The new auteur in South African cinema
An Interview with film director Oliver Hermanus, who has made "Skoonheid," a film about homophobia, sexual violence and white Afrikaner masculinity. Hermanus is a coloured and black director.
Film
The Bang Bang Club
Journalists in South Africa are picking up on how the film, "The Bang Bang Club," treats some of the Bang Bang Club's black colleagues. And other Weekend Specials.
Spinning in Gauteng
Journalist/photographer Chris Parkinson, who lives in Johannesburg, has shot this short film about car spinning in
Mandela's heirs
The documentary “Dear Mandela,” about three young leaders of a shack dwellers movement in Durban, South
Hillywood
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2ZHiGmws8&w=600&h=373] The program of selected films and documentaries for this year’s Rwanda Film Festival going down
'The last photo before leaving'
Kwa Heri Mandima (Goodbye Mandima) is a short film by the French-Dutch director Robert-Jan Lacombe doing
The Redemption of General Butt-Naked
A film about former Liberian child soldier, Joshua Milton Blahyi, adds to his celebrity and his reputation as a skilled manipulator.
Pretty in Pink
One in ten young people on Cape Town's Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career - and sometime their lives - is prom, known as the matric ball.
The Russian connection
Soviet cinema had a major impact on the narratives, styles, and tone of African filmmakers.
The Best African Movie
The Congolese film, Viva Riva, is no high-minded, French-funded "cinema" — it’s a gritty gangster film.
Sierra Leone’s Own TV
An interview with the founders of a media center providing technical, artistic and vocational support to filmmakers in Freetown.
'Short Cut'
The trailer for the feature film “Short Cut” (to be directed by Norman Maake) about the
Andrew Dosunmu's 'Restless City'
I recently missed out on seeing a special screening (at BAM in Brooklyn) of “Restless City,”
Out of Africa
Vanity Fair’s June issue has a profile. of Hillary Clinton. It contains tons of information about
The first Afrikaans film at Cannes
Finally a teaser for the film “Skoonheid,” by Cape Town director, Oliver Hermanus, is now online.
The Belgian Color Bar
The filmmaker hopes Congolese in Belgium can be given a stage to offer their own history and projections of Congo.
The films of Kivu Ruhorahoza
A sobering representation of the psychic scars that still haunt many Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.
Soccer Soap Opera
Who are the Kenyans who needed a soap opera as an impetus to change their attitudes about political violence and why did they need it?
Shabazz Palaces and Kahlil Joseph
Although the effect of blending the music by Shabazz Palaces and the images of documentary-in-the-making Tough
Queer Families
Sometimes AIAC collaborator Nerina Penzhorn’s documentary, “Waited For,” about interracial adoptions in South Africa of mostly