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Start: 04/05/2008 10:00 am
This powerful film is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in a remote corner of the French Alps. Start: 04/05/2008 1:00 pm
In the north of Mexico there is a Mennonite community that tries to lead its simple religiously-inspired farming life as far as possible away from interfering authorities. Start: 04/05/2008 3:30 pm
Kaka is a wife beater and an alcoholic, who after years of subjecting his wife to violence, is treated to a dose of his own medicine. He changes his wayward behaviour albeit late… Start: 04/05/2008 5:00 pm
Presented by the filmmaker 2005 world news: in a village in northern Afghanistan a 29 year-old woman had been publicly stoned for adultery. The film follows their affair, trial and punishment with piercing candour. Start: 04/05/2008 6:15 pm
A furtive body performs a work that unites the lore of the North Atlantic Minkisi cults and the Nisibidi of the Ejagham while channeling music and speech from the late African American composer Sun Ra. | 5
Start: 05/05/2008 12:15 am
Amin returns suddenly to Fes, Morocco, where his uncle is dying. He has not spoken with the man who brought him up since he left his hometown ten years earlie Start: 05/05/2008 10:00 am
This film collects a series of modest portraits of street children trying to survive in the Ghanian capitol of Accra. Start: 05/05/2008 11:00 am
This film explores the transformative role of hip-hop on politics in Senegal during the February 2007 presidential election campaign Start: 05/05/2008 1:45 pm
Start: 05/05/2008 3:00 pm
This film follows Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa in her first year in office and the daunting tasks she faces in war torn Liberia. Start: 05/05/2008 6:30 pm
A man relates a story at a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, who predicts the future. A terrible prophecy is offered which comes to pass. Start: 05/05/2008 6:30 pm
Start: 05/05/2008 7:00 pm
Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas until a cyclone picks her, her house and her dog up and deposits them in the land of Oz. The way home proves to be filled with obstacles. Start: 05/05/2008 8:00 pm
This film profiles the life of a young South African musician, Unathi living abroad driven by her gusto for life and single minded determination to succeed against all odds. Start: 05/05/2008 8:45 pm
Buñuel’s penultimate film, it contains short incidents and scenarios collected from throughout Buñuel's life, arranged in the style of a surreal game. Start: 05/05/2008 9:15 pm
Zonk! confirms that despite the poverty and degradation of township life, the human spirit could triumph through music. Start: 05/05/2008 10:15 pm
It started 50 years ago, when a white bank clerk bought an old movie theatre in a black neighbourhood of Memphis to start a music studio, concentrating on soul and R&B artists Start: 05/05/2008 10:30 pm
Juliet has reason to suspect that her husband is leading a double life which becomes the prompt for the altogether more complex double life that she will find herself in. Start: 05/05/2008 10:45 pm
Donnie, an intelligent though emotionally troubled teenager sleepwalks when one night, a mysterious jet engine from a commercial aircraft falls into his bedroom. | 6
Start: 06/05/2008 10:00 am
At the time when Maziar Bahari made this documentary, over 100 journalists had been killed or kidnapped in Iraq. The film contains original footage and photographs. Start: 06/05/2008 11:00 am
This curious murder mystery revolves around an old woman who wanders about in a deserted village. She is not truly alone, but rather surrounded by the souls of all people dear to her. Start: 06/05/2008 11:30 am
End: 06/05/2008 2:28 pm
In this fantastic allegory After many years, a father and son will find themselves doomed to be on the opposite ends of a titanic, bloody and harrowing struggle. Start: 06/05/2008 1:00 pm
Ekisil is a story telling film meant to help the viewer to understand a very important part of life, culture and values of the Karimojong people. Start: 06/05/2008 2:30 pm
End: 06/05/2008 3:00 pm
Sissoko’s most popular film shows the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba, and his son Jangine in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali. Start: 06/05/2008 3:45 pm
A Dutch woman went missing on the peak of Mount Mulanje in 2003. Mythical explanations of the local people differ from the pragmatic explanations of others. Start: 06/05/2008 5:00 pm
On the floor of the virunga mountain, where the gorrillas have their habitat, there is Alphonse with his genius bike that impresses every body in his community! Start: 06/05/2008 5:00 pm
In this fascinating portrait of Leonard Johnson, a white homeless drug addict, the history of Johannesburg is turned on its head. Start: 06/05/2008 6:00 pm
This is a true dream some 15 years ago dreamt by Wassanyi Henry Serukenya, mechanical engineer and music composer, on the shores of Dar es Salaam: “I woke up to write a poem yet to be publicly recited†Start: 06/05/2008 6:30 pm
