The annual New York African Film Festival takes place till the end of May. One of the outstanding films on the program is “Un Homme Qui Crie” (A Screaming Man) by Chadian director, Mahamat Saleh Haroun. The film won the 2010 Cannes Jury Prize. Public screenings of Un Homme Qui Crie are scheduled for 26 and 28 May. The usually dour Armond White is impressed; so is Manohla Dargis in The New York Times. Here’s an interview with director Haroun on the BBC:
Here’s the festival’s full program.
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It has also won the 2011 CinemAfica film festival prize this March in Stockholm
http://www.cinemafrica.se/
This beautifully shot, bittersweet contemplation on family life and a country in crisis is definitely worth watching! It blew us away at jotta.
http://www.jotta.com/jotta/published/home/article/v2-published/1502/a-screaming-man