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Summary |
| Africa Dreaming.
San Francisco, CA : California
Newsreel, 1997. |
PN1997.A23 A35 |
"Four short films on love from
Namibia, Mozambique, Senegal, Tunisia"--Container. |
| Bab
el-oued city/
Jacques Bidou, Jean Pierre Gallèpe, Merzak Allouache, présentent ; un film
de Merzak Allouache ; une production Les Matins Films, Flash Back
Audiovisual, La Sept Cinéma, ZDF, Thelma Film AG. |
PN1997.A23
B227 |
"Bab El-Oued, a
popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem
(Hassan Abdou) works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that
was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word ... therefore
preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the
Islamists to put the district under their control."--Yepok (Internet Movie
Database Ltd) |
|
Battle of Algiers
/ Stella
Productions ; Saadi Yacef & Casbah Films-Algiers present a film by Gillo
Pontecorvo ; produced by Saadi Yacef, Casbah Films-Algiers and Antonio Musu,
Igor Films of Rome ; directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. |
PN1997.A23
B3846 |
Dramatization of the
conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonialists that
culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962. |
|
Ça twiste à Poponguine =
Rocking Poponguine
/ une coproduction Cámeras Continentales, France 2, RTS ; un film de Moussa
Sene Absa. |
PN1997.A23 C2 |
A comedy set
during the last week before Christmas, 1964, in a remote beachside village,
where the local teenagers are divided into rival cultural camps. |
|
Chocolat
/ Cinemanuel-MK2 Productions-Cerito Films-La S.E.P.T.-Caroline Productions-TFI
Films Production. |
PN1997.A23
C476 |
A young woman has
returned to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the sights, sounds and smells
return her to her childhood, and memories of the people who populated her
youth. |
|
Clandestine = Clando
/ Les Films du Raphia ; un film de Jean-Marie Teno. |
PN1997.A23
C577 |
Sobgui, a former
computer programmer, drives a "clando" cab in Douala, Cameroon's streets. He
is clandestine, not just because his cab is unlicensed, but because he is
hiding from his past. When a radical political group involves him in a
revenge slaying of an informer, Sobgui knows that it is time to get out of
Douala. He gets his chance when he is asked to find a wealthy villager's son
in Germany. The film represents a dilemma facing educated Africans: whether
to work to change the autocratic regimes at home or seek their fortunes
abroad. |
|
Dakan
/ Les Films du 20éme et La Sept
Cinéma ; director, Mohamed Camara. |
PN1997.A23 D34 |
Dakan is the first feature film
on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa. It also is a contemporary African
reinterpretation of the age-old Romeo and Juliet conflict between love and
social convention. |
|
A door on the sky = B¯ab
al-Sam¯a' Maft¯uh
/ Hassan Daldoud presents a film by Farida Ben
Lyzaid ; a co-production of France Media (France) ... [et al.]. |
PN1997.A23
D667 |
A young woman
struggles between her Moroccan heritage and adopted French culture. Social
commentary on issues relating to the North African-French culture clash. |
|
Finzan
/ une co-production, Kora Films, ZDF, CNPC ; scénario et réalisation, Cheick
Oumar Sissoko. |
PN1997.A23
F535 |
Tells the story of
two women's rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow, refuses her brother-in-law,
the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her.
Fili, a young girl sent from the city by her conservative father, is
brutally circumcised by the village women who are scandalized that she
resists the age-old custom. |
|
La Genese = Genesis
/ une coproduction Kora Films, Balazan, CNPC, Cinema Public Films ; un film
de Cheick Oumar Sissoko. |
PN1997.A23
G4548 |
Genesis is given a
new spin which recasts a famous story by relocating it in the nation of Mali
and using a cast of African actors. Covering Chapters 23-37, it recounts the
story of Esau whose birthright is stolen by his brother Jacob in exchange
for a plate of beans. This allegorical tale combines an accurate
interpretation of the Biblical story with relevant allusions to African
history and culture. |
|
The Gods must be crazy
/ C.A.T. Films ; a 20th Century Fox release ; written, produced, directed,
filmed and edited by Jamie Uys. |
PN1997.A23
G637 |
Often slapstick
comedy about the Bushman Xi and the strange people that he encounters and
the many strange adventures that he has on his journey to the end of the
earth where he intends to throw away the "evil thing," an empty Coca Cola
bottle which dropped out of the sky, which has brought anger, jealousy and
violence for the first time to the usually happy and harmonious community of
Bushmen. |
|
Le Grand blanc de Lambaréné
=
The great white man of Lambaréné / L.N.
