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Rencontres du Film Court Madagascar is an annual film festival held in the capital Antananarivo that showcases short films from around the continent. It is the only film festival in Madagascar. This year’s festival takes place from July 5-12.
The Festival was founded in 2006 by Laza Razanajatovo, known as Laza, a Malagasy filmmaker and producer, and is organized by L'Association Rencontres du Film Court, the Institut Français de Madagascar, and Rozifilms. The festival receives around 350 films from 40 African countries for the official competition. About thirty films make it to the final selection and screen in one of four categories: fiction, documentary, animation, and audience award.
The award of RFC is called Zebu d'Or (Golden Zebu) and is handed out to the winner of each competition category.Our Father directed by Biodun Stephen premiers at the ICFF film festival in Toronto July 12. Starring Olarotimi Fakunle, Etim Effiong, Mike Afolarin, Uche Montana, and Audrey Harrison the movie follows a struggling musician who seeks to reconnect with his family twenty years after abandoning them in a quest for stardom.
Lobola Man drops on Netflix July 18th. The South African romantic comedy stars Lawrence Maleka in his first leading role, as the “silver-tongued chief lobola (bride price) negotiator.” The film also stars Sthandile Nkosi, Obed Baloyi, Themba Ndaba, Kwanele Mthethwa, Letuka Dlamini, Nimrod Nkosi, Sello Ramolahloane and Thembsie Matu.
Call for submissions for the Ecrans Noirs Festival is open through July 31. The 28th edition of Écrans Noirs festival will be held from October 19-26, 2024 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and in various cities throughout the country.
July 11th is African Anti-Corruption Day. Checkout Softie a 2020 Kenyan film based on the life of political activist and photojournalist Boniface Mwangi and his family; King of Boys: The Return of the King (2021), a seven-part limited Netflix crime drama series that explore Nigerian corruption and power dynamics; and the South African 2019 political documentary How to Steal a Country about state capture in South Africa during President Jacob Zuma’s presidency. The film is being used in German high schools to teach students about corruption.
Kin-Kiesse (1982), the short film from the Democratic Republic of Congo about the capital Kinshasa by Mwezé Ngangura, features the famed Congolese painter Cheri Samba and musician Papa Wembe. Winner of best documentary at FESPACO, the film inspired Ngangura’s first feature film, the musical comedy La Vie est Belle (1987), a big hit in African cinemas. Kin-Kiesse can be watched on YouTube.
A Screaming Man (2010) by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun received the Cannes Film Festival's Jury Prize, the first Chadian film to be in the main competition, and the first to win a Cannes festival award. Set in 2006 during the civil war in Chad, the film tells the story of a father who sends his son to war in a desperate attempt to regain his job.
Drum (2004) by Swazi director Zola Maseko was the first South African film to receive the top prize at FESPACO in 2005. Set in 1950s Johannesburg, it recounts the real life story of pioneering investigative journalist Henry Nxumalo.
Behind Closed Doors (2014), a Moroccan drama film directed by Mohamed Bensouda premiered at the 2013 Marrakesh International Film Festival where two additional screenings were added due to popular demand. The critically acclaimed film whose plot centers around the culturally taboo issue of sexual harassment went on to become Morocco's top-selling movie in 2014.
Manouchka Kelly Labouba is a Gabonese director, screenwriter, and producer of short films including the critically acclaimed Marty et la tendre dame, Le guichet automatique, and Le divorce. With the release of Le divorce in 2008 she became the youngest director in the history of Gabon, and the first Gabonese woman to direct a fiction film in the country. She is also an academic, cinematographer, editor, and camera operator. Le divorce can be watched on Cine du Gabon's YouTube Channel.
Thabo Rametsi (b 17 July 1988) is a South African actor and producer. He is best known for his roles in The Giver, The Gamechangers, and Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu, a film based on the life of South African liberation fighter Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu. In Silverton Siege, a 2022 Netflix film, he plays Calvin Khumalo, another real-life anti-apartheid freedom fighter, part of Umkhonto WeSizwe. In June of 2024, Rametsi announced the development of “Imbokodo”, the first of a four-part comic book series in collaboration with Dark Horse Comics.
Hussein Shariffe (7 July 1934 – 21 January 2005) was a Sudanese filmmaker, painter, poet and university lecturer. Once returned to Sudan in the 1970s after years abroad, he worked both at the Ministry of Culture and at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Khartoum. In 1973 he began a second artistic career as filmmaker, producing several documentaries such as The Dislocation of Amber, a film about the historical port of Suakin on the Red Sea coast and Diary in Exile, an account of Sudanese living in exile in Egypt.Rwandan actress, Eliane Umuhire
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Deon Meyer worked closely with the show's writing team in the adaption.
"As an author, I think you are always too close to the book and too subjective to take the adaptation decisions on your own. We spent perhaps more time discussing and brainstorming the script than on any other aspect of the TV show and I was very involved with that. I think we all had a similar vision. Let’s use the book as an inspiration but not as the gospel."
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