Recently checking in the comments section on films in The Guardian (as you do!) I saw someone mention a Borderlines Film Festival. With the credits from Threshold (2020-also reviewed) marking my final viewing at the Grimm Film Festival, I decided to check this new festival that I've never heard of before!
Finding Charlatan (2020-also reviewed) to be a interesting, stylish Costume Drama,I took a look at what other titles were at the festival,and found a section dedicated to the cinema of Africa, leading to me discovering who will die at 20.
View on the film:
Introducing the screening/stream for the first film to be submitted to the Oscar's by Sudan by revealing that due to events such as the Second Sudanese Civil War, that the country has no infrastructure at all for film making, co-writer/(with Yousef Ibrahim) director Amjad Abu Alala makes a magnificent, thoughtful feature film directing debut.
From the declaration at the opening that Muzamil will die on his 20th birthday, the screenplay by Ibrahim and Alala explores the corrupting influence of superstition held by the masses in the town, holding a religious-like blind belief in the claim that Muzamil will soon die,which must not be questioned.
Born with his mum believing she now knows when he will die, the writers following Muzamil growing from a baby into a 19 year old with a marvelous, hard-edge coming of age drama, where Muzamil has to fight out of the oppressive shadow of death that the locals consistently remind him,as he nears his 20th birthday/death day.
Overcoming the obstacles of making a movie in Sudan, director Alala & cinematographer Sebastien Goepfert follow Muzamil with a rich earthy atmosphere of stylish tracking shots going down the side streets covered in dusty yellows and blues, as Muzamil breaks away from those with blind faith,when he turns 20.
Finding Charlatan (2020-also reviewed) to be a interesting, stylish Costume Drama,I took a look at what other titles were at the festival,and found a section dedicated to the cinema of Africa, leading to me discovering who will die at 20.
View on the film:
Introducing the screening/stream for the first film to be submitted to the Oscar's by Sudan by revealing that due to events such as the Second Sudanese Civil War, that the country has no infrastructure at all for film making, co-writer/(with Yousef Ibrahim) director Amjad Abu Alala makes a magnificent, thoughtful feature film directing debut.
From the declaration at the opening that Muzamil will die on his 20th birthday, the screenplay by Ibrahim and Alala explores the corrupting influence of superstition held by the masses in the town, holding a religious-like blind belief in the claim that Muzamil will soon die,which must not be questioned.
Born with his mum believing she now knows when he will die, the writers following Muzamil growing from a baby into a 19 year old with a marvelous, hard-edge coming of age drama, where Muzamil has to fight out of the oppressive shadow of death that the locals consistently remind him,as he nears his 20th birthday/death day.
Overcoming the obstacles of making a movie in Sudan, director Alala & cinematographer Sebastien Goepfert follow Muzamil with a rich earthy atmosphere of stylish tracking shots going down the side streets covered in dusty yellows and blues, as Muzamil breaks away from those with blind faith,when he turns 20.