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The story: Somewhere in Africa, February 27, 2058 Nijimbere Kamikazi testify in an interview about the escalation of violence which had a determinant influence over their relationship and their communities. 2017, The Banyamazi and the Bagabuzi live in peace, when as result on the global shortage of drinking water, difficult living conditions and decontamination of sources are getting more complicated. The conflicts between the two communities of the young secret couple oppress them. The spiral of violence inevitably separates Kamikazi and Nijimbere , their families and groups.
i MASHŌKA
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About the Director:
JEAN MARIE NDIHOKUBWAYO i Mashoka. Like most film creators in the region he has to be multitalent: He is producer, editor and an excelent Cameraman. But for i MASHŌKA, they both concentrate on directing and the result pay them back.
Jean Marie Ndihokubwayo is known fore his previous shorts: "Le Rencard" , but particularly "Taxi Love" which won an Award 2010 in Fespaco.
PASCAL CAPITOLIN (1967)
is the co-author of i MASHŌKA. He is a French Filmaker and Sound Engineer who has worked for 4 years in Burundi and made 2 documentaries in the country. His last documentary "Rwagasore" , shooted in Burundi an d over Prince Louis Rwagasore, won the silver medail in Monte Carlo at the 33rd International URTI Grand Prix for Author's Documentary.
Pascal Capitolin is also known for his work as an international Sound Engineer, like on "KINSHASA SYMPHONY" , a documentary which won several awards worldwide.
Pascal Capitolin’s comprehensive filmography as sound designer includes i.a. 2012 : The Look in Cannes 2011- a Documentary by Angelina Maccarone , Film portrait on Chalotte Rampling
2010 : Day of the Sparrow- Nomination for German Film Award Documentary by Philip Scheffner.
Paragraph 175 – The Pink Triangle (2000, director: Rop Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman; Best Documentary, Sundance Filmfestival; FIPRESCI-Prize, Berlinale),
Vom Schaukeln der Dinge (2005, director; Beatrix Schwehm),
Das Reichsorchester (2007, director: Enrique Sánchez Lansch)
Here's Looking at You, Boy (2007, director: André Schäfer). or Rhythm is it ! (2004).
For complete Filmographie and releases, please visit his Web Site: www.pascalcapitolin.com
Film director:
Pascal Capitolin & Jean Marie Ndihokubwayo
Producer:
La Benevolencija / Netty Communication
About the Producer:
<p>Although <strong>La Benevolencija</strong> is not a proper Production company but an NGO, the producer are media professionals. For <strong>i Mashoka </strong>they made of Netty Communication headed by JM Ndihokubwayo their co-producer.</p>
<p><span>Established in 2002, <strong>Radio La Benevolencija Humanitarian Tools Foundation</strong> (RLB) is a Dutch NGO committed to the empowerment of minorities and social groups that are, have been or are in danger of becoming, the victims of ethnocentric or other forms of hate violence. It promotes an agenda of sanity, empathy and mutual help among those who are the target of hate speech, as well as among societies that have suffered its consequences. It is strictly non-ethnic, non-denominational and non-governmental. <strong>Radio La Benevolencija HTF</strong> takes as its role model La Benevolencija Sarajevo, a local organization that played a unique humanitarian role during the Bosnian war (1992-1995). It is as a result of the work of founding Director, George Weiss, for this organization that, in 2002, a group of Amsterdam-based media professionals was inspired to set up an organisation to produce media projects in <strong>La Benevolencija</strong>’s unique spirit of solidarity with, and empowerment of, people who are the targets of hate violence. Using a combination of edutainment methodologies and comparative psychological research, RLB’s media intervention in Rwanda, the DRC and Burundi is a prototype campaign to embed, in national audiences, scientific knowledge of how to resist the psychological pressures and demagoguery that turn individuals into perpetrators of mass hate. RLB’s radio soaps, factual documentaries and educational programmes, in combination with grassroots activities, convey this knowledge while simultaneously stimulating best practices of active bystandership. Regular parallel impact evaluations are conducted to measure the effectiveness of this Intervention tool and to ensure that the strategies and methodologies are attuned to specific contexts. The educational component of<strong> La Benevolencija</strong> radio (and recent Film & television) programs, and grassroots activities, is informed by the research and theory of Professor Ervin Staub of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on the origins of genocide and other mass violence, their prevention, and reconciliation, and on Dr. Laurie Anne Pearlman’s work on trauma and recovery. They and their associates (Rezarta Bilali, Adin Thayer and Johanna Vollhardt) are involved in developing and editing programs in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo (DRC). Much of this work is described in Staub’s 2011 book, Overcoming Evil: Genocide, violent conflict and terrorism.</span></p>
<p><span>www.labenevolencija.org</span></p>
Editing:
Jean Marie Ndihokubwayo & Pacifique Nzintonda
Sound:
Olivier ''Bright'' NDAYISHIMIYE
Art Director:
Pascal Capitolin & JM Ndihokubwayo
Cast 2:
Jean-François Régis HAKIZUMUKAMA
Film synopsis:
<p>Somewhere in Africa, year 2058, a man and a woman are in front of a camera. They tell their story that started fourty one years earlier, Mid. 2017. On a hill, a formerly green country, the local population face a major crisis . The water is contaminated. Any drop of rain or source water is nor proper for consumption or cultivate. It is imperative to treat it. This extreme situation is causing the emergence of two separate clans Abanyamazi (experts in water treatment) and Abagabuzi (farmers and traders). Both clans live in peace, but a secret antagonism reign on their relationships. In this context of mutual distrust Nijimbere Kamikazi love each other. They decided to live together. Nijimbere is umugabuzi and Kamikazi umunyamazi. Unbeknownst to their families, they regularly communicate with the complicity of Mizero, the cousin of Nijimbere. But circumstances will soon evolve and change the course of their lives and the entire community.</p>
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Between $100 000 and $10 000
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Festival selections:
FESTICAB (International Film Festival in Burundi) 2014 : Award for best Fiction and for best man role.
