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Film Screenings on Saturday May 22, 2004 |
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 National Theater
Plaza Theater
Cineplex Garden City
Video Halls
Ndere Center
The Amakula Mobile Cinema
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NATIONAL THEATER
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| 11 am |
Ayfer Ergun, Against My Will, Pakistan/The Netherlands 2002,
50 min.
In Pakistan, many women who decide to leave abusive marriages are signing their own death warrants. Through the stories of Kubra and other women at Dastak, the film creates a portrait of one institution that is protecting Pakistani women, at least the women who can make it there.
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| 12 noon |
Eliane de Latour, Contes et comptes de la cour, France/Niger, 1992, 100 min.
In Niger, high-ranking men are polygamous and, according to Koranic tradition, lock their wives up in gynocia. For one month, De Latour lived with 4 women in one of these closed spaces, discovering how they manage to stay in touch with the outside world, primarily by trading.
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| 1.45 pm |
Ugandan Focus II
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Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng, A Lingering Pain. Woman and War in Uganda, Uganda, 2002, 40 min.
A grippingly sad account of Ugandan women war survivors, who despite the abductions, rape and torture at the hands of warring parties, speak out against the evil that degrades their humanity.
Jacqueline Rose Kawere, The Revolution of Women, Uganda, 2001, 60 min.
Traditionally women in Uganda have no right to self determination and in some occasions in order to be embraced in the community to be ready for marriage they are circumcised under medically questionable practices.
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| 3.30 pm |
Tribute to Jean Rouch
Jean Andre Fieschi, Mosso Mosso, Jean Rouch Comme Si, France, 1998, 73 min.
This encounter with the filmmaker proves the ‘let’s pretend’ principle, as he explains what has become, for him, a rule of the filmmaking game: ‘By pretending, you get closer to reality’. And while Jean Rouch pretends to be making a film called The Marvelous Cow, Jean-Andre Fieschi produces a moving tribute bursting with the filmmaker’s spirit.
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| 5 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Leonard Retel Helmrich, Flight to Heaven, The Netherlands/
Indonesia, 2003, 52 min
Follows a young boy who is enrolled in an Islamic boarding school, which changes his personality. He enters a world in which Osama Bin Laden and Jamal Islamiah are not known as terrorists, but as fighters of the infidel, and therefore idols.
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| 6.30 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Anne Aghion:
Gacaca: Living together again in Rwanda?, Rwanda, 2002, 55 m.
Filmmaker Anne Aghion documents the Gacaca, a form of popular justice composed of citizen-based tribunals. In open public forums, victims and their surviving relatives from the remote community of Ntongwe confront the accused in a search for truth and reconciliation, rather than resorting to the blind vengeance of the recent past.
In Rwanda we Say… The Family That Does Not Speak Dies, Rwanda, 2004, 54 min
Set in a rural Rwandan village just as the government is releasing close to sixteen thousand Hutu prisoners accused of horrific genocidal crimes. In a place where daily existence depends on cooperation, survivors of the 1994 attempt to eradicate the Tutsi minority must live side-by-side with their assailants.
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| 9.30 pm |
Moussa Sene Absa, Jef Jel, Senegal, 1999, 52 min
In Senegal, Baay Faals are a community half way between philosophy and religion. This film, through different stories, immerses us little by little in this movement, expressed by the axiom ‘Jef Jel’ meaning ‘work and take’.
John Appel, Senegal Sur Place, The Netherlands, 2002, 50 min.
In October 2002 was the 5th edition of the Tour de Senegal, a cyclist tour around Senegal for African and European teams. This is not a story of the race itself, not a film about winners and losers but about a Western spectacle in an African country.
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| 11.15 pm |
Michael Moore, Bowling for Columbine, USA, 2002, 119 min
A powerful and thought provoking commentary on America’s culture of violence and fear by one of its most popular and infamous critics.
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PLAZA THEATER
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| 4 pm |
Leon Gast, When We Were Kings, USA, 1996, 84 min.
A fascinating documentary about boxing hero Mohammed Ali’s fight with George Foreman, The Rumble in the Jungle, in DRC Congo in 1974.
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| 5.45 pm |
Marc Isaacs, Lift England, 2001, 24 min.
