awards/prizes
51. internationale filmfestspiele berlin 2001 teddy-jury-prize
15. international lesbian & gay film festival milano/ bologna
- italia 2001 special jury mention
identities 2001 - queer film festival wien 2001 femmedia prize
for best short film
press_
„...graceful... the most gutsy film to be shown at the
Berlinale.“ (Planetout.com)
Bemerkenswerter Kurzfilm über eine Liebesgeschichte zweier
Frauen in Simbabwe. Wunderschön erzählt von Sue
Maluwa-Bruce.
Dieser Film wurde vom Teddy-Gremium 2001 lobend hervorgehoben,
für seinen Mut, in einem Film Homosexualität in
Simbabwe zu thematisieren, die dort verfolgt wird.
(Bremen's queer film festival)
Zimbabwean filmmaker, Sue Maluwa Bruce, breaks long held
taboos about sexual identity and lesbian love in African society
in her groundbreaking video, "Forbidden Fruit".
(Woman Make Movies New York)
„What is most remarkable about 'Forbidden Fruit' is
its range of appeal.
It opens rural life and village politics in Zimbabwe to a
new understanding, which is reconfigured by the love shared
by the two women protagonists. To a society hostile to that
love, the film responds neither with pleas for tolerance nor
condemnation; instead, 'Forbidden Fruit' exploits passion
in the service of transformation. The inventive reconstruction
of that love story breaks the barriers of genre, too: this
is a docu/dramatic and moving call to queer, global solidarity."
(Amy Villarejo, Cornell University USA)
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c566.htm
.... und auch der Film "Forbidden Fruit" von Sue
Maluwa-Bruce wird präsentiert - der erste Film aus Zimbabwe,
der sich mit einem lesbischen Thema auseinandersetzt.
(Gay And Lesbian Filmfestival Lisboa)
….a wonderful short film from Zimbabwe called "Forbidden
Fruit". Written by, and starring, Sue Maluwa-Bruce, this
film won a Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival
recently. Told mostly as an oral story, with a few scenes
acted out, and shot on location,
this wonderful 30 minute short film told of a single woman
and her married neighbor who fell in love in a small village,
as well as the consequences when they were discovered. Two
years later, they are reunited by chance and decide to go
to a town where they have no family to bother them. When one
considers how few stories by and about lesbians come out of
the African continent, it is very fascinating that this film
ever got made and was even partially shot in Zimbabwe.
If you get a chance, do yourself a favor and check this film
out.
(Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival 2001)
http://www.technodyke.com/features/090401_agliff1.asp
We are told in the brochure that the entire cast resigned
for fear of homophobic repercussions, leaving Maluwa Bruce
to call on her family and friends to act some of the roles
while she narrates the tale and partially acts the roles of
both women. The result is a film, which feels underground
and fearful - one is really left with the sensation of the
work being carried out under enormously adverse conditions.
Using a narrator also gives it the very African feel of the
oral tradition - a little piece of history, it may not
be the best film ever made but it certainly breaks ground
in a Zimbabwean
context. (Daniel Somerville at the 2002 Out in Africa Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival / Johannesburg)
There are so many shorts in the festival (Inside Out Film
Festival/Canada), it's hard to single out just a few, but
the award-winning Forbidden Fruit (****; Saturday, May 26,
2:15pm), an African story about the love between two women,
deserves a special mention. (Catharine Tunnacliff / Toronto)
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_05.17.01/film/insideout.html
book/ director/ screenwriter: sue maluwa bruce
co- director/ camera/ screenwriter/ editor: beate kunath
co- director/ sound/ screenwriter/ still photographer: yvonne
zückmantel
cast and credits_
sue maluwa bruce - storyteller
mai dope - mai gondai/ mary - gondayi/ mai mary - tete/ mai
mutswa - takunda/ muroora - mbuya mukaka/
manu mafunga - householder/ mbuya rukudzo - tsitsi’s
