Editor's Note: It next screens at the Toronto Black Film Festival's 3rd edition, which kicked off today, and will run through February 15th. There’s a scene in Victor Viyuoh’s film "Ninah’s Dowry," where Ninah (Mbufung Seikeh) is beaten and then strung up to a ceiling by her severely abusive husband, Memfi (Anurin Nwunembom), who leaves her there as a form of punishment. This scene, and many others, reminded me of a scene in Steve McQueen’s "12 Years A Slave," where Solomon Northup is left hanging to a tree for an entire day, as he holds onto life. But the brutality in this film is not based on race, but rather gender. Like...
- 2/11/2015
- by Nijla Mumin
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: It makes it New York premiere at the 21st New York African Film Festival (Nyaff), which kicked off yesterday, May 7, and will run through May 13, with the theme “Revolution and Liberation in the Digital Age.” Here's our Paff review of the film... There’s a scene in Victor Viyuoh’s film Ninah’s Dowry, where Ninah (Mbufung Seikeh) is beaten and then strung up to a ceiling by her severely abusive husband, Memfi (Anurin Nwunembom), who leaves her there as a form of punishment. This scene, and many others, reminded me of a scene in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, where Solomon Northup is left hanging to a tree for an...
- 5/8/2014
- by Nijla Mumin
- ShadowAndAct
There’s a scene in Victor Viyuoh’s film Ninah’s Dowry, where Ninah (Mbufung Seikeh) is beaten and then strung up to a ceiling by her severely abusive husband, Memfi (Anurin Nwunembom), who leaves her there as a form of punishment. This scene, and many others, reminded me of a scene in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, where Solomon Northup is left hanging to a tree for an entire day, as he holds onto life. But the brutality in this film is not based on race, but rather gender. Like Northup, Ninah wills to survive this brutality and break free of a system of bondage; one that sees women as property in marriage. Set in a rural, present-day Cameroon, the film centers on Ninah, a...
- 2/16/2014
- by Nijla Mumin
- ShadowAndAct
A new year of film festivals has officially launched with the grand-daddy of them all (here in the USA anyway) the Sundance Film Festival, just around the corner. In February, however, all eyes will be on the Pan African Film Festival that takes place in Los Angeles, CA, which runs from February 6-17, 2014, celebrating its 22nd anniversary. Continuing on with highlights from this year's event... from the narrative section, is Cameroonian filmmaker Victor Viyuoh's drama titled Ninah’s Dowry - his feature film debut. The film tells the story of Ninah, a wife who flees her abusive husband, but when he discovers that she is pregnant, he...
- 1/15/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
From Cameroonian filmmaker Victor Viyuoh comes a drama titled Ninah’s Dowry, his feature film debut. The film tells the story of Ninah, a wife who flees her abusive husband. When Ninah’s husband discovers that she is pregnant, he goes after her, determined either to recover his dowry payment or to bring her home. The filmmaker says that the film is inspired by the true story of his cousin, who was an excellent student forced to abandon her studies to marry a physically abusive man. After bearing three children, his cousin found the abuse unbearable and ran away. Her husband pursued her, demanding that she return his dowry money. When she was unable to pay him the money, her husband...
- 3/1/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Indian director Ashim Ahluwalia's feature film project "Miss Lovely" has been selected for production funding during winter granting cycle of the Global Film Initiative.
Ahluwalia's project is one of the five projects selected from 68 applicants from 34 countries.
The grant is meant to be utilized for post production such as laboratory, sound mixing and advanced post production requirements. Projects are selected on the basis of their artistic merit.
Here is the complete list of selected projects:
Miss Lovely (India) by Ashim Ahluwalia
Ninah’s Dowry (Cameroon) by Victor Viyuoh
Red Princesses (Princesas Rojas) (Costa Rica) by Laura Astorga Carrera
Shadows And Faces (Golgeler Ve Suretler), (Turkey) by Dervis Zaim
Tramp (Trampas) (Mexico) by Eduardo Villanueva Jimenez.
Ahluwalia's project is one of the five projects selected from 68 applicants from 34 countries.
The grant is meant to be utilized for post production such as laboratory, sound mixing and advanced post production requirements. Projects are selected on the basis of their artistic merit.
Here is the complete list of selected projects:
Miss Lovely (India) by Ashim Ahluwalia
Ninah’s Dowry (Cameroon) by Victor Viyuoh
Red Princesses (Princesas Rojas) (Costa Rica) by Laura Astorga Carrera
Shadows And Faces (Golgeler Ve Suretler), (Turkey) by Dervis Zaim
Tramp (Trampas) (Mexico) by Eduardo Villanueva Jimenez.
- 4/1/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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