add three I am particularly waiting for: the Kenyan ‘Nairobi Half Life’, the Canadian Congolese ‘Rebel’ and the UK Nigerian ‘Half a Yellow Sun’.

Nairobi Half Life

In the meantime, the Film Africa Festival is currently taking place in fantastic London:

http://www.filmafrica.org.uk/

The Royal African Society and SOAS present Film Africa 2012
 
Film Africa, the UK’s largest annual festival of African cinema and culture, is back in November 2012 with 10 days of 70 amazing African films, 35 leading filmmakers offering Q&As, free professional workshops, and 9 African music nights.
After the huge success of Film Africa 2011, this year’s festival is even bigger and better, with a whole range of new exciting educational, family, and arts events alongside the main film programme. And this year, in addition to continuing our Silver Baobab Award for Best Short African Film and The Distribution Forum, we will also be inaugurating the Film Africa Audience Award and the Picha House, an alternative cinema venue with free screenings throughout the festival.

It presents today 'Nairobi Half Life' at the Ritzy, in Brixton, South London:

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Ritzy_Picturehouse/film/Film_Africa_Uk_Premiere_Nairobi_Half_Life_Q_A/

Kenya 2012, 96 mins
Director: David Tosh Gitonga
Synopsis

Mwas is a young aspiring actor, who moves from his home village to Nairobi to try to make the big time. But as he tries to navigate his way through hardship and lack of family support, towards his dream of taking centre stage, he finds himself drawn into a world of small time crooks and deceit in the smoky bustle of Kenya’s capital. Do means ever justify the ends to reach one’s dream? Played by award-winning actor Joseph Wairimu, this is the evocative and much-awaited new film from One Fine Day productions, which sees famous German filmmaker Tom Tykwer work in collaboration with rising Kenyan film talents.


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10 films to watch out for, N°9

http://africasacountry.com/2012/11/01/10-films-to-watch-out-for-n9/ 

In no particular order, here are another 10 films — still in production, recently completed or already making the rounds — we hope to see one day. All of them documentary films this week. First up, Electrical Rites in Guinea-Conakry, Julien Raout and Florian Draussin’s music documentary on the omnipresence, the appropriation and the different roles of the electric guitar in Guinea’s musical landscape. Trailer above. Next, Le Chanteur de l’Ombre (“Singer from the shadow”) is Yann Lucas’s portrait of maloya singer Simon ‘Dada’ Lagarrigue, “pillar of the culture of Réunion” (film pitch), and the role Dada played in the political and union fights in the French département d’outre-mer during the seventies and eighties: 

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I am going to look for release dates in France and get back to you.
Cheers



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