Jemina, une petite fille d’immigrés africains de cinq ans, a pour ami Johnny, un petit garcon anglais. Ensemble, ils vont passer quelques moments merveilleux, malgré le racisme larvé ambiant.




Une coproduction Angleterre-Afrique du Sud

Titre VF : JEMINA ET JOHNNY
Titre VO : Jemina & johnny

Réalisateur : NGAKANE Lionel
Scénario : Lionel Ngakane
Chef Opérateur : PROBYN Brian
Musique : BRAMWELL B.

Acteurs
ROBINSON Nicolette
HATFIELD Patrick


Thèmes
Cinéma afrikaner
Courts métrages (Cinéma afrikaner)
Enfance (Cinéma britannique)
Racisme (Autres pays)

In 1958, Notting Hill in West London erupted in vicious race riots. In South Africa in 1963, Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress leader, was imprisoned for life. Ngakane, a fellow ANC member, was exiled from South Africa and came to Britain to be a film director. JEMIMA & JOHNNY, his first fiction film, portrays the developing friendship between a white English boy and the young daughter of recent immigrants from the Caribbean, against the backdrop of a Notting Hill simmering with racial conflict.



JEMIMA & JOHNNY

Dir: Lionel Ngakane
1966, 30 minutes, 35mm. (Source: Anthology Film Archives, April 2011)

2011 – Anthology Film Archives (New York) – April 2011
* This screening is part of: UNITED WE STAND: SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA DURING APARTHEID

Summary for official catalogs : A boy and a girl go hand in hand investigating their neighborhood. Their different skin colors play no role for them, but they do for the inhabitants of their area of London. A film ignited by the Race Riots of 1958.