The festival’s closing night film is 1972’s “Black Girl” (Nov. 16). Directed by Ossie Davis, it was also recently restored, ...
African cinema is entering a period of tremendous creative expansion. We are seeing bold experimentation in form, genre, and distribution, with filmmakers blending realism, mythology, and futurism in ...
FILE - Director Gavin Hood, left, and actor Presley Chweneyagae from the best foreign language film "Tsotsi" from South Africa, arrive for the 78th Academy Awards on March 5, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP ...
Toward the end of her recently republished autobiography, "My Country, Africa," the political organizer Andrée Blouin reflects on the failures of the independence movements that galvanized so many ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film “Tsotsi”, which won South Africa’s first ever Academy Award ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film "Tsotsi", which won South Africa’s first ever Academy Award ...