The Tunnel will be screening at The Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles!
The two screenings, which will also feature great shorts from the Africa First Program, will be:
Sunday 19 February @ 5PM
Monday 20 February @ 3PM
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THE TUNNEL will soon be launched alongside three other spectacular African short films on AFRICA FIRST: VOLUME ONE. The films will be available for streaming, download and on DVD on the 26th APRIL 2011 on Amazon.com, distributed by Focus Features.
All made with the support of the inaugral Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program, the films showcase new visions from South Africa, Senegal and Kenya.
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The Tunnel @ Sharjah Biennale
The Tunnel will be screening in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates as part of the 10th Sharjah Biennale. The film program, entitled The Idea of Independence, was curated by Keith Shiri, founder and director of Africa in the Pictures and the London African Film Festival.
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African Screens
Click HERE to read Don Omope’s interview with Jenna on The Tunnel, published on African Screens.
Told through the rich imagination of a young girl seeking sense of her father’s sudden disappearance, Jenna creates a beautiful intense visual experience mimicking the rich senses of a child.
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Sembene’s Legacy
The Tunnel will be screening at the Toronto Film Festival’s Bell Lightbox as part of a homage program to legendary African cinema pioneer Ousmane Sembene.
As we look back at the work of Ousmane Sembène, two programmes of contemporary short films offers a glimpse of a bold new generation of African filmmakers. From science fiction to surrealism, from morality tales to outright fantasy, these films reflect the legacy and influence of Ousmane Sembène while pushing the boundaries and challenging the definitions of African cinema.
-Julie MacArthur (Programmer)
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The Tunnel @ InterFilm
The Tunnel returns to Berlin to screen at the InterFilm Short Film Festival 2010. This is the festival’s 26th edition and out of the 4,000 films selected, The Tunnel has been selected to screen in the Confrontation Program Against Violence and Intolerance.
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The Tunnel @ Encounters
The Tunnel will screen in the International Competition of the 16th Encounters International Short Film Festival in Bristol, UK in November.
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The Tunnel wins @ Afrykamera, Poland
The Tunnel has tied with Zimbabwean/USA short film, “Nora” for Best Short Film at Poland’s 5th Afrykamera Film Festival. The jury commented that the award was given for the way The Tunnel deals ”with historical issues with the use of magical realism, but without attempting to escape from them.”
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Reviewed at ZIFF
Review of The Tunnel’s screening at the Zanzibar International Film Festival 2010 by Oliver Laughland for Tanzania’s The Express.
It is the tender moments in this short that pull us through the journey and make Elizabeth’s story so powerful; she dances in the woods, plays with her talking wooden horse and imagines her father calling to her, deep in the depths of the tunnel. Whilst we sometimes struggle to distinguish imagination from reality, elaborations from terrible truths, the brutality of conflict is made more potent through the almost dream-like landscape that ensues. Held together by strong cinematography and understated use of CGI, this film is simply outstanding.
THE TUNNEL @ BFI
The Tunnel will screen as part of the World Cinema Program of the BFI London Film Festival in October.
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