Posts Tagged ‘Library of African Cinema’

Tableau ferraille

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Tableau Ferraille
Call Number: VHS00276
by Moussa Sene Absa; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French and Wolof with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1997 (89 mins.);
Summary: Tells the story of an idealistic young politician’s rise and fall. Daam, a well-intentioned but vacillating European-trained politician, must choose between two social paradigms exemplified by his two wives. The film offers a view of how modernization, as practiced in today’s Africa, corrodes traditional communities and retards grassroots development.
OCLC #: 38208060
Added: November 4, 2008
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Saaraba

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Saaraba
Call Number: VHS00272
by Amadou Saalum Seck; Abdoul Aziz Diop; California Newsreel (Firm); Azanie Films.; Société nouvelle de promotion cinématographique.;
Format: VHS
Language: Wolof and French with English subtitles; Title and credits in German
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, 1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1988 (81 mins.);
Summary: A young man returns to his homeland after spending many years in Europe. He and his homeland have changed in the interval and he is caught between his simple upbringing, the Western influence he was exposed to, and the corruption existing around him.
OCLC #: 23137059
Added: November 4, 2008
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Pièces d'identités

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Identity Pieces
Call Number: VHS00264
by Ngangura Mweze.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (93 mins.);
Summary: A Congolese king searches for his daughter in Brussels where for a time he loses his royal fetishes, his identity, but finds a friend, a local cabdriver with a secret identity. With his help and a chain of coincidence (it must be destined), Mani Kongo is reunited with his daughter and his regalia and returns to Africa with a circle of friends.
OCLC #: 48443900
Added: November 4, 2008
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Fintar O Destino

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Dribbling Fate
Call Number: VHS00251
by Fernando Vendrell; Carlos Germano; Betina Lopes; Manuel Estevão; David & Golias (Firm); Radiotelevisão Portuguesa.; California Newsreel (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: Portuguese and Criolo with English subtitles 
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1944 (124 mins.); Based on the novel by Enid Bagnold; Nominated for 5 Academy Awards
Summary: Fintar o destino is the Library of African Cinema’s first sports film — but a sports film with a distinctly African twist. It is the story of the aging sport hero who holds onto his past so strongly he destroys his present. At the same time, this film explores a much broader tension, personal and political, between remaining true to one’s dreams or making the best of the limited opportunities around us
OCLC #: 41109731
Added: November 3, 2008
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La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Call Number: VHS00250
by Lissa Baléra; Taïrou M’Baye; Djibril Diop Mambéty; Silvia Voser; Wasis Diop; Cephéide Productions.; Maag Daan.; Waka Films.;
Format: VHS
Language: Wolof with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], 1999.
Notes: Originally released in 1999 (45 mins.);
Summary: Parable uses the struggles of a young crippled girl in Dakar trying to earn her living in the market place selling newspapers to mirror Africa’s role in the international marketplace.
OCLC #: 42662780
Added: November 3, 2008
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Napumoceno's Will

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno
Call Number: VHS00242
by Francisco Manso; Nelson Xavier; Maria Ceiça; Chico Diaz; Zezé Motta; Vya Negromonte; Milton Gonçalves; Francisco de Assis; Germano Almeida; J.L. Vasconcelos, Lda.; California Newsreel (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles 
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1997 (110 mins.); Based on the novel by Germano de Almeida;
Summary: O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno is an epic, or at least an epic farce, from one of the world’s least known but most culturally complex societies – Cape Verde. This classic tale of the hollowness at the core of provincial bourgeois life introduces English speaking audiences to Germano Almeida, one of the outstanding writers in Portuguese today. With its novelistic breadth, the film offers a bildungsroman of a man and a society so caught up in the pursuit of conventional success and prestige it overlooks its true self almost until it is too late.
OCLC #: 41180395
Added: November 3, 2008
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Finzan: A Dance for the Heroes

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Finzan: A Dance for the Heroes
Call Number: VHS00235
by Cheick Oumar Sissoko; Kora Films (Firm); Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.; Centre national de production cinématographique du Mali.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Bambara and French with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], ©1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1989 (107 mins.);
Summary: Tells the story of two women’s rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow, refuses her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to “inherit” her. Fili, a young girl sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally circumcised by the village women who are scandalized that she resists the age-old custom.
OCLC #: 24261948
Added: October 29, 2008
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