My Black Little Heart

  • My Black Little Heart
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2007
Format : Feature
Running time : 90 (in minutes)

Claire Angelique's directorial debut is produced by Lars von Trier's people, Zentropa, and shot by Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire) with a soundtrack by Chris Letcher. It presents Durban as beautiful and hellish. A young heroin addict, working as a dancer, porn actress and prostitute, finds the foetus of a Nigerian baby lying on the beach. This moment informs the horrifying progress of her story as drug lords take advice from their shaman and bloody voodoo practices involve her and her pregnant best friend. The subject matter could not be darker and the deeply personal narrative is as naked as one can get.

Country & Year: South Africa / Germany / Denmark 2007
Cast: Skyf Umlungu (Claire Angelique), Ingrid Bithiah Diener, Simon Erasmus, Graham Barnes

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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