The Prodigal Son
Friday, April 24th, 2009 | Education, Entertainment, Personal | No Comments
As the annual New York African Film Festival draws to a close, I realise I have not blogged about this nor congratulated a friend who’s film premiered at the festival this year.
The 16th annual film festival, was held 08 to 15 April 2009 and will continue again from 22 to 25 May 2009.
The 2009 New York African Film Festival, presented under the banner “Africa in Transition,” takes an introspective journey across the African continent with films that create a vision of Africa’s future through a deconstruction of its past.
It has been 15 years since South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections. In mid-April of this year, South Africa will go to the polls for the fourth time since the end of Apartheid.
With Nelson Mandela long retired, a new generation of leaders governs the country and grapples to maintain the grand ideals that drove the struggle against Apartheid. It is both the best of times, and the most challenging of times!
The films in this year’s New York African Film Festival speak to these challenges.
The Prodigal Son (U.S. Premiere)
Kurt Orderson, South Africa , 2008; 64m. In English and Caribbean Patois.
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Jan Vladimir Mostert
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