The 12th edition of the annual festival of black independent film continues from Friday, August 13, through Thursday, August 26, at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson, and at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased only on the day of the screening. For more information call 649-4855.
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Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s comedy-fantasy charmer from Cameroon follows a young girl who betrays too much curiosity for her age and is transformed by a witch into a man. He/she promptly joins a male gang and starts romancing the daughter of a neighborhood cop, i.e. herself. The plot carries a few echoes of George Axelrod’s play Goodbye Charlie, but what’s most notable about this first feature is how much it owes in stylistic eclecticism to the films of Spike Lee–though its folkloric content and sexual politics are quite different. Bekolo’s overall handling of his cast–which includes Sandrine Ola’a, Serge Amougou, Jimmy Biyong, and Essindi Mindja–is delightful (1992). (Facets Multimedia, 7:00 and 9:00)
The third feature of Euzhan Palcy (Sugar Cane Alley, A Dry White Season), shot in France, shows Paris through the eyes of a West Indian child and features Caribbean music; with Jean-Claude Duverger, Jocelyne Beroard, and Maka Kotto (1992). Palcy will be present at the screening. (Film Center, 8:30)
A documentary by Raoul Peck exploring the life of the late prime minister of the Congo (now Zaire); a German-Swiss production. Peck will be present at the screening. (Film Center, 6:00)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15
Toubab Bi
