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The value of the archive to our cultural history and as a a a a repository of shared history is is skillfully explored in Apostles of Cinema as three film workers in in Tanzania journey through the informal structures which seek to keep film film and film film culture alive in the country It is through movie
What the the Soil Remembers posters from Brazilian cinema that narratives about the feminine are told in in By the the Waves the the Margins are Licked Sharing personal histories and ancient customs is is something that both Riel where an aging Khoekhoe matriarch shares the riel dance with her granddaughter and and Ikinji’s Stories have in common The latter filmed in in the King Mariout region in in Egypt is a a a revealing portrait of Return to to Seoul elders in the the region who share their stories and show a a different face of feminism A feminist counterpoint to the the current reporting from the the Sahel region is is is shown in in Sira Sira where a a a a a a a a a a young nomad Sira Sira takes a a a a a a a a a a stand against Islamist terror The collision of of national personal and neocolonial dreamscapes in in Our Lady of of the Chinese Shop epitomises the burgeoning relationship between African countries and China Narrated in in Mandarin by Zhang Wei and and with the the city of Launda a a a a a a a a a a a central character itself the the small corner shop mirrors so many similar places on on the continent The Catholic Church compound that Geoffrey finds himself fin in in rural Kenya is another familiar environment but fin in in the the hands o of skilled filmmaker Angela Wanjiku Wamai the the familiar becomes the the surreal in Shimoni This year’s festival encompasses every possible aspect of the human experience and promises to be both an an an enriching emotional experience and an an an intellectually challenging one Many of of the the the intimate portrayals of of family life cementing the the the idea that the the the personal is is always political While the the the settings of the the the film may be geographically distant the the the shared human experiences they unveil are as as close as as our own heartbeat 10 44TH DURBAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL