Cinidb.Africa - English

Katarina Hedrén talks to Sudanese producer, director and screenwriter  Amjad Abu-Alala about keeping a film industry alive in times of great upheaval, about collaboration and knowing when compromise is possible and when it’s not.

In this episode Jyoti and Katarina Hedrén continue a conversation about identity, belonging and creative expression that has been going on for years. Jyoti talks about the importance of ‘play’ as a strategy, about freedom and why she makes no distinction between her roles as a filmmaker and an educator.

Renowned South African filmmaker Jyoti Mistry - Professor of Film at HDK-Valand at Gothenburg University, Sweden - works in film as a mode of research and artistic practice. Her most recent work is a trilogy exploring race, gender and sexuality through archival sources: When I grow up I want to bea black man, Cause of Death and the forthcoming Loving in between.

Namibian-British filmmaker and researcher Perivi Katjavivi talks to Katarina Hedrén about the search for language, haunted sites and how it is possible and necessary to be comfortable in tension.

In this episode Katarina Hedrén talks to Kenyan-German filmmaker/poet/still-photographer/spiritual practitioner Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann about her multi-disciplinary healing practice.

Born in Bonn, Germany and raised beneath the tall, tall trees of Nairobi, Kenya, Philippa makes healing films to inspire and transform audiences globally. A graduate of AFDA, Cape Town, she is a multi-disciplinary; straddling fiction, documentary and artist films. With a background in poetic, intimate narratives about women, childhood, memory, intergenerational trauma and the natural world, she is best known for Seeds, winner of The Ecumenical Jury Prize at Internationale Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2017 and feature-length documentary, New Moon, winner of Best Documentary at Academy Qualifying, Durban International Film Festival 2018. An alumna of Berlinale Talents 2016, IDFA Summer School 2013 (Amsterdam), Produire au Sud 2011 (Nantes) and fellow of RAW Académie 2016 (Dakar), she is currently based between Brussels and London.

In this conversation prolific film critic and curator Wilfred Okiche talks to Katarina Hedrén about the importance of context in film criticism and of his aim to amplify the reach of African films.

Nigerian writer Wilfred Okiche is an influential critic of African and black film. He is a member of FIPRESCI and a @RottenTomatoes-certified critic, who has attended critic programs and reported from film festivals in Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Durban and Lagos. His writing appears on numerous platforms, among them Variety, Indiwire, The Africa Report, The Continent, MUBI and OkayAfrica.

In this rich conversation, Rwanda-born actress, playwright and director, Anisia Uzeyman, talks to Katarina Hedrén about art as legacy and proof of life, and about the definition and meaning of ethical collaboration.