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| FILM
FESTIVAL 2007 |
Birds
Eye View Film Festival 8-14th March 2007 The internationally acclaimed 'Mother's Day' is an idiosyncratically offbeat, indelibly unique fusion of social satire, nursery rhyme, musical fantasy, and interpretive dance from celebrated Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga. Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Zimbabwe and the German Film and Television Academy, Dangarembga is established in Africa and beyond as an accomplished novelist, scriptwriter and documentary maker. Her tour de force debut novel 'Nervous Conditions' was translated in to twelve languages and hailed around the world as a seminal literary work. 'Mother's Day' is her first personal feature film production, and its release put Zimbabwe on the map as a new exciting centre of creative film production in Africa. The award-winning
piece was envisioned equally as a universal parable on man's innate
capacity for greed and human cruelty, and a tribute to the limitlessness
of the human imagination. It is a film unlike any other –
a musical re-telling of an ancient Shona folktale about a heroic
mother and her impoverished family driven to famine by a lazy, selfish
husband - at once joyous, poignant and absurd. A fascinating example
of African filmmaking from Zimbabwe’s first published black
woman.
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