Queer romance “Kachifo, Till The Morning Comes,” Johannesburg-set funeral farce “Death & Its Friends” and feel-good heist movie “The Color Yellow” (“Manjano”) look like potential standouts at Locarno’s 2025 Africa-focused Open Doors, unspooling on-site at Locarno Over Aug. 7-12.
Directed by Dika Ofoma, “Kachifo” marks the latest from Nigeria’s Blu House Studios, led by Blessing Uzzi, who wrote and produced “Freedom Way,” a hit at 2024’s Toronto Festival.
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At Locarno with “Death & Its Friends” and behind Netflix series“Baddies Joburg,” which she created, producer Kudi Maradzika, calls the film “‘Parasite’ meets ‘Triangle of Sadness,’” “a darkly comic family drama about grief,
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