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Mama Africa

World Chinema

Social Criticism · Women · Comedy · Irony

CountryZimbabwe,Tunisie,BurkinaFaso,
Production Year2001
Running Time85min
Format35mm
ColorCOLOR

Program Note

This groundbreaking short film initiative brings together three amazing African Stories by some of the most skillful and imaginative women filmmakers from the vast and diverse continent of Africa, collecting for the first time the beauty, humor, fury, frustration, intimacy, and spirituality of African womanhood. In Riches by Ingrid Sinclair (Zimbabwe), the young teacher Mollie moves to the countryside hoping for a better life. In this hostile community she loses her job and the love of her child, but not her will to fight. One Evening in July by Tunisian Raja Amari shows how Saida, a sixty-year-old beauty specialist for brides, finds herself in a moral quandary when her customer Miriam decides to kill her intended husband on her advice. Fanta Nacro from Burkina Faso made A Close-up on Bintou is a comedy about the housewife Antoinette, who sets up a lucrative business despite the opposition of her husband.

Director

Ingrid Sinclair

An international TV producer/director. Sinclair′s first feature, Flame(1996), was critically acclaimed. Widely seen as part of the African Renaissance, her films include Limpopo Line(1989), Bird from Another World(1991) and Better Trees from Better Seed(1994).

Raja Amari

Educated in France and well-versed in writing and directing short films, Raja Amari brings the unique Magreb culture to Mama Africa from the point of view of a young and imaginative woman. Her recent successes include Avril and La Fille au Miroir.

Fanta Narco

Hailed as part of the nouvelle vague in African filmmaking, Narco′s two drama shorts Un Certain Matin(1992) and Puk Nini(1995) have won prizes all over the world.

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