Painting the Spectrum 12, SASOD’s annual film festival presents films from Africa and Europe next week, when it continues at the Dutch Bottle Café on North Road.
On Tuesday, June 7, Born This Way, a LGBT documentary from Cameroon is scheduled to be shown. The film, which is 85 minutes long, “steps outside the genre of activist filmmaking and offers a vivid and poetic portrait of day-to-day life in modern Africa. Lyrical imagery, devastating homophobia, the influence of western culture and a hidden-camera courtroom drama mysteriously coalesce into a story of what is possible in the global fight for equality,” a description of the film says. It notes that there are more arrests for homosexuality in Cameroon than any other country in the world and the film gives intimate access to the lives of four young gay Cameroonians.
Ma vie en rose (My Life in Pink) is scheduled for