Locarno Open Doors Buzz Title ‘Chapa 100,’ From Ique Langa, Adds Luminalia, Mo Harare, Mostafa El Kasha (EXCLUSIVE)  

In a drive into sub-Saharan African cinema, Luminalia is also representing Langa’s ‘The Prophet’ and ‘Atcha Atcha,’ the new doc by award winning Senegalese director Mamadou Dia

By John Hopewell

John Hopewell

Chief International Correspondent

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“Chapa 100,” the 2025 Atlas Workshops Development Award winner, now a potential highlight at Locarno’s Africa-focused strand Open Doors, has been boarded by Italy-based sales agent Luminalia.

Written and directed by Mozambique’s Ique Langa, “Chapa 100” has also added as an associate producer Mo Harawe, whose “The Village Next to Paradise” screened in Cannes Festival’s 2024 Un Certain Regard to enthusiastic reviews, Variety hailing it as a “quietly powerful film.”

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