Mama Africa (12+)
Germany, South Africa, Finland, 2011, colour, 90 min.
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Producer: Don Edkins
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Producer: Don Edkins
Mama Africa is the biography of Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist, the voice and the hope of Africa.
AWARDS
Audience Award at the 62nd International Berlin Film Festival (Germany).
Mika Kaurismäki
Mika Kaurismäki
is a director, Screenwriter and Co-Producer, born in 1955 in Orimattila, Finland has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992 and has made several Brazilian-themed films, includingAmazon, Tigrero, Sambólico, Rytmi, and Moro no Brasil. His film Brasileirinho is a 2005 musical documentary about traditional Brazilian choro music. Mika Kaurismäki’s first film, The Liar (1980), was an overnight sensation, when first shown in Finland; it marked the beginning of the Kaurismäki brothers' film career and started a new era in Finnish cinema.
FILMOGRAPHY
“The Liar “,1981; “The Worthless”, 1982; “The Clan – Tale of the Frogs”, 1984; “Rosso”, 1985; “Helsinki Napoli – All Night Long”, 1987; “Night Work”, 1988; “Cha Cha Cha”, 1989; “Zombie and the Ghost Train”, 1991; “The last border”, 1993; “Condition Red”, 1995; “L.A. Without a Map”, 1998; “Highway Society”, 2000; ”Sound of Brazil”, 2002; “Brasileirinho”, 2005; “The House of Branching Love”, 2009; “Mama Africa”, 2011; “Brothers”, 2012.
Germany, South Africa, Finland, 2011, colour, 90 min.
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Producer: Don Edkins
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Producer: Don Edkins
Mama Africa is the biography of Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist, the voice and the hope of Africa.
AWARDS
Audience Award at the 62nd International Berlin Film Festival (Germany).