Midnight screening · 43rd Edition
MLUNGU WAM (GOOD MADAM)
MLUNGU WAM
Director
Jenna CATO BASS
Country
South Africa
Runtime
1 h 32 min
Language
English, Xhosa, Inuktitut
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
Good Madam is an eerie psychological thriller about Tsidi, a single mother who is forced to move in with her estranged mother Mavis, a live-in domestic worker caring obsessively for her catatonic white !Madam #$ As Tsidi tries to heal her family however, the sinister spectre of ‘Madam’ begins to stir.
Cast
Chumisa Cosa, Nosipho Mtebe, Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya, Sanda Shandu
Screenplay
Jenna Cato Bass, Babalwa Baartman
Producers
Babalwa Baartman, Jenna CATO BASS, Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings
About the Director
South African writer, filmmaker. Her award-winning films include HIGH FANTASY (2017), which have screened around the world, including at the Sundance, Berlinale and Toronto Film Festivals. Together with Wanuri Kahiu, Jenna co-wrote the coming-of-age romance, RAFIKI, which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2018. Her third feature as director and writer, FLATLAND, was the opening film of the 2019 Berlinale Panorama. Jenna also teaches Directing and Screenwriting at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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