MONTREAL/March 28, 2006—
On Thursday, March 30, Concordia's Peace and Conflict Resolution lecture series will present the film Quartier Mozart directed by Jean-Pierre Bekolo. It is part of the sub-series Exploring Conflict and Its Resolution on the African Continent through Film. The film will be shown at 6:45 p.m. in room H- 110 in the Henry F. Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West). It will be followed by a response by Dr. Bob White, professor in the Department of Anthropology at Universitè de Montrèal.
One of the most delightfully unexpected African films in decades, Quartier Mozart was awarded the Prix Afrique en Creation at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and has enchanted film festival audiences from New York to New Delhi.
Told over a 48-hour period in a working class neighborhood in Yaounde, Cameroon, Jean-Pierre Bekolo's film is the story of the not-very-sentimental education of a young schoolgirl known as Queen of the Hood. Maman Thekla, the local sorceress, helps her enter the body of a young man, My Guy, so she can discover for herself the real "sexual politics" of the quartier. Bekolo uses traditional wit and music-video style to create an imaginary world of intoxicating playfulness ó a place where women's wisdom and witchcraft help them achieve a balance of power with the men they both love and struggle against.
For more information about this event, contact Dr. Andrew Ivaska at (514) 848-2424 ext. 2419, or Dr. Leander Schneider at (514)848-2424, ext. 5601.
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Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
