{"id":793,"date":"2020-11-12T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2020-11-17T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T11:28:16","slug":"awards-les-films-africains-en-preselection-pour-les-oscars-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/news\/awards-les-films-africains-en-preselection-pour-les-oscars-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards: African films shortlisted for the 2021 Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"tw-target-text-container\" class=\"tw-ta-container hide-focus-ring tw-nfl\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large XcVN5d tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-placeholder=\"Traduction\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em><strong><span lang=\"en\">The 2021 Oscar ceremony may see one or more films from Africa among the films nominated in the Best International Feature Film category. Currently, 4 films from the continent have applied and are waiting to be selected and counted among the nominees for the 93rd edition of the Oscars to be held on April 25, 2021.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tw-target-text-container\" class=\"tw-ta-container hide-focus-ring tw-nfl\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large XcVN5d tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-placeholder=\"Traduction\"><span lang=\"en\">The Oscars ceremony is certainly one of the most eargely awaited global film events each year. In 2021 the Oscars will hold their 93rd edition on April 25, two months after the date previously set and postponed due to the Covid 19 pandemic. For this edition, Africa will attempt to be represented in the category of best <em>international feature film<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large XcVN5d tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-placeholder=\"Traduction\"><span lang=\"en\">In this category, several African films hope to do better, for this edition, than the Nigerian film <strong>Lion Heart<\/strong> by <em>Genevieve Nnaji<\/em> which stopped just at the pre-selection phase for the Oscars 2020. To date, 4 films from the continent are shortlisted and hope to be nominated for this prestigious award.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4><strong>This Is Not A Burial, It&#8217;s A Resurrection<\/strong> by <em>Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese<\/em> &#8211; Lesotho<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0j6qdvFQQKQ\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"en\"><strong>This Is Not A Burial, It&#8217;s A Ressurection <\/strong>which has been shown at almost every major film festival in the world! The film was discovered at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and was subsequently selected for the Sundance Festival, the Rotterdam Festival and many others. The film&#8217;s Africa premiere took place in September 2020 during the <em>Durban International Film Festival.<\/em> The film directed by <em>Jeremiah Mosese<\/em> tells the story of Mantoa, an 80-year-old woman , who lives in a small village and who decides to lead a fierce protest against a government plan which aims to flood this village to build a barrage. A film to discover absolutely.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>The Letter<\/strong> by <em>Maia Lekow <\/em>&amp; <em>Chris King<\/em> &#8211; Kenya<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z011t2FAVpc\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"en\">With this film, Kenya will attempt to be nominated for an Oscar for the fifth time. <strong>The Letter<\/strong> is the first feature film by <em>Maia Lekow<\/em> and <em>Chris King<\/em>. A young man returns to his village in Kenya after his grandmother has received several death threats because she is accused of witchcraft. This is the plot of this film, which began its career in November 2019 during the <em>Amsterdam Documentary Festival<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>H\u00e9liopolis<\/strong> by <em>Dja\u00e2far Gacem<\/em> &#8211; Algeria<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BCkz2NKgP3Y\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>H\u00e9liopolis<\/strong> is the film selected by Algeria to represent the country at the Oscars. The director of the film <em>Dja\u00e2far Gacem<\/em> chooses for this first feature film to tackle a historical subject: the massacre of S\u00e9tif and Guelma in 1945. The film was unveiled in the Algerian press on 04 November last.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Night of The Kings<\/strong> by <em>Philippe Lac\u00f4te<\/em> &#8211; Ivory Cost<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/If6N3JhSym4\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"oSioSc\">\n<div id=\"tw-target\">\n<div id=\"kAz1tf\" class=\"g9WsWb\">\n<div id=\"tw-target-text-container\" class=\"tw-ta-container hide-focus-ring tw-nfl\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large XcVN5d tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-placeholder=\"Traduction\"><span lang=\"en\"><strong>Night of The Kings<\/strong> is the last film by Ivorian director <em>Philippe Lac\u00f4te<\/em>. The film is set in West Africa&#8217;s most overcrowded prison, La MACA. Aged and sick, Blackbeard is more and more contested. To maintain his power, he decides to set up a ritual that consists of forcing a prisoner to tell stories all night long. A young pickpocket is chosen among the prisoners. He can&#8217;t tell, but he is haunted by only one story, that of the gang leader Zama King &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Rostand Wandja<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2021 Oscar ceremony may see one or more films from Africa among the films nominated in the Best International Feature Film category. Currently, 4 films from the continent have applied and are waiting to be selected and counted among the nominees for the 93rd edition of the Oscars to be held on April 25, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,47,183,17,2],"tags":[197,112,199,83,198,196,141],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/This-is-not-a-burial-its-a-ressurection.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}