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Documentary By Nigerian Director To Premiere At Berlinale 2022
NO U- Turn, a documentary film by Nigerian director Ike Nnaebue, is to have its world premiere at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival otherwise called Berlinale. The documentary, a Nigeria/ South Africa/ France/ Germany co- production, will be screened by 1: 00pm on Monday, February 14 at Panorama’s main premiere cinema — Zoo Palast 1 Berlin. No U- Turn is one of the 29 films from 33 countries that have been confirmed for the documentary panorama programme of Berlinale 2022. Commissioned by ARTE, funded by WFC, Ile de France and CNC and coproduced by Elda Productions ( France), Passion8 Communications Limited ( Nigeria) and STEPS ( South Africa), it sees director Nnaebue on a cinematic journey from Lagos to Tangier, the continent- traversing route he first travelled as a teenager in hope of a better life. Along the way, he draws a multinational and multilingual portrait of African migration. Nnaebue’s No U- Turn, which has a Denmark- born Nigerian, Jide Akinleminu, as Director of Photography, is one of the three documentaries from Sub- Saharan Africa with a focus on Migration, Revolution and the Future. The other documentaries are No Simple Way Home by Akuol de Mabior from South Sudan, where the director confronts her own family history, which is closely linked to the history of the young East African state. Nous, Etudiants! ( We students!) by Rafiki Fariala poses questions about a better future, this time in the Central African Republic. Both countries are being represented with a film at the Berlinale for the first time. Nigeria was represented last year by the award winning film, Eyimofe, a Guardian Studios ( GDS) production. The 2022 Panorama offers a ride through contemporary cinema with works that denounce corrupt elite, dissect hardened and toxic family structures and leads to places of resistance and reconciliation. The films mediate between past and present and look at the interplay between the individual and society. The 2022 Berlinale runs from February 10 to 20.
Durban Filmmart Opens For Project Submission
THE Durban Filmmart Institute has opened its call for project submissions for the 2022 Durban Filmmart ( DFM). The 13th DFM is scheduled to hold from July 22 to 26, 2022. Currently in its 13th year, the yearly Durban Filmmart is a pan- African finance and co- production market. Designed to create partnerships and further the development and production of African cinema, the DFM was named in UNESCO’S 2021 Film Trends in Africa Report as ‘ the continent’s best film market’. Filmmakers are invited to submit for the three DFM programmes – DFM Finance and Pitch Forum ( DFM Official Projects), Content Shop, and Talents Durban.
Nigeria’s Kemi Lala Akindoju On Berlinale Talents 2022 List
ACTRESS, compere and theatre producer, Kemi Lala Akindoju, is on the list of the talents invited for the 2022 edition of the Berlinale Talents, a capacity building programme and an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival. The talent programme was introduced in 2003 and the multidisciplinary talent initiative has grown to nearly 10,000 alumni and has actively shaped the industry with this community of 13 film trades. Akindoju, star of critically acclaimed movies such as, Eyimofe, Ceoand Hotel Hibiscus , will be part of a new cohort of 200 Talents from over 70 countries, who will be joining the Berlinale Talent fold. The 200 Talents come from the various disciplines of film: acting, cinematography, directing, distribution, world sales, editing, film critics, production, production design, screenwriting, sound design, score composing and audience design. Forty of the participants will also be developing their screenplays, from arthouse cinema to virtual reality, in the four Talents Labs during this 20th edition of Berlinale Talents. Interestingly, many products of Berlinale Talents are already successfully part of the film industry like, German director Melanie Waelde, whose debut feature film, Naked Animals, premiered at the Berlinale, or cross- over artist, Paix Robinson, whose creations move between fashion, art, advertising and film. Actor Marissa Anita enjoys a career as a presenter in Indonesia while Hussina Raja, a multidisciplinary artist in film, photography, installations and performance, chiefly addresses matters of national identity and women’s rights. Berlinale Talents heads, Christine Tröstrum and Florian Weghorn, look ahead to the future: “It is above all the Talents and the work of many trailblazers that has kept Berlinale Talents going for 20 years: their hunger for the unseen, for other forms of creative communities, for a new art of collaboration is an inspiration to all. We therefore anticipate an anniversary edition that, from its home- base in Berlin, will produce much food- for- thought again: emerging filmmakers stick together and bravely look ahead to what is on the horizon - against all odds.”