2023 Cannes Film Festival winners: Molly Manning Walker’s directorial feature debut How to Have Sex was named the Un Certain Regard sidebar’s Best Film. Mia McKenna-Bruce stars.
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Apartheid Movies: Focus on White South Africans criticized in films (usually made by/with British and American talent) such as A World Apart and Cry Freedom.
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Nelson Mandela Movies: South African guerrilla fighter turned political prisoner turned president portrayed reverentially by American or British actors.
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Call Me Kuchu (movie 2012) review: Though focused on anti-gay bigotry in Uganda, this well-made documentary is a reminder that deadly hate is a global plague.
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Egyptian movie star Ahmed Zaki is best remembered for playing presidents Gamal Abdul Nasser and Anwar Sadat in flag-waving historical dramas.
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A Carmen-inspired South African ‘dance movie,’ German anti-Nazi fighters and a Taiwanese watermelon sex tale are Berlin’s top Golden Bear winners.
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Yesterday (movie 2004) review: Darrell Roodt’s Oscar-nominated Zululand-set AIDS drama is a must-see partly thanks to a sensational central performance by Leleti Khumalo.
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Carthage Film Festival Awards: Tunisia’s Arab cinema showcase has bestowed top honors on a socially conscious Moroccan drama. Omar Sharif and Youssef Chahine were among those in attendance.
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Generally overlooked in most of the world, African cinema is the focus of one of the Toronto Film Festival’s sidebars. Key title: Ousmane Sembene’s most recent film, the Burkina Faso-set …
NSFC Awards surprise: A Clint Eastwood melodrama is the unexpectedly mainstream winner of the generally more ‘esoteric’ U.S.-based critics group.