{"id":86995,"date":"2017-02-09T12:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/south-africas-presence-at-berlinale-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-02-09T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T10:23:16","slug":"south-africas-presence-at-berlinale-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africas-presence-at-berlinale-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Presence at Berlinale 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/south-africas-presence-at-berlinale-2017?lang=en\">South Africa&#8217;s Presence at Berlinale 2017<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>The Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale is about to start on 9 February, so here is an update on South Africa&#39;s presence at this important film industry showcase. Although South Africa&#39;s presence at this year&#39;s Berlinale might not reach the level of the previous years in terms of quantity as there will not be a South African stand at this year&#39;s European Film Market, the quality of the representation and presented products remains unchanged: A big success is that the&nbsp;European-South African co-production &#8220;The Wound&#8221;, a film that tackles the fabrication of masculinity, has been given the honour of opening the Panorama programme. Also screening in the Panorama section is&nbsp;Akin Omotoso&#39;s latest film &#8220;Vaya&#8221;, a gripping portrait of small-town characters immersed in the intimidating, alluring, and dangerous world of big-city Johannesburg and Soweto.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As every year, a great number of South African filmmakers, producers and distributors will be attending the festival, as well as representatives of the&nbsp;<strong>Department of Trade and Industry (dti)<\/strong>, the&nbsp;<strong>National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF)<\/strong>&nbsp;as well as the different provincial film commissions.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#39;s focus on the &ldquo;Black Worlds&rdquo; and Europe will also feature premieres of such films like the much anticipated&nbsp;&#8220;I am not your negro&#8221; by Raoul Peck&nbsp;on the late James Baldwin, while&nbsp;Alain Gomis&#39; &#8220;F&eacute;licit&eacute;&#8221;&nbsp;will be the only African film in official competition.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO on behalf of South African Embassy to the Federal Republic of Germany.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/9d34a97bf8d64fb\/200\/70\" alt=\"South African Embassy to the Federal Republic of Germany\"\/><br \/>Download logo<\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/south-africas-presence-at-berlinale-2017?lang=en\">APO &#8211; Africa-Newsroom: latest news releases related to Africa<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Presence at Berlinale 2017: The Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale is about to start on 9 February, so here is an update on South Africa&#39;s presence at this important film industry showcase. Although South Africa&#39;s presence at this year&#39;s Berlinale might not reach the level of the previous years in terms of quantity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[10553,4635,11754,7776,3576],"class_list":{"0":"post-86995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-10553","8":"tag-africas","9":"tag-berlinale","10":"tag-presence","11":"tag-south","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}