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Zimbabwe: Eighteen Countries to Participate in Women Film Festival
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The Herald (Harare)
22 November 2007
Posted to the web 22 November 2007
Tatenda Chipungudzanye
Harare
Eighteen countries will this year participate in the Sixth International Images Film Festival for Women that begins on November 30 until December 8 in Harare.
The festival that runs under the theme Fighting Women - will also be held in Bulawayo from December 14 to 16. In a statement, the organisers said that the theme refers to the ongoing exclusion of women from public office and the women who fight for inclusion on acceptable terms. In Harare, feature films and documentaries will be screened in Avondale at Vistarama, Elite 100 and Alliance Francaise while in Bulawayo screening will be at the Rainbow Cinema and the National Gallery.
Harare opens with an Iranian film tilted Mainline on November 30 while the Bulawayo edition opens with a Swedish film titled About Sarah. Mainline is about an uneasy relationship between a mother and her drug-addict daughter, which was the major highlight during the Iranian Fajir Film Festival this year. About Sarah is a story of a young fatherless girl who is obliged to hospitalise her mentally challenged mother and sell their home. When Sarah begins to work, her boyfriend does not buy the house but moves out of her life while another relationship fails when she is promoted ahead of her lover.
The Zimbabwean documentary to be premiered is titled When the Cows Come Home - a 35-minute documentary - by Elizabeth Markham, which was produced by the Ntengwe for Community Development and filmed in Binga. It highlights the plight of women deprived of their property following the deaths of their husbands. Two women tell their stories as the general plight of widows unfolds. Antonia - a Brazilian film written and produced by Tata Amaral - focuses on the ups and downs of a group of female rappers living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. They challenge patriarchy and other obstacles such as being black and women in a male-dominated industry.
Four Minutes is about one Traunde Kruger who gives piano lessons to female prison inmates for decades until she meets Jenny, a young woman convicted of murder who was once considered a child musical prodigy.
This German film becomes intriguing as her attempts to guide her pupil to victory in a music competition leads to a difficult contradictory relationship. Other films to be screened include the Angry Sisters, Becoming Jane and the Best in the Heart, Dixie Chicks and the Road Under the Heavens while documentaries include Another French History and As Old as my Tongue. The festival ends with the inaugural Ndichirimupenyu Award on December 8, which honours women who have made great strides in advancing women's cause particularly those confined to rural areas.
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The festival brings together some of the best films created in the world provided they tell a woman's story.
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