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Joburg Film Festival Pays Tribute to ‘Art of Storytelling’ While Looking to Amplify African Voices, ‘Unearth New Talent’
The seventh edition of the Joburg Film Festival opens with Raoul Peck's 'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,' about the trailblazing apartheid photographer.
The Joburg Film Festival returns to the heart of South Africa’s entertainment industry from March 11 – 16, with a seventh edition that organizers say is designed to celebrate “the shared experiences and emotions that unite us through the art of storytelling.” The festival kicks off with the African premiere of “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” Raoul Peck ’s Cannes prize-winning documentary about the trailblazing South Africa photographer who fearlessly chronicled the evils of apartheid before moving to New York in the 1960s. Ndaba points to the importance of the Haitian director’s body of work, including his gripping biopic “Lumumba,” about the Congolese revolutionary icon, which he credits with “deepen[ing] my understanding of how it feels to face the world as a person of color, and the resilience that comes with it.”
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