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- News
Algerian, Palestinian projects scoop top prizes at CineGouna Platform 454463
The El Gouna Film Festival’s project development platform showcased 20 projects in development and post-production.
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Somali Oscar submission ‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’ wins at Africa’s Fespaco festival 6t2x1p
Africa’s biggest film festival unfolded in Burkina Faso from October 16 to 23.
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Morocco’s Hicham Lasri says new film ‘Happy Lovers’ will be more mainstream 5c6770
Producer Lamia Chraibi describes it as a black comedy with elements of Irreversible and Fargo.
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Charlotte Boucon talks plans as new director of sales at Orange Studio 5o702j
Sale veteran began new position on September 1 after nearly a decade at SND.
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Netflix and Unesco partner on Sub-Saharan Africa short film competition 2y123w
The six winners will receive a $75,000 production budget and an additional $25,000.
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Fire breaks out at El Gouna Film Festival main venue 6s5c22
The fire at the festival plaza has now been extinguished.
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Somalia selects ‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’ as first ever Oscar submission 472w12
Other African submissions so far include Nabil Ayouch’s Casablanca Beats for Morocco.
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Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Souk unveils inaugural project line-up and jury 2g482y
Five works in progress and 11 films in development due to be showcased at event running December 8-11.
- Reviews
‘Good Madam’: Toronto Review 304v68
Jenna Cato Bass examines the horror of servitude in South Africa’s affluent gated communities
- Features
Jean Luc Herbulot on why TIFF title ‘Saloum’ is “a leap of faith for the audience” 1tel
Mercenaries, myth and mayhem in haunted Senegalese delta.
- News
XYZ Films boards TIFF sales on supernatural thriller ‘Interstate’ from director of festival entry ‘Saloum’ 6a6o5r
Asia Argento, French rapper/actor JoeyStarr, Riccardo Scarmaccio to star.
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Elle Driver picks up Senegalese TIFF Midnight Madness entry ‘Saloum’ (exclusive) 2j1h3v
Film marks first production from Pamela Diop’s pan-African Lacme Studios.
- Reviews
‘Indemnity’: Fantasia Review 6r6s4k
A wrongfully accused man is chased by cops and mercenaries in this paranoid political thriller
- Reviews
‘Mariner Of The Mountains’: Cannes Review 2z6u68
Smooth sailing for Brazil’s Karim Ainouz as he traces his family’s recent past back to Algeria
- Reviews
‘Casablanca Beats’: Cannes Review 555k6b
A vibrant musical from Nabil Ayouch, shot over two years at the cultural centre he founded
- Reviews
‘Neptune Frost’: Cannes Review 1p2c3q
Cyber-musical from Rwanda showing in Directors’ Fortnight displays defiant and dizzying originality
- News
Netherlands, South Africa set up co-development fund (exclusive) 1j3dz
Thuthuka is launching today in Cannes.
- Reviews
‘Lingui: The Sacred Bonds’: Cannes Review 51m3l
A single mother struggles to protect her pregnant daugter in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Cannes Competition title
- News
‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’: first trailer for Cannes Critics’ Week title (exclusive) 73561o
Drama unfolds against the colourful backdrop of Djibouti CIty in Horn of Africa.
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Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s next film among Hubert Bals projects 1j59r
Title revealed of the feature from the director of ‘This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection’.
