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Film Screenings on Friday May 21, 2004 |
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 National Theater
Cineplex Garden City
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NATIONAL THEATER
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| 12 am |
Tribute to the late Lionel Ngakane
Lionel Ngakane, Nelson Mandela: The Struggle is my Life, South Africa, 1986, 45 min.
About the freedom struggle of one of the most famous Africans alive made by one of the pioneers of independent African cinema.
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| 1 pm |
Witness Videos: a world wide selection, 30 min. total
Witness is a New York based organization that sends video cameras to every corner of the world in order to support the struggle for human rights.
Peter Wintonick and Katerina Cizek, Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News, USA 2002, 53 min.
This film explores the political and social uses of handicams, featuring courageous activists around the world who use video cameras to document horrific violations against humanity. Drawn from original shooting around the world, and sampling hundreds of hours of exclusive contemporary archives, Seeing is Believing provides a dramatic and multi-faceted window into the power of do-it-yourself filmmaking.
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2.30 pm |
Thomas Balmes, Bosnia Hotel, France, 1996, 50 min.
The story of the United Nations peace keeping force in Bosnia that included soldiers from cultures that did not know where Bosnia was, or what the conflict was about, among them a force from Kenya which included several Samburu warriors.
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| 3.30 pm |
Ugandan Focus I
Donald Mugisha, The Wrath, Uganda, 2004, 10 min.
Tonny Muhebwa, 25 years, employee at Nigamba Island Entebbe was mauled by a chimp called Dosi. A black and white elliptical film on how that fateful day changed his whole life.
Ali Bakka, Woman of Wonder, Uganda 2003, 4.53 min.
About a woman who is completely crippled but does all the work that any able body can do including being the mother of three.
Winnie Gamisha, A Gift from Above Rainwater Harvesting, Uganda, 2003, 22 min.
Shot in Luweero and Nakasongala, areas in Uganda where there is nearly no piped water and people are taught to make good use of the water that comes as rain.
Robbie Wodomal, Woh: The Foot Print of Amnesty International, Uganda, 1998, 20 min.
On the conflicts generated by Amnesty International’s pursuit to uncover human rights abuse in this part of the world
Masiko Buhenga Paul, Sunjugation, Uganda, 12 min.
Countries with limited resources are being over run by countries with abundant financial resources, hence violating their souvereignty. A documentary on the Iraq crisis.
Petna N. Katondolo, Off Scene (making a video clip), Uganda, 2003, 12 min.
Off scene is an expression of the realities behind our camera. The video has been conceived during the shooting of the clip video Tuwakumbuke in September 2003.
May Lugemwa, Former Nationality, Uganda/USA, 2004, 22 min.
What does it mean to be a ‘former Ugandan’? A poetic voiceover addressed from daughter to mother sets the tone of this film that tracks their journey back to Uganda from America.
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| 5 pm |
Introduction by Steven Rwangyezi
R. E. Altman, War Child: Abduction, Uganda/USA, 2002, 58 min.
Kampala’s own Ndere Troupe participated in this dramatic rendering of the war in the north of Uganda and the tragic consequences for the people who live in this state of devastation and tragedy.
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| 6.30 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Leonard Retel Helmrich, The Eye of the Day, The Netherlands/Indonesia, 2003, 94 min.
The filmmaker captured the life and times of Indonesians through political chaos and a depressed economy during the times of President Suharto’s resignation.
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| 8.30 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda:
10.000 years of cinema, DRC Congo/ France, 1991, 13 min.;
Thomas Sankara, DRC Congo/France, 1991, 26 min.
About the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution in the former Upper Volta known today as Burkina Faso, who wanted to give the continent in general and their countries in particular a new socio-political dimension.
afro@digital, DRC Congo/France, 2002, 52 min.
This video explores the current digital revolution that is taking place in Africa.
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10.30 pm |
John Appel, The Last Victory, The Netherlands, 2003, 88 min.
The Palio is sublimated warfare. This is how the proud city quarters, each delegating a horse with jockey to defend their honor, experience the famous annual horse races in the large square of Siena, Italy, … but the last triumph dates back to 1979.
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| 12 pm |
Midnight Surprise Film
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CINEPLEX GARDEN CITY
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| 2, 6 and 10 pm |
Abbas Kiarostami, A.B.C. Africa, Iran, 2001, 84 min.
Shot in and around Kampala, but screened here for the first time, one of the worlds most honored filmmakers captures the color and life of the city as he focuses on the faces of a thousand children, all orphans, whose parents died of aids. It records tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death.
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| 12 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Sawaroide, Nigeria, 1999, 105 min.
A classical satire on Nigerian politics, which condemns the military dictatorship in the story of a king who tries to stay on top by misusing his powers.
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| 4 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Agogo eewo, Nigeria, 2002, 104 min.
Kelani’s controversial follow up to Saworoide makes clear that after the fall of the military dictatorship not everything is in order in Nigeria. Corruption is still rampant.
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| 8 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Campus Queen, Nigeria, 2004, 104 min.
A free form African ‘school days’ where club rivalries assume national significance and students, when not staging song and dance extravagances, engage in real politik capers. Hip hop variations on traditional Yoruba songs, dance routines and a shifting moral axis.
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