Tsitsi Dangarembga
Nacimiento : , Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Historia
Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Screenplay
The story of young Kundisai Sande who desperately wants to get married but finds herself in a sexual network with disastrous consequences. Her boyfriend Teri deserts her, only to find himself in the same sexual network. Mahachi, the successful, promiscuous businessman who seduces Kundisai brings infection to the marriage bed. In the midst of their misery, the players in the sexual network come to realize that One Love can conquer all.
Director
The story of young Kundisai Sande who desperately wants to get married but finds herself in a sexual network with disastrous consequences. Her boyfriend Teri deserts her, only to find himself in the same sexual network. Mahachi, the successful, promiscuous businessman who seduces Kundisai brings infection to the marriage bed. In the midst of their misery, the players in the sexual network come to realize that One Love can conquer all.
Director
Based on the traditional story of Nyami Nyami, the snake god of the waters of the Zambesi. An evil divinity emerges from the river and the population of a village plagued by drought remain spellbound by it. The women who had intercourse with him will give birth to demonic eggs. The goddess Nyami Nyami, who has the power to save her people, sends a messenger to the village to fight the demon.
Co-Director
A young film maker's journey through one of Zimbabwe's greatest taboos. A young woman media studies student is fascinated by the uproar about homosexuality in Zimbabwe, and the people her society condemns. Courageously, Porcia sets out to approach a taboo by looking compassionately at the lives of gay people in Zimbabwe.
Director
Drought has struck. Father pushes his wife away from the family dinner of termites. In anger, when mother challenges him, he digs a pit with a brutal purpose, but little does he suspect that Mother can retaliate just as powerfully. Based on an old Shona folk tale and rendered as a musical celebrating a diversity of contemporaray Zimbabwean music, Mother's Day is the newest and most exciting motion picture development to come out of Zimbabwe.
Writer
Drought has struck. Father pushes his wife away from the family dinner of termites. In anger, when mother challenges him, he digs a pit with a brutal purpose, but little does he suspect that Mother can retaliate just as powerfully. Based on an old Shona folk tale and rendered as a musical celebrating a diversity of contemporaray Zimbabwean music, Mother's Day is the newest and most exciting motion picture development to come out of Zimbabwe.
Director
Pamvura (At the Water) is a story about beliefs and unknown forces. Netsai, a devout young christian woman, she loses her child while doing laundry at the river. She does not know the cause behind her child´s disappearance. What does she do to get her son back, where does she go for consultations about her little son´s disappearance and how she can get him back to her. Yet as much as she wants he son back, she finds it hard in her christian life to make a sacrifice of life. Find out in Pamvura what happens when faith is stronger than religion
Screenplay
Pamvura (At the Water) is a story about beliefs and unknown forces. Netsai, a devout young christian woman, she loses her child while doing laundry at the river. She does not know the cause behind her child´s disappearance. What does she do to get her son back, where does she go for consultations about her little son´s disappearance and how she can get him back to her. Yet as much as she wants he son back, she finds it hard in her christian life to make a sacrifice of life. Find out in Pamvura what happens when faith is stronger than religion
Writer
Two teens, Tamari and Itai, are impoverished following the death of their parents when their uncle takes their plow which they need to feed themselves. While their preoccupied neighbors in the village ignore them, Itai leaves for Harare and Tamari stays behind to care for their younger brother and sister. Finally, some of the neighbors notice and come together to support the children.
Director
Two teens, Tamari and Itai, are impoverished following the death of their parents when their uncle takes their plow which they need to feed themselves. While their preoccupied neighbors in the village ignore them, Itai leaves for Harare and Tamari stays behind to care for their younger brother and sister. Finally, some of the neighbors notice and come together to support the children.
Director
With ironic emphasis, the film examines an Afro beauty shop on Kantstrasse in Berlin. Customers describe their experiences in post-reunification Berlin and at the same time convey a small product knowledge of hair straighteners and bleaching creams.
Story
A Zimbabwean widow (Jesesi Mungoshi) falls prey to her greedy brother-in-law (Dominic Kanaventi) who takes her children and belongings.
Wanjiru Kinyanjui was born in Kenya in 1958. Before becoming a filmmaker, she was a writer, poet, and radio journalist. She obtained her master’s degree in English Literature and German in Berlin before enrolling in the German Film and Television School (dffb) there. This film consists of several interviews with people of colour and talks about their view on racism in Germany.
