| 5:30 p.m. | The Forgotten Man Osvalde Lewat-Hallade (Cameroon, 2003) |
One of the emerging voices of feminist African filmmaking, the Cameroonian director Osvalde Lewat-Hallade is well on her way to becoming her continent’s Kim Longinotto or Barbara Kopple, forging direct cinema with activist power. Like Longinotto’s Sisters in Law, The Forgotten Man casts an insightful eye on the vagaries of the Cameroon justice system, here presenting the true case of a man sentenced to four years in jail who, through judicial neglect and incompetence, remains incarcerated thirty-three years later.
—Jason Sanders
• (52 mins, In French with English subtitles, From Waza Images)
Followed by:
A Love During the War
Osvalde Lewat-Hallade (Cameroon/Congo, 2005)
A Love During the War tackles the subject of rape as a weapon of war in the Congo, following the committed journalist Aziza as she seeks out those affected. This direct, utterly unadorned film “is emboldened by its fierce desire to make known the horrors being committed against women in the Congo” (Ed Gonzalez, Village Voice).—Jason Sanders
• (63 mins, In French, Swahili, and Lingala with English subtitles)
• (Total running time: 115 mins, Color, Beta SP)