Production ... [et al.]. |
PN1997.A23 G724 |
Revisits the history of
colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. "Ba Kobhio discovers a
man blinded to the people around him by his own spiritual self-absorption
and arrogance. For Schweitzer to see himself as as a stern but loving
father, he had to cast Africans as childlike primitives whom he could
protect from the temptations of modernity."--www.newsreel.org/films/legrandb.htm |
|
Mapantsula
/ produced by Max Montocchio ; screenplay by Oliver Schmitz, Thomas
Mogotlane ; directed by Oliver Schmitz. |
PN1997.A23 M363 |
After he is jailed a small-time
hoodlum in South Africa comes to realize that there is more to life than
panhandling. |
|
Master Harold ... and the boys
/ producer, Iris Merlis ; director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg. |
PN1997.A23
M377 |
A young white man's
frustration with the return home of his alcoholic, handicapped father turns
into racist viciousness against the two black men who work for the family. |
|
Mortu nega
= Those whom
death refused / Instituto nacional de Cinema apresenta ; um filme de Flora
Gomes. |
PN1997.A23
M675 |
"In 1973,
independence was proclaimed [in Guinea Bissau], ending five centuries of
Portuguese colonization and a decade of armed struggle. [This film], Gomes'
first feature-length film, portrays this critical period in history through
the story of one woman, Diminga, whose husband is fighting on the front
lines. The camera captures Cabral's assassination, the ending of
hostilities, and the reconstruction of the economically and spiritually
devastated country struggling with drought and famine. The term "Mortu Nega"
means those that death did not want, and Gomes films a ceremony using 3000
extras, in which survivors call upon the dead, asking them how they can go
on living in such terrible conditions"--Le monde Cannes, '96 supplement, May
10. |
|
Omar Gatlato = Omar
it-kills-him
/ O.N.C.I.C. presents a film by Merzak
Allouache ; written and directed by Merzak Allouache. |
PN1997.A23
O463 |
Film about the life
of a romantic would-be macho man. This film held up a mirror to Algerian
male culture and the mirror cracked. |
|
Overseas = Outremer
/ Paul E. Cohen presents an Aries
Film release ; a co-production between Paradise Productions and Lira Films ;
directed by Brigitte Roüan. |
PN1997.A23
O954 |
For three beautiful
sisters, the lush and privileged life of French colonial Algeria creates an
oasis in the center of a harsh desert when revolution and dramatic social
change erupts around them. |
|
Samt al-qus¯ur = The
silences of the palace = Les silences du palais
/ a Mat Films, Cinétéléfilms, Magfilm coproduction ; a Capitol Entertainment
release.. |
PN1997.A23
S5644 |
Set in Tunisia in
the 1950s, in the sunset years of its last monarchs, this film is the story
of Alia, a child of the palace but not a princess, at a time when female
servants were expected to be sexually available to the men they served, and
the terrifying silence imposed on women in the Arab-Muslim world. |
|
Taafe fanga = Pouvoir de pagne
= Skirt power
/ un film de Adama Drabo ; une coproduction Taare Films. |
PN1997.A23 T23 |
In an eighteenth
century Dogon village, the women terrorize the men into assuming traditional
women's roles. |
|
Ta Dona
/ Kora
Film et le C.N.P.C.-Mali ; direction de production, Mamadou Kaba ; écrit et
réalisé par Adama Drabo. |
PN1997.A23 T2 |
Tells the story of
the quest for secret knowledge by a young Bambara man. While working in a
peasant village, the hero, Sidy, searches for the seventh "canari", a
forgotten, secret Bambara herbal remedy used in childbirth. Faced with a
scorching drought and a corrupt government, Sidy manages to save the village
and rediscover the seventh "canari". |
|
Wênd
Kûuni = Le don de Dieu
/ La Direction du Cinéma ; un film produit par la Republique de Haute-Volta
; réalisateur, Gaston Kaboré ; scripte, Marie-Jeanne Kanyala ; producteur
délégué, Gaston J.M. Kaboré. |
PN1997.A23 W45 |
A mute foundling is raised in an
African village by a weaver and his family. The mute regains his powers of
speech only after a shock, then reveals his origins and reasons for
dumbness. |
|
A wife for my son = Une
femme pour mon fils
/ L'office national pour le commerce et l'industrie cinematographique
presents a film by Ali Ghanem ; written by J. Narcy and Ali Ghanem ;
directed by Ali Ghanem. |
PN1997.A23
W544 |
At age 18, Fatiha
divides her time between home and school. When her parents decide to marry
her to Hussein, her only choice is to submit to their wishes. The film
profiles the psychology of the "married wife" in modern Algeria. |
|
Xala = The curse
/ Argos Films and the British Film Institute [present] a film written and
directed by Sembene Ousmane. |
PN1997.A23
X26 |
A bitter and
satirical film set in a mythical African country (closely resembling
Senegal) where a rich, self-made businessman and member of the post-colonial
ruling elite takes on a third wife to show the world his wealth, only to be
stricken by a curse resulting in impotency. His efforts at getting cured
lead to disastrous results. |