Out In Africa April Festival has a line-up of international award-winning films, features and a documentary, that cover all the bases – popular revolution, ballet, romance, drama, and an insightful look at a clash of cultures. For the full programme click here.
Among the international award-winners are:
HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (Dir: David France USA / 2012 / 120min), an Oscar 2013 nominee for Best Documentary, is the triumphant recounting of a popular revolution – the demand for treatment for HIV – that mobilised people in their 1,000s. It uses precious archival footage and features such luminaries as Larry Kramer and Bill Clinton, and the less luminous George H.W Bush and Jesse Helms.
IFP Gotham Awards – Best Documentary
Boston Film Critics Awards – Best Documentary Screenings in partnership with Health4Men
ZENNE DANCER (Dirs: M. Caner Alper & Mehmet Binay Turkey / 2012 / 99min), beautifully shot drama that exposes the harsh traditions of Turkish culture – the power of the army, religion and the sanctioned horror of the family ‘honour killing’.
2011 Antalya FF Golden Orange – Best Cinematographer / Best First Film / Best Supporting Actor & Actress
2011 Turkish Film Critics Association Award – Best Film
2012 Nuremberg Film Festival – Öngören Prize awarded to the Directors
Courtesy of Lufthansa Airlines, Caner Alper & Mehmet Binay will be attending the Film Fest in CT t the Saturday 20th screening.
TOMBOY (Dir: Céline Sciamma France/ 2011 / 82min)
Sciamma’s first film, Water Lilies, was included in the 2007 Cannes Un certain regard. Her second – Tomboy – is an exploration of mistaken gender identity in a 10 year old and the freedom, pleasure and pain that brings.
2011 Berlinale Teddy Award winner
2011 Odessa IFF – Golden Duke
2011 San Francisco Frameline G&LFF – Audience Award
2011 Philadelphia QFest L&GFF – Best Feature
2011 NewFest – Jury award for Best Performance – Zoé Héran as Laure / Mickäel
Screens with Chloe Likes Olivia
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute, international guests, Director Mette Kjærgaard and writer Jenny Lund Madsen, will present their short film Chloe Likes Olivia. Watch the website for details of the two filmmaking workshops they will be running in JHB and CT.
SWAN LAKE 3D (Dirs: Ross MacGibbon, Matthew Bourne UK / 2012 / 120min)
Bourne’s gender-bending version of the Russian classic has been round the world 4 times, and garnered 30 international theatre awards, including a Tony. Here it is in vibrant 3D.
Courtesy of the British Council
FOUR (Dir: Joshua Sanchez USA / 2012 / 75min)
Sanchez (winner of the 2003 HBO Films Young Producer’s Development Award) delivers an assured début, based on award-winning playwright Christopher Shinn’s play, this intelligent examination of two relationships does not eschew issues of desire, age or race. Neil LaBute, award-winning director of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbours, is the Executive Producer.
2012 Urbanworld FF – Best Narrative Feature
2012 Los Angeles Film Festival – Ensemble Acting Award
Jerome Foundation’s Film and Video grant
BEYOND THE WALLS Hor les murs (Dir: David Lambert Belgium/Canada/France 2012 98min)
Selected for the 2012 Cannes Critic’s Week Lambert’s début (writer/director) examines the shifting dynamics in a relationship. The finely drawn characters, and appealing performances from the leads, enhance this depiction of a gay relationship.
2012 – 65th Cannes Film Festival International Critics Week – Grand Golden Rail Award (Grand Rail d’Or) – Best Feature
2012 Paris Lesbian Film Festival – People’s Award – Best Performance, Matila Malliarakis & Guillaume Gouix
INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR (Dirs: James Franco & Travis Mathews USA / 2013 / 60min)
A curiosity from Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee, James Franco. William Friedkin’s gay cult classic Cruising, starring Al Pacino, was cut by 40 minutes in order to allow for a wider release. Franco and Mathews hour-long doc explores Hollywood’s homophobia, and professional and personal boundaries during the re-creation of that imagined lost footage.
The Out In Africa Film Festival is sponsored by the NFVF, Hivos, The Times, British Council, City of Cape Town, Lufthansa + Swiss Airlines, 6 Spin Street, Graton Guest House, Rutland Lodge & our ever generous 8333 members!
