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                             7th  Film Festival

4 - 11 October 2006

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Son of Man (Jezil) by Mark Donrford-May (South Africa)

 

Country:

South Africa

Year:

2005

 

86 mins / Sony HD Cam / Colour / Xhosa - English subtitles

Director:

Mark Dornford-May

Screenplay:

Mark Dornford-May / Andiswa Kedama / Pauline Malefane

Director of photography:

Giulio Biccari

Sound:

Barry Donnelly

Editor:

Anne Sopel / Ronelle Loots

Producers:

Mark Dornford-May / Camilla Driver / Brigid Olen

Cast:

Andile Kosi / Pauline Malefane / Andries Mbali / Jim Ngxabaze / Sibulele Mjali / Mvuyisi Mjali

The story of Jesus reclaimed as an African fable: a simple concept becomes a remarkable cinematic experience in Son of Man.

Mary conceives the Christ child during a militia attack on a grade school, Jesus asks for the surrender of handguns from his apostles, and the angel Gabriel is a precocious child marked with simple white feathers. Equally intriguing is the melding of the crucifixion and resurrection-alluding to the fact that in today’s Africa political dissidents, as Jesus was, are conveniently made to disappear.

Son of Man

 

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