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gregor-samsung · 2 years

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Potato Potahto (Shirley Frimpong-Manso - 2017)

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grunge-samurai · 7 months

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Beau Travail is such a beautiful film. So ethereal and dream-like. Touches on themes such as masculinity, the human condition, desire and repression. Denis Lavant stars as Galoup, reminiscing about his days in the French Foreign Legion, his admiration for his commanding officer, and an ensuing, bitter rivalry with a recently arrived private. His performance evokes this uncanny feeling to it that only memories are able to achieve. Undoubtedly my favorite film from Claire Denis. That ending will stay with you for a long time. A true masterpiece and a trascendent achievement of cinema.

#beau travail #1999 #cinema #film #art house #arthouse film #cinematic experience #denis lavant #claire denis #french cinema #french foreign legion #legion etrangere #djibouti #africa #lgbt #masculinity

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jeremiasdorap · 1 year

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allthebrazilianpolitics · 3 months

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Sao Paulo Industry Driver Spcine Builds Ties With Africa

With the exception of Nigeria’s Nollywood, which produces an average of 2,500 films a year, Africa’s “potential as a film powerhouse remains largely untapped” despite great strides in production, according to a Unesco report.

Brazil’s Spcine, the city of São Paulo’s film-TV body, is hoping to change the status quo. Since it launched the country’s first international film incentive policy in 2019, Spcine has played a vital role in fostering the Brazilian audiovisual industry worldwide. In 2020, it spearheaded a strategy to strengthen ties with the African continent, particularly in markets with the strongest growth potential, led by Nigeria and South Africa. The move makes sense, given that Brazil is home to the largest black population outside of Africa and the third-largest in the world, with over 79 million Afro-descendants.

In 2022, Spcine participated in key audiovisual events in Africa, particularly the Pan-African Film and Television Festival (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso and in Nigeria where it took part in targeted meetings and visits, seeking to close business deals and strategic partnerships with distribution and production studios, training institutes, film schools and festival heads.

More recently, Spcine sent a delegation to the Durban FilmMart in South Africa, held between July 20 and 30, 2023, which highlights the foundations of the African film industry.

#brazil #politics #cinema #antiracism #africa #brazilian politics #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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dailyworldcinema · 1 year

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RIDING WITH SUGAR (2020) dir. Sunu Gonera

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allweknewisdead · 2 years

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Fata Morgana (1971) - Werner Herzog Im Paradies gibt es Landschaft auch ohne Sinn.

#werner herzog #fata morgana #film #film still #quote #watched in st louis #70s film #documentary #paradise #german cinema #africa #sense #sinn

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akonoadham · 8 months

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#Egypt #hebrew #black history #Africa #Bible stories #black cinema #cinema #bible history #black actors #black actresses #free mason #magick

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thattunisiandude · 1 year

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Italian actress Claudia Cardinale (left) with Tunisian actress and singer Hsiba Rushdi (right) in 1958 movie ‘ Juha ’ جحا .

#tunisia #north africa #africa #berber #tunisian #arab #maghreb #vintage #amazigh #cinephile #cinema #art #claudia cardinale #italy #1950's #50's #50's movies #film #movie #movies

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idmagazinecur8 · 3 months

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Thelma Okorie, i-D Magazine

#i-d #i-d magazine #id magazine #magazine #magazines #nollywood #nigeria #celebrity #africa #cinema #cur8 #beauty

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zef-zef · 4 months

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Horror Cinema for the Ears

Khodumodumo - Trapped in Deluded and Helpless Loops from: Khodumodumo - What The Fuck Are You Doing This Side? (Nostalgie de la boue, 2023)

#2020s #South Africa #Khodumodumo #Electronic #Experimental #Dark Ambient #Horror Cinema for the Ears #dark #uncomfortable #unnerving #Nostalgie de la boue #2023 #week 50 2023 #Bandcamp

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oldtvandcomics · 4 months

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Guys, guys, GUYS! (gender neutral)

There is this new movie on Netflix, Runs In The Family (2023). GO WATCH IT.

It's a South African dramedy about a transgender boy and his single father who go on a road trip to break his birthmother out of a hospital. Then the protagonist's drag partner hurts their foot, and THE FATHER JUMPS IN AND DOES A DUAL DRAG NUMBER WITH HIS SON.

It's this beautifully messy family story, with a wonderful father-son relationship at its heart. From South Africa. Also, it's in English, you don't even need subtitles.

Feels like something Tumblr would appreciate.

#my life improved 110% when I started watching foreign queer movies #as in 'actually foreign' France and Germany don't count #obviously #you just get the most beautifully human stories delivered in beautiful movie format to you from all corners of the world #so glad to see more from Africa too #India meanwhile is obviously the best but they also have the biggest movie industry so it's not really surprising #anyway go watch foreign queer movies #queer cinema #african cinema #South African cinema #movie rec #netflix movie

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randomberlinchick · 11 months

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‘Older straight men hated my films with a vengeance’: how 90s queer film-makers shook up cinema | Film | The Guardian

Philadelphia might have been a commercially risky enterprise, but for those making Dakan, any jeopardy was immediate and physical: homosexuality was (and is) illegal in Guinea. The director, Mohamed Camara, had such difficulty finding actors for the lead roles that he begged his own brother, Mamady, to star. Mamady and his eventual on-screen partner kept their respective girlfriends nearby on set so that they could fall into the women’s arms for a replenishing kiss between takes. That may not sit well in our age of authentic casting, but it’s worth noting that an indignant passion endures in the film’s love scenes. There were occasions, too, when Camara found it necessary to sneak off after introducing screenings of Dakan to avoid butting heads with protesters. Djibril Diop Mambéty, the great Senegalese director of Touki Bouki, told him: “You can be sure that your career is over, but in 100 years, people will still talk about you.”

This article is like a mini-history of queer cinema, and the screenings at the Barbican sound great! The headline quote is from Monika Treut.

#queer cinema #lgbtq+#mohamed camara #dakan #queer cinema in africa #monika treut

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celluloidrainbow · 2 years

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THE WORLD UNSEEN (2007) dir. Shamim Sarif In 1950s Cape Town, progressive and free Amina co-owns a cafe with a black man named Jacob. One day, a beautiful housewife named Miriam visits the cafe, and Amina is instantly smitten. Miriam runs a store outside of town with her husband, Omar, and feels increasingly stifled in her conventional life. She cannot help but give in to her desire when Amina comes calling. (link in title)