Rafiki Fariala, whose doc ‘We Students!’ became this year the first feature from the Central African Republic to play at the Berlinale, has unveiled at Marrakech’s Atlas Workshop his follow-up, the refugee-themed “Congo Boy.”
Exemplifying the nascent trend towards pan-regional partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa, “Congo Boy” is lead produced by Vicky Nelson Wackoro at Car’s Makongo Films, in co-production with Dieudo Hamadi at the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kiripi Films as wels Caroline Nataf at France’s Unité.
A fiction film, but heavily autobiographical, “Congo Boy” turns on Robert, 17, who lives in the Car’s capital, Bangui, and dreams of a career in music.
With both his parents imprisoned after attempting to flee Car’s civilian reprisals in 2013, however, Robert has to look after work non-stop to feed his four young siblings and has no time to study. A big cash-prize music contest at the local...
Exemplifying the nascent trend towards pan-regional partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa, “Congo Boy” is lead produced by Vicky Nelson Wackoro at Car’s Makongo Films, in co-production with Dieudo Hamadi at the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kiripi Films as wels Caroline Nataf at France’s Unité.
A fiction film, but heavily autobiographical, “Congo Boy” turns on Robert, 17, who lives in the Car’s capital, Bangui, and dreams of a career in music.
With both his parents imprisoned after attempting to flee Car’s civilian reprisals in 2013, however, Robert has to look after work non-stop to feed his four young siblings and has no time to study. A big cash-prize music contest at the local...
- 11/16/2022
- by John Hopewell and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Nothing FactoryBefore we wrap our coverage of Cannes, a few words most definitely should be said for two of the strongest films—both Portuguese—at the Directors’ Fortnight and, indeed, at the festival in general. Both premiered towards the end and may have gotten lost in the dwindling energy and subpar premieres common to the exhausted final days' wind-down, but they are absolutely notable.The Nothing Factory is the film debut of Pedro Pinho, who previously made a short feature and co-directed two documentaries, one of which with Luisa Homem, who edited this new picture, as well as co-wrote it with the production collaborative Terratreme Filmes. Partially based on a Dutch play by Judith Herzberg and inspired by an idea by Jorge Silva Melo (who wrote Manuel Mozo’s unjustly forgotten 1992 masterpiece, Xavier), the film dramatizes the dissolution of an elevator factory in Portugal, an action that sneakily comes...
- 5/31/2017
- MUBI
★★★☆☆ With cigarette in mouth, Italian filmmaker Danièle Incalcaterra rolls into the Paraguayan Chaco - a sparsely populated region - searching for a piece of land that he owns. Thus begins El Impenetrable (2012), a documentary following his quest to rid himself and his brother of the dark, moral cloud that lingers over them and their ownership of the plot. Five-thousand hectares have sat unspoiled ever since their father acquired it (and registered it in the name of his sons) during Alfredo Stroessner's regime. Hoping to undo some of the previous generation's actions, he hopes to donate the land back to the native inhabitants.
For decades, Paraguay existed beneath the harsh rule of Stroessner before he was finally ousted from power in 1989 after a military coup led by General Andres Rodriguez. During his 35-year reign, the country saw civil liberties suspended and dissidents vanish whilst it becoming a haven for drug-dealers, gun-runners...
For decades, Paraguay existed beneath the harsh rule of Stroessner before he was finally ousted from power in 1989 after a military coup led by General Andres Rodriguez. During his 35-year reign, the country saw civil liberties suspended and dissidents vanish whilst it becoming a haven for drug-dealers, gun-runners...
- 7/17/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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