Press Release
Festival 2000 Awards Winner
ZIFF AWARDS
GOLDEN DHOW – Lifetime Achievement in Music
Bakari Abeid Ali
GOLDEN DHOW – Lifetime Achievement in Music
Idi Abdulla Farhan
GOLDEN DHOW – Lifetime Achievement in Music,
Art and Teaching
Seif Salim Saleh [1942 - 2000]
Peoples’ Choice – Most Popular Film in
the Festival
Jointly awarded :
NEEMA [Tanzania] Directed by Geoffrey Mhagama
YELLOW CARD [Zimbabwe] Directed by John Ribber
Chairperson’s Award – The film which most
powerfully addresses current issues pertinent to the future of African society
Jointly awarded :
LOST INNOCENCE [Uganda/Sierra Leone] Directed by Patrick
Vergeynst
WHY DID THEY KILL OUR NEIGHBOURS [Japan] Directed by Kumiko
Igarashi
JURY AWARDS
The jury is pleased to make the following citations:
For a sensitive performance by the following:
- SORIA MOUFAKKIR as "Hanifa" in
Aid El Kabir (France)
Directed by Karin Albou
- SABINE DRIDI as "Amina" in Avril
(Tunisia/France)
Directed by Raja Amari
- NDEYE TOUTY SAMB for the leading role in
Premiere Nuit
Sur le Trottoir (First Night on the Street) [Senegal)
Directed by Pape Seck
For capturing the spirit of cinema:
Bye Bye Africa [Chad/France]
directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Kumar Talkies [India] directed by
Pankaj Rishi Kumar
For presenting a timely expose of a current issue
affecting the Eastern and Southern regions of Africa:
White Farmers, Black Land [France/South
Africa) directed by Aldo Lee.
Documentary Video Category:
SILVER DHOW AWARD (Runner-up)
For its fascinating story of women engaged in a
survival struggle to enrich their lives and to preserve their rich historical
surroundings:
Stone Town: Old Houses and Strong Women in Zanzibar [Tanzania]
Directed by Lars Johansson & Farida Nyamachumbe
GOLDEN DHOW AWARD (Best
Documentary Video of the Festival)
For the skillful visual articulation of the rich
tapestry that is the lives of different communities of people defined by their livelihoods
and their common bond with the river:
L’Espirit De Mopti [Spirit of the Mopti] [Mali/France]
directed by Moussa Ouane
Documentary Films Category:
SILVER DHOW AWARD (Runner-up)
For its capturing of the dramatic reality of the
daily struggle for basic human rights and its in depth analysis of their interdependence
in African society:
Chef (Chief) [Cameroon] directed by Jean-Marie
Teno
GOLDEN DHOW AWARD (Best
Documentary Film of the Festival]
Jointly awarded:
For its powerful and, respectful portrait of
children caught in a vicious circle of deprivation. It sets out unequivocally that this
aspect of South Africa’s priorities is urgent, for a country distracted by the
mammouth task of rebuilding itself:
Hillbrow Kids [South Africa] directed by Michael Hammon &
Jacqueline Gorgen
For its sensitive observation that provides an
insight into the personal and social history, creativity, humour, and subversive
resilience of woman who has turned her artistic talents into a tool for survival:
Mokrammeh: Memories and Dreams [Iran/France] directed by Ebrahim
Mokhtari -
Short Films Category ( Less than 60
minutes):
SILVER DHOW AWARD (Runner-up)
For its subtle revelation, with dramatic intensity,
of the complex moral and religious dilemmas that are part of family life in an Algeria
today:
Aid El Kabir [France/Algeria] directed by Karin Albou
GOLDEN DHOW AWARD
(Best Short film of the Festival]
An incisive and stylish film which presents a biting
allegory of the dilemma of a country trying to move toward reconciliation. One of the new
directors who signals the wealth of creative talent being nurtured in South Africa:
Portrait Of a Young Man Drowning [South Africa] directed by Teboho
Mahlatsi
Feature Films Category:
SILVER DHOW AWARD (Runner-up)
An admirable debut feature by the director and a
first feature that heralds an encouraging future for film in Chad. This film presents the
real-life drama of challenges facing African cinema today:
Bye Bye Africa [Chad/France] directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
GOLDEN DHOW AWARD (Best
feature film of the Festival]
for the depth of insight it provides, with flare and
imagination, to the partition of a nation, the ramifications of which are still
experienced today. The jury noted its creative approach to the subject and its attention
to historical and cinematic detail:
Jinnah [Pakistan] directed by Jamil Dehlavi
FESTIVAL JURY
Florence Ayisi (Cameroon/UK) Senior Lecturer in Film and
Video Studies. University of Wales College, Newport.
Mariet Bakker (Holland) Founder/Director of Africa in
The Picture
June Givanni (Guyana/UK) Programmer, Planet Africa Toronto
International Film Festival
Godwin Z. Kaduma (Tanzania) Playwright, Director &
Choreographer. Executive Secretary Eastern African Theatre Institute.
Sara Hlupekile Longwe (Zambia) Development Consultant,
Feminist, Chairperson of African Women’s Development and Communications Network
Queenae Mulvihill (USA) Film Producer, Director and Writer.
Beatrix Mugishagwe (Tanzania) Director/Producer, Abantu
Vision
Farouk Topan (Zanzibar/UK) Senior Lecturer in Swahili,
School of Oriental and African Studies – SOAS – University of London;
playwright.