‘The Worst Place To Be Gay’
Homosexuality can get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia and there are several other places with similar policies. But, Uganda’s pretty bad.
Film
Design Short
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lhzd1vgtBk Time to promote some continental filmmakers again. The young ones. The organizers of Design Indaba,
Puppet History
Peter Muhumuza Tuke's film "Kengere" - using puppets - tells the story of how soldiers trapped 69 people in a train that was then set on fire during Uganda's civil war.
Madagascar at the Oscars
A French filmmaker witnesses a "the turning of the dead people" ceremony in Madagascar. Amazingly, the film explores this event without necessarily exoticizing it.
The Uprising
Dylan Valley talks his film revisiting violent events of September 2010 when Cape Town municipal police waged war on poor black residents of rich, white Hout Bay.
The Race Card
Bridging the Western art world and the West African film industry, London-based artist Doug Fishbone cast
A ticking time bomb
Will the slow pace of land reform in South Africa, be the undoing of the ANC government?
Film Critic
The 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick “Commando” is narrated–“shot for shot”–by a 9-year old Tanzanian boy. (The
White Butterflies
The trailer for “Black Butterflies,” the new Dutch film about the 1960s Afrikaans writer, Ingrid Jonker,
Black Diamond(s)
[vodpod id=Video.5523753&w=500&h=411&fv=file%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffr.player-feed.previewnetworks.com%2Fv3.1%2Fcinema%2F5444%2F331100125-1%2F] Director Pascale Lamche’s got some help from Peter Mukurube (that’s him putting Sepp Blatter
Deep Roots Malawi
Gasper Nali is one of the musicians featured in the 2009 Deep Roots Malawi documentary. I
T.I.A. (Nollywood Edition)
Nollywood film posters in a store window on Nostrand Ave. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
A Ghanaian Election
A new documentary film chronicles what happened in 2008, when only for second time, since Ghana ended military rule in 1992, that power would change hands through an election.
Do you need another rap film?
Do the foregrounding of celebrities and stories of human tragedy help or hurt two new films about hip hop in Uganda?
The constructions of whiteness in South Africa
The role documentary film in producing memory as it intersects with contemporary constructions of understanding apartheid and this post-apartheid period.
Out my window
Out My Window is a 360° online documentary and the first release from the HIGHRISE project,
Fela in the Big Apple
In the mid-1980s, Fela Kuti and his band, then in their prime, came to play in New York City.
The Sudanese architect
The film "Limbo" covers the frustated life and dreams of Sudanese immigrant and trained architect, Issam.
A familiar narrative about Madagascar
As part of our series on how Western filmmakers portray African countries and people, a piece on the children's film, "Madagascar."
City One Minutes
When sleepless I often find myself browsing through time and space, moving from Johannesburg’s CBD to