Alva
After his children are taken away by social services, a troubled loner seeks revenge and flees into the inhospitable forest.
98'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Event
IFFR 2019
Photographer, cameraman and director Khalik Allah his approach, which he himself describes as 'Camera Ministry'. It results in work that has already been described as 'street opera': honest and intimate, overwhelming and colourful. It did not go unnoticed: in 2016 Allah worked as cameraman and assistant director on Beyoncé's famous video album Lemonade.
As a photographer, since 2012 he has recorded nightlife on the junction of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in the New York district of Harlem. With analogue cameras and only ambient light sources, he made raw and intimate shots of the colourful locals. In 2015, he broke through as a filmmaker with Field Niggas. The sequel, Black Mother, a documentary ode to Jamaica, the homeland of Allah's mother, won the Yellow Robin Award at the last IFFR Curaçao. In this talk, organised in cooperation with World Press Photo Rotterdam, he talks about the background and making of this magnum opus.
Event
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
Emerging talent with original subject matter and an individual style. Includes the films nominated for the Bright Future Competition for first feature films.
Read more about this programmeAfter his children are taken away by social services, a troubled loner seeks revenge and flees into the inhospitable forest.
98'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Fourteen absurd encounters of a melancholy girl with the surrounding world in this post-modern comedy filled with pastel and neon lights.
80'
Germany
IFFR 2019
Life’s key elements come together in this visual film symphony and ode to today's colourful Jamaica.
77'
Jamaica
IFFR 2019