Johannesburg, Dec. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) has selected the multi-award-winning MultiChoice film Barakat as South Africa’s official submission for ...

The film from Amy Jephta centers on a Muslim widow looking "to bring together her fractured family over Eid-al-Fitr to break the news about her new romance." By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The ...

36th Cairo International Film Festival Special celebrates Egyptian director Henri Barakat with exhibition and screening of his masterpiece The Sin on Friday, 14 November A hundred years have passed ...

Amy Jephta's tender-hearted film has few narrative surprises, but is illuminating as a rare feature devoted wholly to Cape Muslim society. South African cinema is still catching up to the diversity of ...

Well-known director Henri Barakat came to film through some effort; a graduate of Cairo’s law faculty, his family had intended him to be a lawyer. He instead travelled to France to study cinema.

Barakat was the biggest winner at Saturday night's 10th Silwerskerm Film Festival Awards, scooping six prizes including best screenplay, with Gaia making a second-place haul of five awards and the ...

From director Amy Jephta and producer Ephraim Gordon comes the new local movie, Barakat. The film stars veteran actress Vinette Ebrahim as matriarch Aisha Davids, a widow who has to preserve the peace ...

The first ever film in Afrikaaps - a dialect of Afrikaans, with words from other languages as well - is making waves in South Africa, trying to change the often one-dimensional, negative perception of ...

Johannesburg, Dec. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) has selected the multi-award-winning MultiChoice film Barakat as South Africa’s official submission for ...

Amy Jephta's tender-hearted film has few narrative surprises, but is illuminating as a rare feature devoted wholly to Cape Muslim society. South African cinema is still catching up to the diversity of ...