Barakat (2020 film)

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Barakat
Directed by Amy Jephta
Written byAmy Jephta
Produced byEphraim Gordon
Wikus du Toit
Starring Vinette Ebrahim
Joey Rasdien
Mortimer Williams
Quanita Adams
Keeno Lee Hectormade
CinematographyEbrahim Hajee
Edited bySanjin Muftic
Music byKyle Shepherd
Production
companies
Nagvlug
PaperJet Productions
Distributed byIndigenous Film Distribution
Release dates
  • September 2020 (2020-09)(Urbanworld)
  • 28 May 2021 (2021-05-28)(South Africa)
Running time
103 minutes
CountrySouth Africa
LanguagesAfrikaans
English
Box office$66,181

Barakat is a 2020 South African family drama film directed by Amy Jephta and produced by Ephraim Gordon. [1] It is the first Afrikaans-language Muslim feature film produced in South Africa. [2] [3] [4] The film stars Vinette Ebrahim in the lead role and Joey Rasdien, Mortimer Williams, Quanita Adams and Keeno Lee Hector in supportive roles. [5] [6]

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Plot

The film deals with family problems where an ageing matriarch brings together her fractured, dysfunctional family over Eid-al-Fitr in order to introduce her new romantic partner, after her husband's death some years ago. [7]

Production

The film was shot in and around Lansdowne and Athlone on the Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa. [8]

Release

The film made its theatrical premiere on 28 May 2021 in Cape Town, hosted by Vangate Mall. The film received positive reviews from critics and screened in many global film festivals. [9] [10] [11] The film was selected to screen as the closing film for Film Africa 2020 in London, but this was later cancelled due to the second lockdown in the United Kingdom. [12] The film was officially selected for 2020 Urbanworld, [13] Black TIFF 2021 and the 2021 Pan African Film Festival as well. [14] [15]

Box Office

Barakat received many awards. In 2020, at the Motion Pictures International Film Festival, the film won the awards for the Best Narrative Feature, Best Editing and Best Production. In the same year at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, Barakat won four more awards: Mary Austin Award Excellence in Directing, Best Ensemble Cast, Best International Feature and Best Supporting Actor as well as won the Runner Up award for the Best Original Score as well. [2] It was selected as the South African entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. [16]

Cast

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