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Africa dreaming / executive producer, Jeremy Nathan.
LIBRA VHS PN1997 .A31156 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Library of African cinema.
- Library of African cinema
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- French
- Multiple languages
- Portuguese
- Wolof
- Subjects (All):
- Television programs--Africa.
- Television programs.
- Television plays--Namibia.
- Television plays.
- Television plays--Mozambique.
- Television plays--Senegal.
- Television plays--Tunisia.
- Television plays--Africa.
- Women--Namibia--Social conditions--Drama.
- Women.
- Women--Tunisia--Drama.
- Physicians--Senegal--Drama.
- Physicians.
- Machismo--Mozambique--Drama.
- Machismo.
- Machismo in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures, African.
- Social conditions.
- Africa--In motion pictures.
- Africa.
- Mozambique.
- Senegal.
- Tunisia.
- Namibia.
- Genre:
- Romance television programs.
- Motion pictures, African.
- Television programs.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (112 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Sophia's homecoming.
- Sabriya.
- Sabriyah.
- So be it.
- Gaze of the stars.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1997.
- Language Note:
- Sound track in various languages; subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Four television shorts produced in four different African countries to be shown on the African television series Africa Dreaming. In Sophia's Homecoming (Namibia) a woman who has worked as a domestic returns home to a terrible discovery: the ruptures caused by apartheid can never be repaired. In Sabriya (Tunisia) a modern woman disrupts the patterned mosaic of male Maghrebi society. So Be It (Senegal), based on a play by Wole Soyinka, follows the destruction of a well intentioned foreign doctor confronting fear, rage and powerlessness in a remote Senegalese village. The Gaze of the Stars (Mozambique) is a story about machismo in Mozambique, so powerful that it drives away whatever it loves.
- Contents:
- Sophia's homecoming / directed by Richard Pakleppa ; produced by Bridget Pickering (28 min.)
- Sabriya / written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako ; produced by Dora Bouchoucha Fourati (28 min.)
- So be it / written, directed and produced by Joseph Gai Ramaka (28 min)
- The gaze of the stars / directed by João Ribeiro ; produced by Pedro Pimenta (28 min.)
- Notes:
- "Four short films on love from Namibia, Mozambique, Senegal, Tunisia"--Container.
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license. Resource Sharing not permitted.
- Coretta Scott King Author Award, 1978.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 38208149
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