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Summary |
| 100% Arabica |
PN1997 .A23 A14 |
The rising popularity of a local band threatens orthodox religious
groups in a mixed Arab and African housing project outside Paris.
Attendance at the mosque falls and drastic measures are taken to keep
the balance of power in the hands of the religious leaders. No one can
stop the infectious popularity of the music, however, and when all the
musicians finally sing together, everyone is united. |
| 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) |
| Bamako |
PN 1997 .A23 B326 |
Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge
of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other
families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society
representatives have taken proceedings against such international
financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous trial witnesses
air bracing indictments against the multinational economic machinery
that haunts them, life in the courtyard presses forward. |
|
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. |
| Camp de Thiaroye |
PN1997.A23 C3623 |
After defending France, a group of black soldiers are placed in a
transit camp before returning home. As their stay lengthens, tensions
rise until a petty dispute turns into full-scale rebellion. Originally released as a motion picture in Senegal in 1987. |
|
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. |
|
DakDan
/ 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. |
| Everyone's Child |
PN1997.A23 E8475 |
In a rural village in Zimbabwe, Tamari and Itai are devastated following the
tragic death of both their parents. While family and neighbors turn their heads,
the children, left with nothing, are thrust into a world of adult
responsibility. Itai tries his luck in the big city, leaving Tamari at home to
fend for herself and their younger siblings. |
| Faat Kine |
PN1997.A23 F237 |
The deceptively light domestic
drama of Faat Kine, a gas station operator born, significantly, the
same year as Senegalese independence, 1960. |
|
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 |
| Guimba: un tyran, une epoqu+ a tyrant in this time |
PN 1997 .A23 G856 |
A tyrant throws his city into conflict and chaos when he allows his
randy, dwarf son to reject an arranged marriage to the slim local
beauty in order for him to pursue the girl's larger, married mother.
The tyrant then sets his own eyes on the girl, making the situation
even worse. An epic set in the legendary past of Mali (West Africa) to
provide a biting allegory of present-day African politics. Through the
story of the downfall of Guimba the tyrant, the filmmaker foretells a
similar fate for the many dictators who still pillage the continent. He
frames his film with the appearance of a griot, a traditional African
storyteller who passes down the "wisdom of the ancestors," looking to
the values and legends of the African past for inspiration and guidance
in reconstructing well-governed, self-sufficient nations. |
| Karmen Geï |
PN1997.A23 K3735
Language Media Center (HH 113) |
Karmen escapes prison through her lesbian relationship with the warden.
She then wrecks the marriage and career of a police corporal by making
him her lover and co-conspirator in a smuggling ring. She abandons the
corporal who, in a fit of jealous rage, stabs her. Contains much
singing and dancing. |
|
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. |
| Moolaade |
PN 1997 .A23 M664 |
Set in a small village, four young girls face ritual "purification"
decide to flee to the household of Collé Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed
woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter from the
mutilation. Collé invokes the time-honored custom of moolaadé
(sanctuary) to protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing
stand-off pits Collé against village traditionalists. This endangers
the prospective marriage of her daughter to the heir-apparent to the
tribal throne |
|
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. |
| Quartier Mozart |
PN1997.A23 Q387 |
Queen of the 'Hood is a proud young girl who doesn't want to be taken
advantage of by men. She befriends a local sorceress who helps her
enter the body of a young man, My Guy, so she can discover for herself
the real "sexual politics" of the quarter. Meanwhile, the sorceress
assumes the shape of Panka, a familiar comic figure in Cameroonian
folklore with sexual powers. In this sex farce, women's wisdom and
"witchcraft" help to temporarily regain the balance of power in a
sexist world. |
|
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. |
| Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: and more stories from Africa |
PN1992.8 .A5923 W496 |
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: A tall tale sets off a chain of
mishaps in the jungle. Will the jungle creatures ever get the story
straight? A story, a story: Once, all the stories in the world belonged
to Nyanme, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But
Ananse, the Spider Man, wanted them - and caught three sly creatures to
get them. Who's in Rabbit's house?: Rabbit has a problem - someone is
inside her house and won't let her in. Can the leopard, rhino or
elephant help Rabbit get in her house? |
|
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. |
| Yellow Card |
PN1997.A23
Y454 |
Set in Zimbabwe, this is "a fast-paced, funny and touching story of teenage
love, lust for life and passion for football," i.e., soccer. |
| Yesterday |
PN1997 .A23 Y478 |
After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her
husband in denial and a young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal
is to live long enough to see her child go to school. Set against the
awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa. |