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Film Screenings on Sunday May 23, 2004 |
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 National Theater
Cineplex Garden City
Video Halls
Ndere Center
The Amakula Mobile Cinema
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NATIONAL THEATER
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| 11 am |
Raymond Depardon, Tibesti Too, France/Chad, 1976, 40 min.
In Chad’s Tibesti mountains, the almost totally isolated Toubou people live in complete freedom. Depardon paid them tribute with this film which is somewhere between cinema and photography.
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| 12 noon |
Raymond Depardon Africa, How Are You with Pain?, France, 1996, 165 min.
Depardon introduces us to the Africa he loves in the form of a cinematographic journal he filmed alone to compare his preconceived ideas with the reality he found on a journey.
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| 3 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Sam Kauffmann, Living with Slim, Uganda 2004, 28:30 min.
In many African countries, HIV/AIDS is called “Slim.” In this film seven Ugandan children, ranging in age from 6 to 17 years old, talk about what it’s like to be HIV positive.
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| 3.45 pm |
Ugandan Focus Part III
Robby Wodomal Presents:
People Matter (Uganda, basic rights), Uganda, 1987, 27 min.
Shot in the year of transition from Obote to Museveni, this film looks at the violations of human rights in Uganda from 1962 to 1986 through the eyes of Joan Kakwenzire, at the time part of the commission investigating human rights issues, and the journalist James Namakagjo
Living with the War, Uganda, 2002, 15 min.
The dilemma of Gulu school children who are forced to spend the nights in the cities streets as fear of abductions prevent them from returning to their villages after school
On their Own, Uganda, 1997, 8 min.
About children who have to take care of each other after losing their parents through Aids
Rays of Hope, Uganda 2001, 18 min.
About women’s struggle for orphans in Uganda in the creation of the Children’s Village
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
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| 5.15 pm |
Kim Longinotto, The Day I Will Never Forget, UK, 2002, 92 min.
A gripping documentary that examines the practice of female genital mutilation in Kenya and the pioneering African women who are bravely reversing the tradition.
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| 7 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Hillie Molenaar and Joop van Wijk:
Cross Roads, The Netherlands/Tanzania/Rwanda, 1997, 55 min.
This film is placed at an intersection of roads from Uganda to Tanzania and from Kenya via Rwanda to Zaire, where some half a million refugees from Tutsi-Hutu violence streamed in to create a boom town called Benaco.
Isingiro Hospital, The Netherlands/Tanzania, 1993, 40 min.
Set on the border of Tanzania and Uganda as Rwandan refugees are fleeing through, the daily events in a besieged and understaffed hospital are experienced.
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| 9 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
John Akomfrah, Testament UK, 1988, 80 min.
An African minister flees to England when her government is overthrown by a military coup. Twenty years after the event she returns to understand what went wrong. A poetic portrait of exile and dispossession.
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| 10.30 pm |
Ken Fero, Injustice UK, 2001, 98 min
The story of the struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody in the UK.
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CINEPLEX GARDEN CITY
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| 12 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Agogo eewo, Nigeria, 2002, 104 min
See Cineplex  May 21
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| 2, 6 pm |
Abbas Kiarostami, A.B.C. Africa, Iran, 2001, 84 min.
See Cineplex May 21
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| 4 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Steven Nyeko, Full of Energy, 2004, Uganda, 62 min.
A story made in Kampala about a village woman who walks out on her marriage with a philandering husband. She retreats to her brother’s house to find herself in another steamy relationship. One night her brother is murdered….
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| 8 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Campus Queen, 2004, Nigeria, 104 min.
See Cineplex May 21
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| 10 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Sawaroide, Nigeria, 1999, 105 min.
See Cineplex May 21
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VIDEO HALLS
All films translated into Luganda by Jingo.
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| Ashock, Kyebando, Kawempe 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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| Touch of Class, Luzira, Nakawa division |
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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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| Ye Ye, Kabokia, Rubaga division |
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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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