Filmed in a lift in a London tower block this film captures the whole of British multicultural society in a microcosm.
Erik Gandini, Surplus, Terrorized into being Consumers, Sweden, 2003, 52 min.
A video clip-like montage that speaks out against capitalistic consumerism and its methods of advertising, while using the same brain washing techniques as a television advert.
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| 7.30 pm |
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.
Megan Mylan & Jon Shenk, Lost boys of Sudan, Kenya/USA, 2003, 87 min.
Two Sudanese refugees are followed on an extraordinary journey from Kenya to America.
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| 9.30 pm |
Barbet Schroeder, General Idi Amin Dada, France, 1974, 100 min.
Apart from the opening footage of a chilling state-sanctioned execution, Schroeder lets the schizophrenic portrait of Idi Amin stand on its own: in that he gave the leader full control over the proceedings (what else could he do?) he simply gave him enough rope to hang himself. What remains is a devastating portrait of the madness of power.
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| 11.30 pm |
Stephane Tchalgadjieff & Jean Jacques Flori, Fela Kuti. Music is the weapon, France, 1982, 53 min.
The definitive documentary on the Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti, whose tumultuous musical and political career place him firmly in the annals of African history as the only figure to both define the Afro beat and run for president.
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CINEPLEX GARDEN CITY
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| 12, 4, 8 pm |
Abbas Kiarostami, A.B.C. Africa, Iran, 2001, 84 min
See Cineplex  May 21
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| 2 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Campus Queen, Nigeria, 2004, 104 min.
See Cineplex May 21
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| 6 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Sawaroide, Nigeria, 1999, 105 min
See Cineplex May 21
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| 10 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Agogo eewo, Nigeria, 2002, 104 min
See Cineplex May 21
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VIDEO HALLS
All films translated into Luganda by Jingo.
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| Touch of Class, Luzira, Nakawa division |
| 2 pm |
Opening speeches
Jimmy Adokwun plays live music with film
Both films translated into Luganda by Jingo LIVE
Anne Aghion presents her film
In Rwanda we Say… The Family That Does Not Speak Dies, Rwanda, 2004, 54 min
Set in a rural Rwandan village just as the government is releasing close to sixteen thousand Hutu prisoners accused of horrific genocidal crimes to return to their homes.
Megan Mylan & Jon Shenk, Lost Boys of Sudan, Kenya/USA, 2003, 87 min.
Follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.
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| Titanic, Nakulabye, Rubaga division |
| 2 pm |
Anne Aghion, In Rwanda we Say… The Family That Does Not Speak Dies, Rwanda, 2004, 54 min
Set in a rural Rwandan village just as the government is releasing close to sixteen thousand Hutu prisoners accused of horrific genocidal crimes to return to their homes.
Megan Mylan & Jon Shenk, Lost Boys of Sudan, Kenya/USA, 2003, 87 min.
Follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.
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| Gunners, Kisenyi, Central division |
| 2 pm |
Xoliswa Sithole & Renee Rossen, Shouting Silent, South Africa, 2002, 50 min.
The filmmaker journeys back home in search of other young women who like her have lost their mothers to HIV/AIDS and are now struggling to raise themselves (and, in many cases, their siblings) on their own.
Kim Longinotto, The Day I Will Never Forget, UK, 2002, 92 min.
A gripping documentary that examines the practice of female circumcision in Kenya and the pioneering African women who are bravely reversing the tradition.
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| Model Entertainment Centre, Ggaba, Makindye division |
| 2 pm |
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.
Leon Gast, When We Were Kings, USA, 1996, 84 min.
A fascinating documentary about boxing hero Mohammed Ali’s fight with George Foreman, The Rumble in the Jungle, in DRC Congo in 1974.
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| NDERE CENTER |
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From noon till midnight films are reprised in the auditorium at the Ndere Center in Nintende. Amakula festival enthusiasts will have the opportunity to catch some of the films they missed and local Ndere Center regulars will have the chance to see some of the festival’s highlights.
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| THE AMAKULA MOBILE CINEMA |
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Amakula Kampala will manifest itself by surprise on the weekends when our mobile cinema will be on the prowl with selected festival films traveling to many locations throughout the city. It may be possible that Amakula Kampala may indeed reach your own doorstep! |
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