mother/ mbuya muchangana - healer/ sekuru muchangana - healer’s
helper/ great zimbabwe dance group - traditional dancers/
cindy - the dog
music_
- legends - music and text: leonel bastos, yvonne chaka chaka,
johan ackerman, ian osrin
© polygram music publ. south africa pty. ltd./gallo music/tequila
music mit freundlicher genehmigung von universal music publishing
gmbh., edition intro meisel gmbh und enja records m. winkelmann
gmbh/ edition mawi
- great zimbabwe traditonal dancers - live recording may 2000
- afri vocals - written by martine felton/ performed by martine
felton and melanie schely, © martine felton
special thanks to_
yvonne, ralf, lutz, mario, ines at chemnitzer filmwerkstatt,
difranco cafe/kneipe, muzvare nedope, ceals, craig, fraser,
sophie, gerdie, manu
filmed on location in mutare (zimbabwe)
production_ chemnitzer filmwerkstatt, sue maluwa bruce, beate
kunath
vorführungen/ sceenings_
2010_
01. und 04. Juli 2010 ENTZAUBERT - radical queer d.i.y. Film Festival / Berlin
am 01. Juli um 18:30 Uhr Wagenburg/ Schwarzer Kanal
Filmvorführung von forbidden fruit
2007_ kuze/ potsdam, identities lesbisch schwules filmfestival wien/ österreich
2005_ femmes en résistance/ paris// berlin
- nowpink galerie// mpenzi black women’s film
festival toronto
2003_ Begehungen auf dem Sonnenberg/ Chemnitz// München/Germany//
7th Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival/Portugal// 25.
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoaméricano
Havana/Cuba
2002_ Brussels Gay & Lesbian Film Festival// Mardi
Gras Film Festival Sydney/Australia// Out- In- Africa
Film Festival 2002/South Africa// 24th Festival de
Femmes Crétel/ France// Lesbenfilmtage Hannover/Germany//
Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival/USA//
« Afrika in Chemnitz –Frauen in Afrika »/Germany//
Frauenkultur Leipzig/Germany// Dyke TV /New
York /USA// Goethe- Institut Columbia// Feminale/Köln
- Germany// Münster/Germany// Düsseldorf/Germany
2001_ 51. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany//
9. International Lesbian Film Festival Bologna, Italy//
16th Turin International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival// Frauenkino
Xenia/ Zürich// 11th Inside Out Lesbian &
Gay Film/Video Festival of Toronto// 4. Schwul - Lesbisches
Film Festival Münster// 15th Milano Bologna
Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival// identities
2001 Wien Queer Film Festival// 13th New York Lesbian
& Gay Film Festival// Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film
Festival Norway// 25th San Francisco International
Lesbian & Gay Film Festival// Philadelphia International
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival// Lesbenfilmnächte
Halle// 11. Freiburger Lesbenfilmtage// Outfest
2001 19th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival// schwul/lesbische
Filmtage Köln// 14th Annual G/L International
Film Festival Austin/Texas// Africa in the Pictures,
Amsterdam/
Netherlands// 5th Festival de Cinema Gay & Lesbico
de Lisboa// Berlin Lesben Film Festival//
12. Lesbisch/ Schwule Filmtage Hamburg// Milwaukee
Lesbian and Gay Film/Video Festival 2001// Barcelona
7th International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival// Schwul-
Lesbische Filmtage Bremen// 13th Paris Lesbian Film Festival//
schwul/lesbisches Filmfestival Sachsen/Sachsen- Anhalt//
Queersicht lesbisch- schwules Festival Bern/ Schweiz// rencontres
- internationals de cinéma à Paris 2001//
21th Amiens International Film Festival, France// Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival Paris
distribution_
international distributor/ print source:
e-mail: info@b-k-productions.de
usa/ canada/ mexico/ south america distributor/ print
source:
women make movies, inc.
462 broadway, suite 500, new york, ny 10013, www.wmm.com
e-mail: orders@wmm.com
available as_
35mm/ beta sp/ dvd english/shona original version
35mm/ beta sp/ dvd german subtitled version
beta sp/ dvd italian subtitled version
beta sp/ dvd french subtitled version
beta sp/ dvd spanish subtitled version
© 2000 chemnitzer filmwerkstatt, sue maluwa bruce, beate
kunath
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