PREVIEW: Neptune Frost (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Cheryl Isheja (Small Country: An African Childhood), Elvis Ngabo (film debut), Bertrand Ninteretse (film debut), Eliane Umuhire (Trees of Peace), Dorcy Rugamba (Rising Voices), Rebecca Mucyo (film debut), Trésor Niyongabo (film debut), Eric Ngangare (film debut), Natacha Muziramakenga (A Sunday in Kigali), Cécile Kayirebwa (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Saul Williams (film debut), director, writer, producer; Anisia Uzeyman (Dreamstates), director, producer, cinematographer; Maria Judice (Dreamstates) and Ezra Miller (Asking for It), producers; Anisha Acharya (A Thousand Junkies), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In a village in Rwanda made out of computer parts, an intersex runaway named Neptune (Isheja) falls for coltan miner Matalusa (Ninteretse), and their love ignites a hacker collective that soon becomes a revolution…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Afrofuturism doesn’t get more profound than with this sci-fi musical set in Rwanda, which carries an executive producer credit for musical maestro Lin-Manuel Miranda.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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