When a journalist is able to travel abroad to raport on his country a dangerous letter is discovered in his possession and he is incarcerated in one of Colonel Koulbou’s brutal underground prisons. Start: 06/05/2008 6:30 pm
Sum Sum is Senegalese liquor that reportedly “makes the sun shine in your headâ€, but above all causes serious personal and social problems. Start: 06/05/2008 7:00 pm
This journalistic portrait of Television Notre Patrie, the rebels TV station in the norhtern part of the country, is a thorough presentation of the history of this channel. Start: 06/05/2008 7:00 pm
In four episodes, the figure of an artist stunningly passes through a mirror into another dimension, where he is enmeshed in various bizarre scenarios. Start: 06/05/2008 8:00 pm
Sylla intended to film psychiatric patients who roam the streets of Dakar, but encountered Aminta Ngom who spends her days confined to the courtyard of her family’s house. Start: 06/05/2008 8:00 pm
A nurse comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica. When she falls in love with the husband, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony. Start: 06/05/2008 8:15 pm
Start: 06/05/2008 8:25 pm
This film is an epic animated collage of victorian elements which have been reconfigured into an alchemical dream of encrypted languages and savage primordial states. Start: 06/05/2008 9:30 pm
A slightly surreal game show centres on two American brothers, Ned and Nick who were separated at a young age while on safari. Start: 06/05/2008 9:30 pm
Trapped together over Eastern in the ladies of the 15th floor of a Nairobi Skyscraper, the Luther and Di have no choice but to make the best of it despite their differences. Start: 06/05/2008 10:10 pm
Rag and Tag are childhood friends who reunite after many years. During a trip to Nigeria they realize their feelings for each other are more than just friendship and their love blossoms. Start: 06/05/2008 11:30 pm
A Detective works security at Dreampia, a department store rebuilt after a fire meets a girl who tells him that her sister did not die in the fire but is trapped in the mirrors. | 7
Start: 07/05/2008 12:30 am
Made up of images of South Africa, its nature, people and cities, without comment, edited to the hypnotic music of the Cape Town-based musician Campbell Burns. Start: 07/05/2008 10:00 am
16 years passed since the revolution. Together with the owner of a local television post, two men undertake a TV broadcast if the revolution has happened in their village. Start: 07/05/2008 10:00 am
16 years passed since the revolution. Together with the owner of a local television post, two men undertake a TV broadcast if the revolution has happened in their village. Start: 07/05/2008 10:30 am
A pointed moral tale from the master. Munho and Hyeon-gon are two friends who meet up years later to find out that both share a love affair with Seon-hwa. Start: 07/05/2008 11:15 am
After the death of his father, a shy young man lands a boring job as calendar-maker in Paris and falls in love with his charming neighbour Stéphanie. Start: 07/05/2008 11:30 am
Filmed in a Darfur displacement camp and in a remote village in the Nuba Mountains, this film tells the harrowing story of children caught in the crossfire of Sudan's two wars. Start: 07/05/2008 11:30 am
Filmed in a Darfur displacement camp and in a remote village in the Nuba Mountains, this film tells the harrowing story of children caught in the crossfire of Sudan's two wars. Start: 07/05/2008 2:30 pm
On the night-time streets of Beira Port in Mozambique, commercial sex workers hold their own informal clinics to protect themselves against HIV. Start: 07/05/2008 4:30 pm
The story of a young man Yonas, who must come to grips with his father’s destructive behaviour and the resulting chaos that behaviour wrecks on Yonas family. Start: 07/05/2008 4:30 pm
Separate lives intersect for the one moment, revolving around a discarded pastry bag and a African, and all are altered. We follow each as repercussions of the incident play out. Start: 07/05/2008 6:00 pm
I. New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel As usual, the group will offer a performance which will fuse the spoken word and storytelling of these texts with integrated music and visual elements. Start: 07/05/2008 6:30 pm
Start: 07/05/2008 7:00 pm
A story of entangled relationships in which a group of high society characters converge for a weekend on an estate that produces revelations of hidden feelings and secrets. Start: 07/05/2008 8:00 pm
Ngabo and his Sangwa leave Kigali to put something right from the past but when they stop at Sangwa’s parental home his father finds out that Ngabo is from a different tribe. Start: 07/05/2008 8:30 pm
This was the first film to reveal the full horrors of apartheid to the world. Produced by a small group of black South African exiles based in London, it caused an uproar. Start: 07/05/2008 9:30 pm
Determined to find out what white identity means to whites Desai strikes out on a road trip across South Africa with a light spirit and an enquiring mind. Start: 07/05/2008 9:45 pm
We follow the lives of a father and son, each trying to find happiness in a dysfunctional family, where the wife and mother is at a loss of how to manage the men in her life. Start: 07/05/2008 11:00 pm
