Nkosi Coiffure

Nkosi Coiffure (2015)

Short film written and directed by Frederike Migom
Produced by Jules Debrock
Supported by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
In collaboration with Kuumbaa, Vlaams Afrikaans huis, gemeente Elsene & De Auteurs
Distribution Belgium: Dalton Distribution
Sales: Magnet Film

FR Dans une rue à Matonge, quartier Congolais de Bruxelles, Eva veut couper court à une dispute avec son petit ami en se réfugiant dans un salon de coiffure afro. Voyant une femme en détresse, les coiffeuses du salon volent à son secours. Mais, une fois la raison de la dispute connue, nait entre elles et Eva un certain désaccord...

ENG A fight with her boyfriend on the street in Brussels’ Congolese neighbourhood, sees Eva escape into a hair salon. The African women in the salon initially support her, seeing a woman in distress. But when they find out what the fight is about, opinions differ…

CAST
Eva: Nele Vereecken
Stefan: Kurt Vandendriessche
Soda: Awa Sene Sarr
Jaqueline: Stella Kitoga
Fifi: Wivine Ngoy-Mutemba
Nadège: Nadège Ouédraogo
Linda: Linda Kompany
Felicia: Felicia Ngoy-Mutemba
Alicia: Alicia Ngoy-Mutemba

CREW
Writer/Director: Frederike Migom
Producer: Jules Debrock
Dop: Laurens De Geyter
Sound: Maarten Leemans
Set designer: Talina de Craemer Casier
Sound design: Peter Baert
Music: Jens Bouttery & Fredy Massamba
Costume: Sofie Callaerts
Make up: Jovita Lakau
Hair: Soda Ndeye-Seck

Festivals & Screenings

Women of the Lens Film Festival: London, November 2017

Black International Film Festival: Birmingham, Oktober 2017

Fargo Film Festival: March 2017

Renaissance Film Festival: March 2017

Sao Tomé festfilm: February 2017

Richmond International Film Festival: February 2017

Phnom Penh International Film Festival: Nov 2016

Show Me Shorts Film Festival: Nov 2016

Souq film festival: Nov 2016

Festival di cinema Africano Verona: Nov 2016

Orlando Film Festival: Okt 2016

BFI London Film Festival: Okt 2016

Lunafest (USA): sept-dec 2016

Raindance international Film Festival (UK): Sept 25th, 2016

Film festival Oostende (Belgium): Sept 10th, 2016

Concorto film festival (Italy): August 20-27

Festival Cinema Belge (Nîmes, France): July 15-23, 2016

Theater Aan Zee (Oostende, Belgium): July 30th 2016, 18:00

Traverse City Film Festival, (Michigan, USA): July 30th, 2016

Zanzibar International Film Festival (Tanzania): July 9-17 2016

Big River Film Festival (Savannah, Giorgia): July 7-9 2016

Fickin Festival Kinshasa: July 5-9 2016

Phi Centre Montreal: July 6th 2016

Festival du Film Court en plein air, (Grenoble, France): 5-10 July 2016

Cinef Festival Kinshasa: June 2016

San Fransisco Black Film Festival

ART Film Festival Slovakia

World Festival of Emerging Cinema (Trinidad & Tobago)

Brussels Short Film Festival: April 30, 20:00, May 2, 16:00, May 4, 22:30 (WINNER CANAL+ prix)

Tribeca Film Festival: New York, April 16, 18, 19, 23, 2016

Washington DC International Film Festival: April 20t 2016, Washington DC (WINNER BEST SHORT FILM)

Filmfestival Delicatessen: 31/3 Cinema Zed 20u, 2/4 Cinema Zed 22u30, 4/4 Cinema Zed 17u30, 15/4 Kortgeschoten KLAPPEI 20u, 20/4 Delicatessen SPHINX 20u

Kort Geschoten: April 15h, 20:00 De Klappei, Antwerpen.

Afrika Filmfestival: March 19, 16:30, Museum M, L.Vanderkelenstraat 28, 3000 Leuven

Ciné Privé: march 4th, 20:00, Cirkuskerk Malem, Gent

CC De Ploter: kortfilmfestival: march 2nd, 2016, 20:00

Congo Mix 2, museum of Immigration, Paris: January 27, 2016

Un Poing c'est Court, Festival du film court francophone (France): January 16, 17 2016

Elles Tournent (Brussels): January 31st, 2016

Flickerfest 25th International Short Film Festival (Sydney): January 14th, 2016

Leuven International Short Film Festival (Belgium): November 29, 30th 2015 & December 1st 2015

Izmir International Short film festival (Turkey): November 17-22th 2015.

Valladolid International film festival (Spain): Oktober 26th & 27th, 2015 (WINNER BEST SHORT FILM MEETING POINT)

Elsene Seizoensopening (Brussels): October 2nd, 2015