Published by the government of Zimbabwe
Ruth Butaumocho
20 November 2008
Harare — TWO Zimbabwean short films will premiere at this years' International Images Film Festival for Women, which begins tomorrow.
The two -- Sharing Day and Wedding Dress -- would be featured together with 50 other films from across the globe that highlight different themes on women.
Running under the theme "Enriching Women", the festival will also showcase several other short films that were produced by the Zimbabwe International Film Festival Trust and the Child Survival, in a bid to promote and encourage local productions at such international events.
The two local films, Sharing Day and Wedding Dress, both from Tsitsi Dangarembga, highlight the trials and tribulations people infected and affected with HIV and Aids go through.
In Sharing Day, an HIV positive woman dies leaving her infected young child with an aunt. The young sick girl is ill-treated by the aunt, leading to her death, while in Wedding Dress a prospective bride can't wait to get married to her childhood sweetheart and she spends time planning for a perfect wedding.
Her preparations, however, hit a snag when she fails to get a wedding dress. Determined to walk down the aisle with her man, she gets a sugar daddy who promises to buy her the wedding dress. However, the wedding dream turns into a nightmare when she discovers that the sugar daddy did not only buy her a wedding dress but also infected her with HIV.
The festival, which runs from tomorrow until November 29 in Harare will feature films and documentaries that will be screened at Vistarama, Elite, Gallery Delta and Centre of the South in the Harare Gardens, while in Bulawayo a mini festival slated for December 4 to 7 will take place at Rainbow Bulawayo Centre, the National Gallery, Academy of Music, Robert Sibson Hall and Amakhosi Cultural Centre.
Other films to look forward to include a Swedish movie titled Black Island Sisters, where we meet three women in different stages of life: a middle-aged single mother who is desperately lonely, increasingly alcoholic and negligent of her son; an optimistic and candid woman who cares for her elderly father; and a beautiful young girl who dreams of becoming a songwriter.
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