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Cinema Muzeul Țăranului -
Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 18:00
Instituto Cervantes -
Sunday, November 10, 2019 - 18:30
Written by:
Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo
Cast:
Mucyo Rebecca, Mwizerwa Moses, Eric Onekey Ngagare, Cécric Mizero, Abdoul Mujyambere
Cinematography:
Samuel Ishimwe
Editing:
Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo
Producer:
Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo, Simone Soleil Späni, Rhea Plangg
Production:
Imitana Productions, Cocoon Productions
I GOT MY THINGS AND LEFT is a reflection on life, death and afterlife following the death of Eric, a young Rwandese with high value of people, life and relations. He is mourned by a group of friends who spend the night remembering him and his singular ways within a conformist society. The title is the opening line of Charles Dambudzo Marechera’s 'The House of Hunger', published in 1979 and looked upon 40 years later as a prophetic novel that predicted the troubles of modern-day Zimbabwe. Like Dambudzo Marechera, Eric died young. And same as the controversial writer, he left people wondering about his creative legacy and their own paths in life. (Adina Marin, BIEFF 2019)
Director:
PHILBERT AIMÉ MBABAZI SHARANGABO (b. 1990, Rwanda) won the SIGNIS award for best emerging filmmaker in East Africa at Zanzibar International Film Festival in 2012. He made 3 other short films that screened in international film festivals before attending Haute École d’Art et de Design in Geneva from where he graduated in 2017. I GOT MY THINGS AND LEFT is his latest short film and it premiered in Competition at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur where it got a Jury Special mention. He is currently writing his first feature film REPUBLIKA..
Contact:
phabrat7@gmail.com
Festivals, awards:
Special Mention - Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2018 / International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019 / Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2019 / IndieLisboa 2019 / Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg 2019
I GOT MY THINGS AND LEFT is a film of impressive freedom and power, both conceptually and emotionally. Inspired by the free spirit of Dambudzo Marechera - an iconoclast, boundary-crossing key figure of African literature - a mourning process becomes a trigger for self-reflection and transformation. Shifting elegantly between language registers - from poetry to performance, from music to personal diary, from reality to its cinematic interpretation - this profound meditation on loss and transience becomes a celebration of inner freedom, both on a human level and of cinema as a language. (International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - Jury Motivation for the Grand Prize)