Summary: Goodbye Dragon Inn

Summary: A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a storm inside an old movie theatre, a decrepit old barn of a cinema that is screening a martial arts classic, King Hu's Dragon Inn.

Summary: Syndromes and a Century

Summary: movies

Summary: In 1899 in French Sudan, a French column is sent against Sultan Rabah. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, clever in war tactics and witchcraft, decides to resist those mad men.

Summary: movies

Summary: Every year the most beautiful girl is sacrificed to the Python God. What really happens is that the priests murder her, so that she cannot reveal that the python god does not exist.

Summary: For Xala, Sembene adapted his own novel: A government official, "El Hadji,” on marrying his third wife, on his wedding night is struck with a ‘xala’, a curse of impotence.

Summary: Atuwa Children Puppet Theatre performs the puppet play

Description: This film, though directed by an Italian, represents the first real Sub-Saharan African feature film. It was recently rediscovered and perhaps the only silent African film of its kind.

Summary: Moolaadé is a rousing Brechtian spectacle that feels like an oral history of a distinctly unpleasant topic: the all-too-common practice of female genital mutilation,

Description: 4 PM Manthia Diawara and Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Sembene: The Making of African Cinema (U.S.A., 1994, 60 min.) 5 PM Panel discussion: Ousmane Sembene’s: His life, his films and his literature Discussants joining Dominic Dipio will be Dr. Katebalirwe Amooti wa Irumba (Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economics Development), Dr Aaron Mushengyezi (Literature Department Makerere University) and Cindy Magara (independent filmmaker) joined by the festivals guest of honour Gadalla Gubara, who was a personal friend of Sembene. 7 PM Ousmane Sembene, Borem Sarrat (Senegal, 1963, 65 min) Ousmane Sembene, Un Noire de… (Black Girl) (Senegal, 1966, 22 min)

Summary: Song of Africa

Summary: Okulamba Dance Theater has been invited to perform a work which combines music, dance, drama and video images. Projected images enables the work to make a statement on our globalized world and on how the communication media can influence our perception. Are our perceptions accurate?