The film from Amy Jephta centers on a Muslim widow looking 'to bring together her fractured family over Eid-al-Fitr to break the news about her new romance.'
, which means “blessings” in Arabic, is “told in Afrikaaps, the widely spoken Cape dialect of the Afrikaans language,” Monday’s news release said. “The first Afrikaaps dictionary is currently in development after being announced earlier this year.”
“I am so proud that our small story about a family has reached as many people as it has,” said Jephta. “To be recognized by South Africa in this way is incredibly special after an extremely challenging year for our film industry.”, released in South African cinemas in May, with producer Ephraim Gordon, who co-founded production companies PaperJet Films and Nagvlug Films with her.
South Africa won what was back then known as the best foreign-language film Oscar in 2005 for Gavin Hood’swas nominated in 2004, while Oliver Schmitz’sBarakat was developed in partnership with kykNET, a channel owned by pay TV giant MultiChoice, and funded in association with South Africa’s Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, the NFVF, The Industrial Development Corporation and Indigenous Film Distribution, the film’s South African distributor.
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