Arusha Film Festival 2014
Awards received:
<p><span>FESTICAB (International Film Festival in Burundi) 2014 : Award for best Fiction and for best man role.</span></p>
Film reviews:
<p>http://www.iwacu-burundi.org/i-mashoka-le-coup-de-coeur/</p>
<p>Dans le cadre des projections de la 6ème édition du Festicab (Festival International du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel du Burundi), j’ai glané dans le vergé cinématographique nous proposé durant cette semaine de la mi-juin 2014 et j’ai découvert un fruit cinématographique de la saveur de nos mangues de novembre. <em>« I Mashoka »</em>, long métrage réalisé par Jean-Marie Ndihokubwayo et Pascal Capitolin est tout à fait succulent.</p>
<p>Du point de vue thématique, le film revient sur le thème de l’eau<span><a class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" href="http://www.iwacu-burundi.org/i-mashoka-le-coup-de-coeur/#footnote_0_46556" id="identifier_0_46556" title="Comme son nom l’indique, il s’agit du pays de l’eau. C’est le lieu où les troupeaux vont s’abreuver après avoir brouté, avant de rentrer au bercail.">1</a></span> . Il est dans la droite ligne des « romans paysans » dont parle Lylian Kesteloot.<span><a class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" href="http://www.iwacu-burundi.org/i-mashoka-le-coup-de-coeur/#footnote_1_46556" id="identifier_1_46556" title="Kesteloot, Lilyan, Histoire de la Littérature Négro-Africaine, Paris, Karthala – AUF, 2001(mis à jour en 2004), p 27.">2</a></span><br />
Comme le magnifique livre Gouverneur de la Rosée (1944) du Haïtien Jacques Roumain et les films français Jean de Florette et Manon des Sources (1986) de Claude Berri, le nœud du drame tourne autour de la lutte âpre pour contrôler la gestion de l’eau. <em>« I Mashoka »</em> est aussi une histoire d’amour entre des jeunes de deux communautés antagonistes. Comme les « Montaigu » et les « Capulet » dans Roméo et Juliette de Shakespeare, comme les « Bahutu » et les « Batutsi » dans<em> L’Optimiste</em> de François-Xavier Nayigiziki ou comme les « Nta » et les « Mbala » dans <em>Au Pays de Mbala</em> d’Ambroise Niyonsaba, la jeunesse peut incarner le pire comme le meilleur. Mais, pourvu qu’on lui permette de s’épanouir dans le vrai et la fraternité elle est toujours grosse d’un avenir radieux.</p>
<p><em>« I Mashoka »</em> est un long métrage<span><a class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" href="http://www.iwacu-burundi.org/i-mashoka-le-coup-de-coeur/#footnote_2_46556" id="identifier_2_46556" title="C’est le second long métrage jamais réalisé par un Burundais depuis « Gito, l’Ingrat » (1991">3</a></span>) d’une facture exceptionnelle. Par-delà l’intérêt évident des thèmes développés, le film est joué admirablement par des comédiens mis en bouquet à l’aide d’une technique de son et de lumière de très grande qualité. Les réalisateurs ont su rendre justice à la beauté inoubliable des collines du pays par des panoramiques et des plans fixes de la région du Mumirwa.<span><a class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" href="http://www.iwacu-burundi.org/i-mashoka-le-coup-de-coeur/#footnote_3_46556" id="identifier_3_46556" title="Le versant Ouest de la Crête Congo-Nil">4</a></span> L’adjonction du dessin animé dans l’écriture et la projection de la narration dans un futur lointain donne à l’œuvre une dimension qui transcende les contingences de l’heure pour préserver la quintessence de l’humanité dans ses faiblesses, mais aussi dans toute sa grandeur.</p>
<p><em>« I Mashoka »</em> est un film à voir et qui fera date car il s’agit d’une œuvre artistique qui s’est refusée de verser dans la médiocrité ou même simplement dans la facilité. Avec peu de moyens et beaucoup d’amour et d’abnégation toute l’équipe qui a créé ce film vient de marquer du sceau de l’excellence l’histoire du cinéma burundais.<br />
<em>« I Mashoka »</em> est un fruit à déguster à pleins… yeux et oreilles!</p>
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