African Eyes on Europe (3 Parts)

Alternative title: Lettres Africaines (3 Parts)
Synopsis: Three films each directed by an African film-maker in a country in Europe. Each is a letter to a close friend or relative telling them a personal story about their images and impressions of Europe.
Language: English
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 25 min.
Year of production: 1995
Availability: Sale; 1996 sale: £95.00 (+VAT +p&p) each
Subjects: Anthropology
Keywords: Africa; cultural influences; Ghana; Kenya; Poland; Zaire

Title: Candlelit landscape
Synopsis: 1 (director Jakub Barua): Jakub Barua, a film-maker of Kenyan and Polish origins, while observing the Polish Easter and recounting memories of the Polish side of his family, answers in a video letter the question posed by his cousin in Kenya: should he st
Title: Rosemary’s baby
Synopsis: 2 (director Rosemary Dei-Boateng): Ghanaian film-maker Rosemary Dei-Boateng writes to to her aunt in Ghana, in which she examines the choices available to an English mother compared with her own experiences of childbirth in an East London hospital and the
Title: Letter to Makura
Synopsis: 3 (director Mweze Ngangura): Shot in Marollians market in a poor sector of Brussels by the Zairean film-maker Mweze Ngangura and addressed to his friend, a tribal chief back home in Zaire, Ngangura likens the life, local colour and eccentric characters in

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