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Rotterdam Industry Head Marten Rabarts Talks First Edition At Helm With Stories That Matter From Cheryl Dunye, Kamila Andani & Angela Wanjiku Wamai
Rotterdam Industry Head Marten Rabarts Promises Return To Roots Reboot and Projects With Stories That Matter
Examples of this, he says, are Enkop( The Soil) by Kenyan filmmaker Angela Wanjiku, a female-driven, neo-western set in Kenya’s volatile ranch land territory, and South African directors Babalwa Baartman and Jenna Cato Bass’s noir Eziko, about a young academic who journeys into the rural Eastern Cape in search of her long-lost sister. Alumni include the Philippines’ Bianca Balbuena, who is at the festival this year with closing film This City is a Battlefield; Erik Hemmendorff ( Triangle of Silence), Jonas Dornbach ( Maria), Bettina Brokemper ( Daughters) and Mia Bays who is currently director of the BFI Filmmaking Fund. This year’s 71 participants include the UK’s Hollie Bryan (The Ceremony), Saudi Arabia’s Jawaher Alamri (The Girls who Burned the Night), Germany’s Sandra Müller (4 Könige) as well as Zola Elgart Glassman (High Heat) and Eli Raskin ( Blue Sun Palace).
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