Summary: 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.

Description: On the importance of traditional communication structures for the effective dissemination of knowledge and information 11 AM Jacqueline van Vugt, Bambara Blues (The Netherlands, 2007, 70 min.) 12.15 PM Panel discussion. 13.15 PM Peter Glenn, Into the Light (USA, 2007, 82 min.)

Summary: 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.

Summary: 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.

Summary:

1. Kyle O’Donoghue, Brass Boys (South-Africa, 2007, 42 min.)

The Young Brass Sounds was founded in 2005 to cheer on the Ajax Cape Town team. The band keeps the kids off the street and away from gang related violence.

2. Robert Zemeckis and Richard Williams, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (USA, 1988, 120 min.)

Here animated characters are real beings who live and work alongside humans in the real world, most of them as actors in animated cartoons.

Summary:

1. Femke and Ilse Van Velzen, Fighting the Silence (The Netherlands, 2007, 53 min)

During Congo’s 7 year war, 80.000 women were raped. The story of women and men to change their society that prefers to blame victims rather than prosecute rapists.

2. Daniel Junge, Iron Ladies of Liberia (USA, 2007, 77 min.)

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.

Summary:

1. Raquel Cepeda, Bling! a Planet Rock (US/Sierra Leone, 2007, 87 min.)

This film takes a look at how the flashy world of commercial hip-hop played a significant role in the 10-year civil war in Sierra Leone.

2. David Lachapelle, Rize (U.S.A., 2005, 86 min.)

Rize reveals a dance phenomenon born from oppression in US ghettos which modernizes moves unique to African tribal rituals with athletic movement sped up to impossible speeds.

Summary:

1. Femke and Ilse Van Velzen, Fighting the Silence (The Netherlands, 2007, 53 min)

During Congo’s 7 year war, 80.000 women were raped. The story of women and men to change their society that prefers to blame victims rather than prosecute rapists.

2. Daniel Junge, Iron Ladies of Liberia (USA, 2007, 77 min.)

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.

Summary:

1. Kyle O’Donoghue, Brass Boys (South-Africa, 2007, 42 min.)

The Young Brass Sounds was founded in 2005 to cheer on the Ajax Cape Town team. The band keeps the kids off the street and away from gang related violence.

2. Robert Zemeckis and Richard Williams, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (USA, 1988, 120 min.)

Here animated characters are real beings who live and work alongside humans in the real world, most of them as actors in animated cartoons.

Summary:

1. Roger Gnoan M’Bala, In the Name of Christ (1993, Ivory Coast, 82 min.)

In a small Ivorian village lives a much-despised little swineherd. One day, after one drink too many, a childlike God comes to him in a vision and elects him to save his people.

2. Franco Sacchi, This is Nollywood (U.S.A., 2007, 53 min)

This film tells the story of the Nigerian film industry—a revolution enabling Africans with few resources to tell African stories to African audiences.

Summary:

1. Roger Gnoan M’Bala, In the Name of Christ (1993, Ivory Coast, 82 min.)

In a small Ivorian village lives a much-despised little swineherd. One day, after one drink too many, a childlike God comes to him in a vision and elects him to save his people.

2. Franco Sacchi, This is Nollywood (U.S.A., 2007, 53 min)

This film tells the story of the Nigerian film industry—a revolution enabling Africans with few resources to tell African stories to African audiences.

Summary:

1. Raquel Cepeda, Bling! a Planet Rock (US/Sierra Leone, 2007, 87 min.)

This film takes a look at how the flashy world of commercial hip-hop played a significant role in the 10-year civil war in Sierra Leone.

2. David Lachapelle, Rize (U.S.A., 2005, 86 min.)

Rize reveals a dance phenomenon born from oppression in US ghettos which modernizes moves unique to African tribal rituals with athletic movement sped up to impossible speeds.

Summary:

1. Fadika Kramo-Laancine, Djeli (Ivory Coast, 1981, 92 min)

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.

2. Adama Drabo, Taafe Fanga (Skirt Power) (Mali, 1997, 103 min.)

One of the Dogon legends told in the form of a comedy discusses the subject of women in a changing society through the story of the women’s uprising on the rocks of Bandiagara.

Summary:

1. Fadika Kramo-Laancine, Djeli (Ivory Coast, 1981, 92 min)

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.

2. Adama Drabo, Taafe Fanga (Skirt Power) (Mali, 1997, 103 min.)

One of the Dogon legends told in the form of a comedy discusses the subject of women in a changing society through the story of the women’s uprising on the rocks of Bandiagara.

Summary: 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.