Today at Film Africa – Wednesday 30 October
3:30 PM | RICH MIX
Dela: The Making of El Anatsui directed by Oyiza Adaba
El Anatsui’s inner musings find vivid expression in art that defies borders and limitations, reshaping the very concept of sculpture. Oyiza Adaba’s directorial debut triumphantly acknowledges and emphasizes the importance of Africa’s rich artistic and cultural heritage in the pantheon of global contemporary art.
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6:00 PM | SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
Animation – Short Film Programme
This series of shorts brings together a dynamic collection of animated films from across Africa, showcasing the power of animation to tell compelling stories. From Tanzania to Egypt, Senegal to Ethiopia, these films explore myths, histories, culture and deeply personal journeys through vibrant and imaginative visuals.
Programme:
- Jabari directed by Francis Y Brown
- An orphan, Jabari, raised by seer Hem-Netjer, grows to uncover the mystery behind his birth and the demise of his parent. He takes on mystical giants summoned from the dark realms of the underworld in the course of fulfilling his discovered purpose and saving the innocent people of Aksum.
- Bahr directed by Belal Abosamra
- While grieving the loss of his wife, a father struggles with faith in a chance to reconnect with her; the journey is portrayed as death being a beginning rather than an end, a simple line separating two worlds.
- If(fy) directed by Lesego Vorster, Ross Lelliot, Osiokeh Ikharo
- Ifeanyi has been planning his first move; he just needs an in. Or maybe an unobstructed view. His intentions are dubious but pure. He swears! After getting a pity-invite, he finally gets the chance he’s been waiting for. But will it be too late? If(fy) explores the idea that the rules dictating our morality are re-written in the presence of things we want more; and how our outer face often masks an inner struggle to navigate our fears.
- Hair Care directed by Fatima Wardy
- When her hair braider disappears on her, a young woman must traverse an animated Ivory Coast in order to track her down.
- Nebsei directed by Gabrielle Frewayni Tesfaye
- Nebsey, meaning ‘my body’ in Tigrigna, is a short-animated film revealing the story of women who faced sexual and gender based violence during the war in Tigray.
6:15 PM | RICH MIX
Mambar Pierrette directed by Rosine Mbakam
More than a seamstress, Mambar Pierrette is the confidant of her customers and community, in the city of Douala, Cameroon. But, when it starts pouring and the rain threatens to flood her workshop – one of many misfortunes – Pierrette will have to struggle to stay afloat. Marked by moments of beauty and quiet grace, director Rosine Mbakam’s naturalistic approach favours a portrait of resilience in the face of adversity and socioeconomic hardship.
6:30 PM | BARBICAN
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl directed by Rungano Nyoni
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.
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8:10 PM | HACKNEY PICTUREHOUSE
The London Recruits directed by Gordon Main
The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid during the 1960s.
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8:25 PM | CINÉ LUMIÈRE
Emitai directed by Ousmane Sembene
Emitai is a deceptively simple story about the resistance, and a strong statement from Sembene about the forms of oppression practised by the French in West Africa. During the Second World War, when French troops arrive in a Diola village to enlist the men and confiscate the rice, the women hide the harvest instead of submitting to the French tax. The situation becomes more tense and the French quash the resisters by firing on them. The Diola elders debate the best response to the increasingly harsh French policies and they decide to consult and pray to Emitai the god of thunder. Tensions increasingly escalate and the villagers bemuse themselves with their unhelpful gods and giving up the resistance.
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8:30 PM | RICH MIX
Nome directed by Sana Na N’Hada
Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war erupts between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea. Nome leaves his village to joins the maquis, and after years, he will return as a hero, but his joy will soon give way to bitterness and cynicism.
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Today at Film Africa – Wednesday 30 October
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