Documentary filmmakers are better at spreading the word about their new work on the web compared to fiction directors, or there’s just more documentary films being made. (Or I’m looking in the wrong places.) Here are ten more films to watch out for. First, four fiction features: A Menina dos Olhos Grandes (“The girl with the big eyes”) is based on a popular story from Cape Verde: a “creole girl” returns from Europe to her homeland due to the sudden death of her father where she will come up against an unfamiliar reality and ghosts of her past. Trailer above. (Also check this older trailer to get another feel of the film.)
Tourbillon à Bamako (“Swirl in Bamako”).
Synopsis:
A wild chase in search of a lottery ticket through the streets of Bamako.
Film Details:
Country: Mali
Director: Dominique Philippe
Production: Babel Films
Cast: Chek Oumar Sidibé, Mama Koné, Fatoumata Coulibaly
The film’s Facebook page has a trailer.
A Lovers Call is a short film by Najma Nuriddin about Aasim, a young single Muslim man living in Washington DC who falls for a poet named Kala. The film is filed in the portfolio of Nsoroma Films, a US-based production house “of the African diaspora … dedicated to telling organic stories.” Here’s a trailer:
Full feature on Africa is a country.
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