The Engagement Party in Harare
Realizador Agnieszka Piotrowska
Países United Kingdom, Poland
Duração 35 min
Sinopse
Harare International Arts Festival in Harare is an annual event conceived by Manuel Bangorro, with the support of his sister Maria Wilson, who is a co-engineer of it. The event is not uncontroversial because of the accusations of it being in some ways elitist. The festival in April 2011 was entitled The Engagement Party and this unusual and powerful documentary takes its title from that event. The film made by an award winning British filmmaker Agnieszka Piotrowska seeks to demolish some of the easy assumptions regarding the postcolonial identity in Zimbabwe. The delicate issue of race relations is presented through the work of the artists during the festival and the interviews gathered since. The film features the HIFA management as well as important Zimbabwean artists such as Raphael Chikukwa and Tsi Tsi Dangaremba. What is the heart of the matter of Harare’s Engagement party?
Harare International Arts Festival in Harare is an annual event conceived by Manuel Bangorro, with the support of his sister Maria Wilson, who is a co-engineer of it. The event is not uncontroversial because of the accusations of it being in some ways elitist. The festival in April 2011 was entitled The Engagement Party and this unusual and powerful documentary takes its title from that event. The film made by an award winning British filmmaker Agnieszka Piotrowska seeks to demolish some of the easy assumptions regarding the postcolonial identity in Zimbabwe. The delicate issue of race relations is presented through the work of the artists during the festival and the interviews gathered since. The film features the HIFA management as well as important Zimbabwean artists such as Raphael Chikukwa and Tsi Tsi Dangaremba. What is the heart of the matter of Harare’s Engagement party?