Reel
Voices' Africa Film Series ~ African Masterworks and Portraits
of Philadelphia’s African Community
Thursday,
December 4 at 7:30pm
Presented by International
House and Scribe Video Center
Beginning in December,
join us the first Thursday of each month for extraordinary films
from the African continent, organized by Philadelphia filmmaker
Filmon Mebrahtu of Reel Voices. Each feature
film will be paired with an excerpt from Mebrahtu’s Rencontrer,
a series of newly produced documentary portraits of remarkable
men and women in West Philadelphia’s growing African community.
Faat
Kine
dir. Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 2001, 35mm, 118 mins, color,
French and Wolof w/ English subtitles
 One
of the most inspiring heroines of recent cinema, Faat Kine is
a brash, bawdy, self-made woman who is managing a gas station,
supporting her mother, and putting two children through college.
Master director Ousmane Sembene’s tribute to the everyday
heroism of African women, the film’s mixture of celebration
and accusation sums up 40 years of path-breaking filmmaking
with a penetrating analysis of the interplay of gender, economics
and power in today's Africa.
preceded by
Rencontrer:
Mali
dir. Filmon Mebrahtu, USA, 2003, Beta SP, 5 mins
Borom
Sarret
dir. Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1964, 35mm, 20 mins, b/w,
French w/ English subtitles
Sembene’s first film (seen here
in a new 35mm print) is a spare masterpiece of protest chronicling
a day in the life of a cart-driver in Dakar.
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