The dead come back to life and eat the living. This was the premise for a simple low budget film independently produced in far-from-Hollywood Pittsburgh, Pa. | 8
Start: 08/05/2008 12:30 am
A tragic drama concerning a very poor man who marries a wealthy woman and the ensuing disharmony that is generated by mutual misunderstandings. Start: 08/05/2008 6:45 am
This documentary tells the story of 120 000 South African black soldiers who volunteered to serve in the Second World War on the side of the British. Start: 08/05/2008 7:00 am
The film follows a cart driver through Dakar as he scrapes together a living. The cart driver’s reflections are offered as voice over while the different people he meets en route. Start: 08/05/2008 7:00 am
A memory transplant for an imaginary trip to Mars goes wrong and another personality surfaces. When his old self returns, his friends seem to have orders to kill him. Start: 08/05/2008 7:00 am
This film poem rhythmically combines the reminiscences of a dying man with memories during World War II, recollections of a divorce in the family and newsreel footage. Start: 08/05/2008 7:15 am
This debut feature is a cautionary tale on the personal struggle to find moral balance between upholding indigenous customs and embracing progressive ideals. Start: 08/05/2008 8:15 am
About the 25-year evolution of hip hop in South Africa, from its birth through the insurgence of black consciousness and the political uprising in the 1980s in the face of Apartheid. Start: 08/05/2008 8:30 am
The film confines itself to the relationship between an actress who has refused to speak after having a breakdown and the nurse who is assigned to take care of her. Start: 08/05/2008 8:30 am
We meet Jeff Gerber who has a wife, two kids, a nice home and shows himself to be racist and a male chauvinist, wakes up in the middle of the night as a black man. Start: 08/05/2008 8:30 am
The film provides an unsparing view of village life and traditions while capturing the fateful constrictions brought about by custom. Start: 08/05/2008 9:00 am
Billy Pilgrim lives simultaneously in his past as an American POW, in the future as a resident of a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, and in the present as an optometrist. Start: 08/05/2008 9:00 am
Multi media artist Delphine Kreutzer has here crafted a bracing topsy turvey camcorder portrait of our contemporary media/net saturated existence with no holds barred. Start: 08/05/2008 10:00 am
In a gloomy future world, young people are addicted to an illegal and deadly battle simulation game called Avalon. Start: 08/05/2008 10:00 am
Common law is not recognized in Congolese law, but the population adheres to the procedures that are governed by rituals and passed on from one generation to the next. Start: 08/05/2008 10:00 am
One of the first Ugandan features, this film is about young Nabakaabya, who falls victim to the common taboo in Ugandan families to talk to children about issues of sexuality. Start: 08/05/2008 10:00 am
In1977, the Japanese school girl Megumi disappeared off the face of the earth as if by magic. Thirty years later, the family and the acquaintances of the girl are still stunned. Start: 08/05/2008 10:15 am
Cheryl is young, black, and lesbian and consumed by a film project on her search for a black actress who appeared in 1930s films and was known as the Watermelon Woman. Start: 08/05/2008 10:30 am
Entirely shot with a PD150 camcorder while working without a script this experimental film is about an actress who realizes her life is a mimicry of the film they're shooting. Start: 08/05/2008 10:45 am
Romero’s penchant for outlandish satire: Urbanites hole up in a deserted shopping mall and discover that the dead surely delight in doing what they did most while alive: go shopping! Can they hold out, not only against the dead but against their own delirium? Start: 08/05/2008 11:00 am
At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices when they stumble on something beyond imagination. Start: 08/05/2008 11:30 am
A layered film which chronicles the lives of three generations of one family: a soldier from the Second World War, a sportsman and a taxidermist. Start: 08/05/2008 1:45 pm
A simple story of a country lad who comes to the city to look for work, takes some knocks adjusting to city life, but comes out on top when his singing talent is discovered. Start: 08/05/2008 3:00 pm
This film looks at the history of the East African coast, tracing events from ancient times through the arrival of the first Arab settlers in the 8th century to contemporary global impact. Start: 08/05/2008 4:00 pm
Tajoog is the beautiful cousin of a young tribal man who is deeply in love with her. This sets the stage for a series of transgressions which will result in tragedy. Start: 08/05/2008 4:00 pm
This film tells the story of the Nigerian film industry—a revolution enabling Africans with few resources to tell African stories to African audiences. Start: 08/05/2008 5:00 pm
