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1. African Metropolis : six stories from six African cities [2013]

  • [Johannesburg, South Africa] : Goethe-Institut South Africa, [2013]
Description
Video — 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 18 cm) Sound: digital; optical. Digital: video file; DVD video; region 0.
Summary
  • Homecoming / written and directed by Jim Chuchu ; Awali (11 min., 4 sec.)
  • The cave / Zero Production ; in co-production with Focus Pocus ; written & directed by Ahmed Ghoneimy (approximately 23 min.)
  • The line-up / director, Folasakin Iwajome ; writer, Kemi Adesoye (approximately 14 min.)
  • L'Autre femme / Picture Box présente ; written and directed by Marie KA (approximately 13 min.)
  • To repel ghosts : variation on the last trip of Jean-Michel Basquiant / Banshee Films et Wassakara Productions présentent ; un film de Philippe Lacôte ; written and directed by Philippe Lacôte (approximately 21 min.)
  • Berea / director, Vincent Moloi ; Puo Pha Productions ; writers, Lodi Matsetela, Makgano Mamabolo (13 min., 26 sec.).
A compilation of six short fiction films set in six major African cities. These urban tales have locations in Abidjan, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos, and Nairobi.
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AFRICAAM-133-01, AFRICAST-132-01, COMPLIT-133A-01, COMPLIT-233A-01, CSRE-133E-01, FRENCH-133-01, JEWISHST-143-01

2. Le chant des mariées [videorecording] = The wedding song [2010]

  • [Culver City, CA] : Strand Releasing, [2010]
Description
Video — 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Two 16-year-old girls have an intense friendship while living in Nazi-occupied Tunis in 1942. Nour is a Muslim who eagerly anticipates her wedding to a handsome cousin. Myriam is a French Jew who is furiously resisting her betrothal to a much older doctor. However, his money is needed by her family to pay fines imposed by the Nazis.
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AFRICAAM-133-01, AFRICAST-132-01, COMPLIT-133A-01, COMPLIT-233A-01, CSRE-133E-01, FRENCH-133-01, JEWISHST-143-01

3. Faat Kiné [videorecording] [2001]

  • [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, [200-]
Description
Video — 1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
The drama of Faat Kiné, an independent single mother and business woman who runs a gas station franchise; and also born in 1960, the same year Senegalese independence was attained.
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AFRICAAM-133-01, AFRICAST-132-01, COMPLIT-133A-01, COMPLIT-233A-01, CSRE-133E-01, FRENCH-133-01, JEWISHST-143-01