I Want a Wedding Dress

The film directed by renowned writer and film producer, Tsitsi Dangarembga will show at SterKinekor in Harare.

I Want a Wedding Dress is the story of young Kundisai Sande, who desperately wants to get married but finds herself in a sexual network with disastrous consequences. Her boyfriend Teri deserts her, only to find himself in the same sexual network. Mahachi, the successful, promiscuous businessman who seduces Kundisai, brings infection to the marriage bed. In the midst of their misery, the players in the sexual network come to realise that on love can conquer all.

Dangarembga is well known around the world for her outspoken fight for women rights, women empowerment and her support for the civil society in Zimbabwe. In her work and her public talks around the world she constantly campaigns against domestic violence, abuse of women, and stigmatisation of HIV-positive people.

Her writing debut Nervous Conditions was the first novel to be published in English by a black Zimbabwean woman and won her the African section of the Commonwealth Writers prize in 1989.

The role of African women has not changed much. We bear children, make and manage homes, earn our living, contribute to the running of society,” she said in an interview to BBC in 2005. “…Traditionally women have been excluded from economically viable positions in society, and women are having to challenge this exclusion constantly,” she said.

“…I think one problem is a lack of unity amongst women. Women are still very afraid to raise their voices for fear of victimisation, or when they speak, they do not speak from their personal woman’s truth but say what they think possessors of needed resources would want them to say.

In 1992 she started Nyeria Films, a film production company in Harare. She is also the founder and director of International Images Filmfestival for Women and a member of Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe (WFZ).