The latest exciting entry in the expanding canon of Black feminist cinema, Freda has struck a powerful chord with audiences worldwide. Its director, Gessica Geneus, talks to Black Film Festival Wales founder Yvonne Connikie.
film profile] and taking part in the Un Certain Regard strand of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a political film, a call to arms against patriarchal oppression and a family drama. Here, viewers will familiarise themselves with a society where it is really hard to be young and there is not a ray of hope in sight.
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The story, penned by the helmer herself, revolves around a young girl called Freda (played with great grace by
Néhémie Bastien), who lives with her overly pious mother, Jeanette (
Fabiola Rémy), and carefree sister Esther (
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