A celebration of amateur filmmaker Kahloucha, a house painter with an infectious personality and a love for seventies genre film, shoots hilarious features on a VHS Panasonic 3500. Start: 08/05/2008 6:00 pm
A documentary about the challenges facing the institution of education in Sudan. Start: 08/05/2008 7:00 pm
End: 08/05/2008 9:00 pm
The story, adapted from a Malawi folktale, is told in a captivating body language, animation, song and vivid descriptions. This story is written and produced by Dr. Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare, /Drama Section, MDD Department, Makerere University and performed by John Masinde, student MDD. Start: 08/05/2008 8:00 pm
This film is about Ethiopian and Somali domestic workers in Yemen, and in particular about the ways in which they survive under difficult circumstances. | 9
Start: 09/05/2008 12:15 am
Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Miserables is adapted in Arab using this narrative as a parable concerning the will to change perceived as crucial for the future of Sudan. Start: 09/05/2008 10:45 am
When the Honorable Dickson realises he is HIV Positive, he goes on a rampage by infecting unsuspecting young girls. Little did he know that one of the victims, Florence, was his only son Brian’s girlfriend. Start: 09/05/2008 2:30 pm
A poor Senegalese Muslim who, upon trying to cash a money-order at his village post office, somehow finds himself pitted against bureaucratic and societal forces. Start: 09/05/2008 6:00 pm
End: 09/05/2008 6:30 pm
Emizimu Batembuzi returns with an excerpt from their new work in progress which is exploring the parallel space occupied by our obsessive thoughts about the past, the present and the future and the multiplicity of meanings that become entangled there. As usual, the company mixes aspects of choreography, mime, dramatics and video recording to create a cross cutting between thematic variations. | 10
Start: 10/05/2008 12:52 am
Here an insignificant event can become a disaster for a child but the kindness of the child’s soul is capable to work a miracle… even to animate a tiny fish Start: 10/05/2008 9:10 am
A fresh vantage point on modern life is offered through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth—in Harlem, naturally—and is taken in by the regulars at a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down? Start: 10/05/2008 9:15 am
This film shows the horrifying but sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany, brilliantly recreates the relentless spirit of grim paranoia. Start: 10/05/2008 10:00 am
Through Fousseini, a Muslim firmly attached to his faith and traditions, and his family, Drissa Toure draws a picture of Ouagadougou in the traps of modernism and traditionalism. Start: 10/05/2008 10:45 am
Prof. Henri Laborit (played by himself) uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. Start: 10/05/2008 11:30 am
Years after the Civil War, former slave Sethe lives with her daughter, Denver. When Paul, a former slave friend, joins the family, strange things start to happen. Start: 10/05/2008 11:30 am
A shape shifter comes from the desert in search of victims, a spirit the locals call ‘The Dust Devil’. He prays on those that have already lost everything but life itself. Start: 10/05/2008 11:45 am
A mystical guide introduces a follower to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. Together they seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal. Start: 10/05/2008 4:10 pm
Two Ivorian students are in love and talking about marriage. Despite their fast-changing world, the two families oppose the marriage of their children in the name of tradition. Start: 10/05/2008 5:30 pm
Start: 10/05/2008 5:45 pm
Buster operates the movie projector at a theatre. He retreats into the fantasy world of a picture showing at his theatre, which results in a tremendous display of comedic fantasy.. Start: 10/05/2008 6:00 pm
In the Eastern Cape hamlet of Hamburg a fully-fledged war is being fought by grandmothers, the hospice, the good doctor Carol and Eunice for hope, human dignity and the will to live. Start: 10/05/2008 6:30 pm
End: 10/05/2008 7:45 pm
Antonin Artaud: There Will Be No More Firmament The Okusimbuliza Repertory Theatre has devoted itself to the African re-interpretation of celebrated canonical works of modernist world drama. Both of the works we present here are apparently unstageable. Okusimbuliza Repertory Theatre will swallow the bait whole and see where the circuitous negotiations with the medium will take them. These parallel worlds will certainly yield the unexpected. Start: 10/05/2008 7:00 pm
A young cannibal is condemned to be torn to pieces by wild beasts while in another time Julius lies down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships. Start: 10/05/2008 7:30 pm
Start: 10/05/2008 7:30 pm
In West Africa late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against neighbouring tribes, to kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. Start: 10/05/2008 8:45 pm
Mick Travis progresses from coffee salesman to personal assistant to a corporate mastermind in this surreal allegory learning that he must abandon his principles in order to succeed. |