| Dangarembga Film to Feature at Indian Festival |
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| Written by Administrator |
| Friday, 08 May 2009 06:27 |
 Tsitsi Dangarembga's film Kare Kare Zvako- Mother's Day will in June feature at the Indian Film Festival in Bhopal. Featuring Consolata Ngwenya and the late veteran actor Nicolas Mazenda, Kare Kare Zvako premiered in Zimbabwe in 2004 has been doing well on the international circuit since then.
Picture: A scene from Kare Kare Zvako- Mother's Day.
The film's Indian expendition comes shortly after it was made part of the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival in France. The short film has also had a run at Sundance, Seoul and Sao Paulo where it grabbed awards that included the Golden Dhow Zanzibar (2005), Short Film Cinemaafricano Milano (2005), Short Film ZIFF (2005), as well as special jury mention at the Amakula International Film Festival in Kampala, Uganda and Slowfood on Film and the Corto in Bra Film Festival in Italy. Based on an old Shona folk tale and rendered as a musical celebrating a diversity of contemporaray Zimbabwean music, the 30 minute film is about a father who pushes his wife away from the family dinner of termites. In anger, when she challenges him, he digs a pit with a brutal purpose-to bury her- but little does he suspect that she can retaliate just as powerfully. Dangarembga's production house Nyerai Films has now teamed up with Filmgramm, a film company from Warsaw, Poland to shoot a second Zimbabwean folktale in the Zambezi valley later this year. Preparations for the film production are under way with acting and cinematography experts from Poland expected in the country soon. - Arts Initiates and Nyerai Films |