The following "African Political Films" recently released on
the list are available from California Newsreel
AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI
ALLAH TANTOU
FLAME
GUIMBA
HYENAS
MAPANTSULA
MORTU NEGA (not MORTU GOMES as listed) - A classic film about life in the
liberated zones during the independence struggle in Guinea-Bissau and the
years immediately after independence. It is also the first feature film
from Guinea-Bissau.
BLUE EYES OF YONTA ( UDJU AZUL DI YONTA)
ZAN BOKO
Cornelius Moore
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-----Original Message-----
From: William P. Coleman [mailto:wpc@wpcmath.com]
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Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 10:58 AM
To: Steve Smith; H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU
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Subject: Re: African Political Films, a listing
I would like to suggest the following addition:
ARISTOTLE'S PLOT: Director Jean Pierre Bekolo, of Cameroon, presents a
complex, humane satire of Africa's current relation to the motion picture
industry and thus of Africans' attitudes about themselves. Full of
references to and dialogue with Ousmane Sembene.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene Baer [mailto:docbaer@ticon.net]
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Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 9:57 AM
To: H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU <mailto:H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: African POlitical Films
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: African POlitical Films
Med Hondo's film is actually titled "Lumiere noire" rather than "Lumiere
blanche" it was adapted from a novel by Didier Daeninckx.
Hondo has a new film called "Watani, a monde sans mal" he describes the
title as follows: "Watani means "nation, country, homeland". Un monde sans
mal is specific and general. We were all born somewhere without having
asked to be born there and there is the world in which we live. It's the
contradiction between the nation and homeland we have. I am from Mauritania
but I belong to a continent which is Africa and this continent belongs to
the world. It's these two notions combined in a veiled message." From
interview with Michel Amarger in Ecrans d'Afrique/African Screen, Number 23,
1998.
Beti Ellerson
-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene Baer [mailto:docbaer@ticon.net]
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Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 9:56 AM
To: H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU <mailto:H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: African POlitical Films
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: African POlitical Films
Would it be possible for me to find out who submitted this short review of
FLAME? I'm doing some research on the film and would love to talk to
someone about it, especially someone who has spoken with Zimbabweans about
it.
Thanks,
Katrina Daly Thompson
"FLAME: The story of a young woman who joins the guerillas in the 1970s. It
shows all the horrors of the war, but also the situation of women among the
guerilla fighters and how they were expected to retreat into their
submissive role after the end of the war. There was a lot of discussion
about it in Zimbabwe, especially because the director of the film is a white
English woman. But as I learned from a former guerilla (female) it gives a
rather realistic picture of the war."
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Katrina Daly Thompson kdthomp3@students.wisc.edu
<mailto:kdthomp3@students.wisc.edu>
Department of African Languages & Literature 262-5758
UW - Madison
1468 Van Hise Hall
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