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https://newsreel.org/video/FATHERS
This series of 3 shorts is digitized from a VHS interlibrary-loan. The video & audio quality is quite poor, but it is a hard to get film from African filmmakers about Ethiopia (Woldeamlak, Amharik), Tanzania (Gilbert, Swahili), and Nigeria (Igwe, English)
Each of these three dramatic shorts from Tanzania, Nigeria and Ethiopia offers a critical look at the relationship between fathers and their children in contemporary Africa. Surrender shows the traditional face of paternal tyranny, a father controlling his son's life. In contrast, A Barber's Wisdom satirizes a modern father who compromises his children in his relentless pursuit of money. In The Father, the patriarch in question is ultimately the military dictatorship which terrorized Ethiopia in the '70s and '80s. The critique of fathers in these three films is reminiscent of the blistering indictment of patriarchy in post-independence Africa at the center of Ousmane Sembene's newest film, Faat Kine.
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