Director: Multiple Dirs
1975 / 69min / DCP
“I am thrilled to have the Tahar Cheriaa series complemented by a special screening of five short films that could not be left out of this tribute for my friend Tahar Cheriaa; just like the features in the program, they are indispensable treasures of African cinematic memory.” —Mohamed Challouf, director of Tahar Cheriaa: Under the Shadow of the Baobab, and film curator
A program of shorts particularly cherished by Cheriaa through the years. Featuring Lionel Ngakane’s Jemima & Johnny, winner of the Silver Tanit at the 1970 Carthage Film Festival, about the friendship of a Jamaican girl and a white boy in a Notting Hill, London, riven with racial tension; Golden Tanit–winner Idrissa Ouedraogo’s The Bowls, documenting the painstaking craftsmanship of the titular wooden vessels in a Mossi village in Burkina Faso; Moustapha Alassane’s Bon Voyage, Sim, an animated political satire about the President of a Republic of Toads and his downfall; and two films from pioneering Egyptian documentarian Attiyat Al-Abnudi: Mud Horse, in which Al-Abnudi turns her camera on her country’s poor; and The Sandwich, which observes the secret lives of children in a rural village on the Nile Delta routinely passed through by trains carrying sightseeing tourists.
Jemima & Johnny (Lionel Ngakane, 1966, 29 mins)
The Bowls (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1983, 11 mins)
Bon Voyage, Sim (Moustapha Alassane, 1966, 5 mins)
Mud Horse (Husaan Al Teen) (Attiyat Al-Abnudi, 1971, 12 mins)
Sandwich (Attiyat Al-Abnudi, 1975, 12 mins)
Q&A with filmmaker and curator Mohamed Challouf on Saturday, April 18th