C’est l’adaptation d’un conte populaire zimbabwéen sous la forme d’une comédie musicale parfois grinçante. Un mari oisif et égoïste entraîne la mort de sa femme qui fera tout pour se venger.

KARE KARE SVAKO (Mother’s day / La Fête des mères) – réalisé par / directed by Tsitsi DANGAREMBGA – Zimbabwe – 2004 – 30 minutes – color – 35 mm & video – Dolby SR – Fiction – Musical drama –

Réalisation/Director :
Tsitsi DANGAREMBGA –

Scénario/Script :
Tsitsi DANGAREMBGA –

Photo/Cinematography :
Pierre MENNEL –

Montage/Editing :
Olaf KOSCHKE –

Son/Sound :
Themba NYAMWEDA –

Musique/Music :
Kelly RUSIKE –

Durée/Lenght :
30 minutes –

Format/Format :
shot on 16:9 digital video and available as a 35 mm Dolby SR movie –

Chorégraphie :
Clayton NDLOVU–

Couleur/Color :
C –

Version originale / original version :
Shona sous-titré en anglais / Shona with english subtitles–

Interprétation/Casting
Consolato NGWENYA –
Nicholas MAZENDA –
…–

Production/ Production –

Olaf KOSCHKE
Nyerai Films
9 Windermere Close Helensvale
HARARE – Zimbabwe
tél./fax +263 4 862355
[email protected]
Web: www.nyeraifilms.com

Jackie CAHI
Pangolin Films
Tel: +263 4 487 60
MAIL: [email protected]
HARARE – Zimbabwe

Funded by the European Union support for ACP-cinema

Distribution / Distribution –
Olaf Koschke
Nyerai Films
9 Windermere Close
Helensvale HARARE – Zimbabwe
tél./fax +263 4 862355
[email protected]
Web: www.nyeraifilms.com

Palmarès / Festivals / Nominations / Prix / Awards –

26th Durban International Film Festival : 15-26 June 2005 (DURBAN, Afrique du Sud)

4th Cambridge African Film Festival 2005. Grande Bretagne (04-14 Mai 2005, CAMBRIDGE ; 23-29 Mai 2005, LONDON ; 02-06 Juin 2005, CAMBRIDGE)

2nd Amakula Kampala International Film Festival. Septembre 2005 (KAMPALA, Ouganda)
Special commendation (mention spéciale)

8th Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), Festival of the Dhow Countries. (July 1-10, 2005), (ZANZIBAR, Tanzania)
Golden Dhow (Short Film Award / Prix du Meilleur Court métrage)

FIFF 2006 (Suisse)

Sundance Film Festival 2005 (USA)

Drought has struck. Father pushes his wife away from the family dinner of termites. In anger, when mother challenges him, he digs a pit with a brutal purpose, but little does he suspect that Mother can retaliate just as powerfully. Based on an old Shona folk tale and rendered as a musical celebrating a diversity of contemporary Zimbabwean music, Mother’s Day is the newest and most exciting motion picture development to come out of Zimbabwe.

With the wonderful voice of Prudence Katomeni.

Kare Kare Zvako – Mother’s Day won the Short Film Award at it’s premiere at the Zimbabwe International Film Festival 2004.

Selected at the Sundance Film Festival 2005.

produced by Pangolin Films & Nyerai Films, 2004

directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga
drama, 30 min, 35 mm, Dolby SR
Shona with Subtitles in English & French