A huge congratulations is due to Raphael Manuel and the crew of Filipiñana who at the weekend were awarded the Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) of the 70th Berlinale. The “tee-girls” fulfil their duties stoically, squatting in the dust as they sort golf balls. They...
Rattlesnakes premiered at the 27th Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, California on Friday Feb 8th and won the Audience award for Best Feature. Rattlesnakes is a neo-noir psychological thriller based on the acclaimed play written by Graham Farrow, directed by Julius Amedume (Precipice), produced...
Congratulations to long time collaborator John Akomfrah who has just won Apollo's Artist of the Year 2018 You can see two of his films in London right now - Vertigo Sea is showing in Strange Days: Memories of the Future at The Store X 180 The...
Gholam (2018) directed by Mitra Tabrizian is Mark Kermode’s film of the week for the Guardian newspaper. This haunting debut feature from photographer and film-maker Mitra Tabrizian is set amid London’s Iranian community during the Arab spring of 2011. Centring on a melancholy figure caught between his former...
Barbican Art Gallery presents a new commission by British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah for the Curve. His most ambitious project to date, Purple is an immersive, six-channel video installation which charts the incremental shifts in climate change across the planet and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and...
South African cinema made a bold entry to the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival last night with the World Premiere of Khalo Matabane’s THE NUMBER. Matabane presented the film to a capacity audience alongside lead actors Mothusi Magano, Presley Chweneyagae and Warren Masemola; producer, Carolyn Carew and executive...
The Party (2017) directed by Sally Potter premieres at Berlin Film Festival on February 12th 2017. THE PARTY – a comedy wrapped around a tragedy – unfolds in real time in a house in London in the present day. Janet is hosting an intimate gathering of friends...
Auto Da Fé wins Artes Mundi Prize 2017 John Akomfrah presents Auto Da Fé (2016), a two-screen film installation that debuted at Lisson Gallery London in January 2016. Auto Da Fé, which translates as ‘acts of faith’, looks at migration through the lens of religious persecution. Presented as a poetic period drama,the...
