Five Fingers for Marseilles
South Africa / 2017 / 120 min
Technical Details :
Vuyo Dabula, Hamilton Dhlamini, Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Aubrey Poolo, Lizwi Vilakazi, Warren Masemola, Dean Fourie, Anthony Oseyemi, Brendon Daniels and Jerry Mofokeng. Introducing Toka Mtabane, Vuyo Novokoza, Ntsika Tiyo, Sibusiso Bottoman, Abongile Sithole, Qhawe Soroshi.
Game 7 Films & Be Phat Motel Film Company
James Matthes
Sesotho, English
Festivals & Awards :
Toronto IFF “Discovery” – Official Selection
BFI London Film Festival – Official Selection
Busan IFF – Official Selection
BIFFF – Official Selection
Fribourg IFF – In Competition
Bengaluru IFF India – Official Selection
Febiofest – Official Selection
Louxor African FF Egypt – In Competition
Afrykamera – In Competition
MOOOV – In Competition
Festival Cine Africano Tanger – Official Selection
Festival Policier Liege – Official Selection
Palm Springs IFF – Official Selection
Fantasia – Official Selection
Revelation Perth IFF – Official Selection
AfryKamera – In Competition
African FF FCAT – Official Selection
Munich IFF – Official Selection
African Koln FF – Official Selection
Festival Ecrans Noirs – Official Selection
Hard:Line FF – Official Selection
Festival Cinemas d’Afrique de Lausanne – Official Selection
Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival – Official Selection
World Cinema Amsterdam FF – Official Selection
Brisbane IFF – Official Selection
Africa on Screen – Official Selection
Cinemafrica – Official Selection
Africa in Motion – Official Selection
World Cinema Amsterdam FF – In Competition
World Film Days Thusis FF – Official Selection
Watch Africa Wales FF – Official Selection
iAfrica FF – Official Selection
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Synopsis :
Twenty years after fleeing from the brutal police aggression in colonial Marseilles, a member of the Five Fingers returns seeking peace, but with the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it, in this thriller from South African filmmaker Michael Matthews.
‘Five Fingers for Marseilles’ fuses western influences, from classic to spaghetti and revisionist eras, into a contemporary South African drama played in local tongue by four generations of acclaimed South African stars. The great westerns always contained socio-political threads, and Five Fingers’ loose allegory on today’s South Africa is edge-of-the-seat, and starkly human.
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