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U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
Tuesday, July 25 at 9:30 pm
South Africa–120 minutes–Sung
and spoken in Xhosa, subtitled.
Directed by Mark Dornford-May.
Music
Director and Conductor: Charles Hazlewood
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Based on Bizet’s opera Carmen, the film is set
and filmed in the township of Khayelitsha in
Cape Town, South Africa and is a story of seduction,
love, jealousy and betrayal. U-Carmen
eKhayelitsha had its South African premiere in
Khayelitsha in March 2005 in the very same building in which the
last scene of the film is shot. The opera company, Dimpho Di
Kopane, started by Mark Dornford-May and Charles Hazlewood,
consists of forty South Africans whose stage production of Carmen
had phenomenal success and inspired the movie script. Written by
Mark Dornford-May, Andiswa Kedama, Pauline Malefane. Produced
by Mark Dornford-May, Ross Garland, Camilla Driver. Cinematographer: Giulio Biccari. A Fortissimo Film.
Accompanying Short:
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M. de Fontgibu
and the Plum Pudding
U.S. Premiere–The Netherlands–11 minutes
In Dutch with subtitles. Directed by Prosper de Roos. Every time Emile eats plum pudding he encounters
a certain M. de Fontgibu. Based on the true story of French writer Emille Deschamps.
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