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Michael Hammon & Jacqueline Görgen: Hillbrow Kids
(1999)
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an
unknown reality
The
recent short films and documentaries from South Africa featured
in four screenings of Tampere Film Festival 2000 provide
an extensive look of the country today. Young directors'
short films deal boldly with issues brought by the era of
emerging democracy. Reasons for street violence and the
bleak crime rate are often contemplated by means of drama.
Home
Sweet Home (1999), a powerful student film by
the 20-year-old Norman Maake, is a rough story about
the homecoming of a young girl after her studies abroad.
Democracy has not helped to put an end to corruption, violence,
and rape; instead, she encounters them even in her own family.
D
= documentary
F = fictive
| SOUTH-AFRICA
1: New short films 1 |
| Thu
9.3. Tampere-talo Studio 20.00 |
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1. Teboho Mahlatsi: PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG
MAN DROWNING, South-Africa 1999,
F
2. Dumisani Phakati: AN OLD WIFE'S
TALE, South-Africa 1998, F
3. Jeremy Handler: HUSK, South-Africa
1999, F
4. Khalo Matebane: YOUNG LIONS,
South-Africa 1999, D
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| SOUTH-AFRICA
2: Hillbrow Kids |
| Fri
10.3. Tullikamari Pakkahuone 20.00 |
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Michael Hammon & Jacqueline Görgen: HILLBROW
KIDS, South-Africa 1999, D
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| SOUTH-AFRICA
3: The Years of Exile |
| Fri
10.3. Tampere-talo Studio 16.00 |
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1. Khalo Matebane: THE WAITER, South-Africa
1998, D
2. Koto Bolofo: THE LAND IS WHITE,
THE SEED IS BLACK, United States 1996, D
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| KIRIKOU
AND THE SORCERESS |
| Sat
11.3. Tullikamari Pakkahuone 16.00 |
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Michel Ocelot: KIRIKOU ET LA SORCIERE / KIRIKOU
AND THE SORCERESS , France 1998, A
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| SOUTH-AFRICA
4: New Short films 2 |
| Sat
11.3. Tampere-talo Studio 12.00 |
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1. Brian Tilley: LUCKY DAY, South-Africa
1999, F
2. Tim Greene: KAP AN DRIVER,
South-Africa 1998, F
3. Antjie Krog, Ronelle Loots: THE
UNFOLDING OF SKY, South-Africa 1999, D
4. Zola Maseko: THE FOREIGNER,
South-Africa 1998, F
5. Norman Maake: HOME SWEET HOME,
South-Africa 1998, F
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Zola
Maseko's The Foreigner (1998) deals with a
topical subject: other Africans, who immigrate to South
Africa in search of work, are not tolerated. Teboho
Mahlatsi's Portrait of a Young Man Drowning
(1999), awarded in Venice, is a visually magnificent, multi-layered
story of a killer.
Jeremy
Handler's Husk (1999), which was accepted
to the official Cannes Short Film Festival, is a thriller
about a young girl who lives in a small town. An Old
Wife's Tale (1998) is an entertaining film about a Boer
farmer contemplating the new opportunities brought by equality.
The
theme of the documentary screening is the destiny of the
people who were in exile during the era of apartheid. The
Land Is White, The Seed Is Black (1995) by Koto Bofolo
is a documentary in which the father of the director returns
home after a number of years in exile. Khalo Matebane's
The Waiter (1998) features interviews with the family
members of the freedom fighters who disappeared during their
years as refugees.
Michel Ocelot: Kirikou and the sorceress (1998)
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HILLBROW
KIDS, Michael Hammon, Jacqueline Görgen, South
Africa 1999, 94 min
The end of apartheid drove many children from the townships
to Johannesburg, where they hoped to make some money. The
grim reality, however, is that they spend their time begging
and sniffing glue. Street kids in the violent jungle of
Johannesburg.
KIRIKOU
AND THE SORCERESS, Michel Ocelot, France 1998, 75 min
Based on a West African folktale the animated film tells
about the tiny Kirikou who saves his village from a wickedd
sorceress. Michel
Ocelot´s first animation feature follows several award-winning
short animations.
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