Joburg Film Festival: African Shorts Package

AFRICAN SHORTS PACKAGE

04 Nov 16:00

DIRECTORS: KARIM BOUKHARI, AZIM MOOLLAN, OMAR BELKACEMI, LAMOHANG JEREMIAH MOSESE, SITRAKA RAUNDRIAMAHALY, FABIEN DAO, TAMI RAVID, MOUNA NANJI, NG’ENDO MUKII.

LANGUAGE: Oginal version/ English subtitles

DURATION: 115’

COUNTRIES: MOROCCO, MAURITIUS, LESOTHO, ALGERIA, BURKINA FASO, MADAGASCAR, BENIN, KENIA

YEAR: 2015/2016

SYNOPSIS

LA PERRUQUE BY KARIM BOUKHARI

A cinema, an afternoon like other punctuated by the sounds of the city, and a young man taking his ticket, returns and dresses up as woman inside the room. But all does not go as planned.

ROD ZEGWI DAN PIKAN BY AZIM MOOLLAN

In this gorgeous animated visual essay, a woman meditates on the trials and tribulations she has experienced in her past. A highly original exploration of a complex and troubled life.

LMUJA BY OMAR BELKACEMI

Redouane, an Algerian journalist and writer, decides to return to his home country to write about multiple suicides in the 1990s in Bejaia, he lives with his sister Latifa. He has experienced the depressive life his brother lived and ended up committing suicide.

ENEMOTH BY Lamohang Jeremiah Mosese

An itinerant preacher proclaims to people that their god is in the very coffin he is dragging along.

LE SON DU SERPENT BY Tami Ravid

Experimental dance film in which an African man feverishly searches for his missing wife. Gradually the film turns into a road movie, set partly in a supernatural reality. While the man keeps on wandering and looking for his love in this world, he realizes he may have lost her here. 

ROUGH LIFE By Sitraka Raundriamahaly

Synopsis

If you were born without anything and your future isn't clear, rise up and walk!

LE CAIMAN DE BOROMO BY FABIEN DAO

There's a wedding tomorrow in Boromo. Nobody wants Ali and Abdou to be DJs for the party. But Abdou will find a way for a girl he fancies.

ASHA BY MEENA NANYI

In Nairobi, a housemaid is stopped by the police simply because she has "the wrong name". She tries to appeal to the officer's common sense.

THIS MIGRANT BUSINEDD BY NG’ENDO MUKII

A film about the systems that exist that enable and exploit African migrants seeking better lives in the Middle East and Europe. The system creates a cyclic force that ensures that demand and supply will continue to feed into each other, indefinitely. This is a lucrative trade.