On Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 18h30<\/b>, AfricAvenir and the FNCC present the film premiere, Imam and I \u2013 A film by Khalid Shamis <\/b>(South Africa, 2011, 80 min). \u201cImam and I\u201d is the debut feature length documentary by independent South African filmmaker Khalid Shamis. \u201cImam and I\u201d is a fascinating and detailed personal journey through the life, death and legacy of little known anti-apartheid struggle hero Imam Abdullah Haron<\/b>. The film is an intricate blend of archive, animation and live action interwoven with recollections and stories of those closest to the Imam.nKhalid, the filmmaker who is also the Imam\u2019s grandson, paints a portrait of the Imam as a family figure through all the myth that surrounded his death and legacy.nImam Abdullah Haron was one of the only voices from the Muslim community of Cape Town to stand up against the injustices of Apartheid during the 50s and 60s. For this he was incarcerated and killed in detention in Cape Town on September the 27th, 1969.nThe filmmaker explores questions of identity, memory, betrayal and sacrifice as well as the role of the Islamic community of the Cape during apartheid\u2019s \u2018dark days\u2019.nImam and I intimately reveals the traumatic effects the Imam\u2019s family suffered after his demise. It is a brave attempt of the filmmaker to understand himself, whilst laying testament to a past that, for a long while, had remained forgotten.nImam and I was voted best film overall and won the Audience Choice Award at the 2011 Encounters film festival in South Africa.n\u201cThe film casts a magical spell on you by pulling you deeper and deeper into the world of the Imam and his family, into the inside of a unique closely knit black community which very little has been written about never mind filmed, a remarkable feat which bears testimony to the determination of the filmmaker, whom has spent the last six years on this project.\u201d Rehad Desai \u2013 filmmakernDate:<\/b> Wednesday, 07. November 2012
Time:<\/b> 18h30
Entrance:<\/b> 10,- N$
Venue:<\/b> FNCCn\u00a9 Copyright AfricAvenir 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 18h30, AfricAvenir and the FNCC present the film premiere, Imam and I \u2013 A film by Khalid Shamis (South Africa, 2011, 80 min). \u201cImam and I\u201d is the debut feature length documentary by independent South African filmmaker Khalid Shamis. \u201cImam and I\u201d is a fascinating and detailed personal journey through the life,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afrikanische-perspektiven","category-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n