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Film Screenings on Monday May 24, 2004 |
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 National Theater
Cineplex Garden City
Video Halls
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NATIONAL THEATER
Music Marathon
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| 11 am |
Jack Jansen, Fairuz – We loved each other so much, The Netherlands/Lebanon, 2003, 80 min.
Portrays the love of diverse Beirut habitants for this singing diva who, during the Lebanese civil war, was loved by all fighting parties.
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| 12.30 pm |
Introduced by the filmmaker
John Akomfrah, The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, UK, 1999, 65 min.
Armstrong was an innovator – the first great Jazz soloist, a band leader, pop star, actor and cultural ambassador, one of the true icons of the 20th century.
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| 1.45 pm |
Robert Drew, On the Road with Duke Ellington, USA, 1974,
60 min.
This film serves as perhaps the most revealing and intimate portrait of the American jazz legend ever recorded.
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| 3 pm |
Marc Huraux, Une Visit a Ali Farka Touré, France/Mali, 2000,
52 min.
Atmospheric black and white portrait of remarkable Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure, upon his return to his birth place after a successful world tour.
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| 4 pm |
Ugandan Focus IV
Music video clips from the region by Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Donald Mugisha, Ali Bakka, Kharl Ed Olega and many others
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| 4.30 |
William Mudoga, Movin 'n' Groovin In East Africa, Kenya, 2004,
26 min. 31
This is a nostalgic journey back to the roots of the East African music and the factors that influenced the growth of this music including the major one - politics.
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| 5 pm |
Robert Mugge, Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, USA, 1980, 60 min
Sun Ra, among the first person of any musical genre to use electronic keyboards, and titan of the jazz avantgarde performs tunes including ‘Astro Black’, ‘Calling Planet Earth’, ‘Organ Solo’, ‘We Travel the Spaceways’, ‘Ankh’, and other seriocomic chants and jingles.
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| 6 pm |
John Akomfrah talks on Afro-Futurism
John Akomfrah, The Last Angel of History, UK, 1995, 45 min
A sci fi drama-documentary on Afro-futurism and black unpopular culture. The film charts a new interface, striking up connections and dialogues between diverse black interstellar parties, from Sun Ra to Nichelle Nichols, George Clinton to Lee Perry, a Guy called Gerald, Goldie and Underground Resistance.
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| 7.30 pm |
Introduced by the filmmaker
Cesar Paes & Marie Clemence, Saudade do Futuro, Brazil, 2000, 98 min.
About the music of the ‘Nordestinos’, people who have moved from Brazil’s dry and poor rural north to the southern city of São Paulo.
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| 9.30 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
John Akomfrah, Urban Soul, UK, 2004, 90 min
‘Urban Soul’ is the definitive story of modern R&B and its meteoric rise in global popularity. Looking at superstars such as Missy Elliot, Beyoncé Knowles, R Kelly and Boyz II Men, the programme traces the way in which R&B crossed over into rap and pop to become a multi- billion-dollar industry with an unprecedented impact on mainstream music.
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| 11 pm |
Don McGlynn, The Howling Wolf Story, USA, 2003, 87 min.
A seamless trip back in time and location to this master of blues, with much use of some excellent black-and-white archival film and other clips that have the immediacy of home movies.
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CINEPLEX GARDEN CITY
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| 12 noon and 8 pm |
Steven Nyeko, Full of Energy, 2004, Uganda, 62 min.
See Cineplex  May 23
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| 2 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Sawaroide, Nigeria, 1999, 105 min.
See Cineplex May 21
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| 4 pm |
Abbas Kiarostami, A.B.C. Africa, Iran, 2001, 84 min.
See Cineplex May 21
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| 6 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Agogo eewo, Nigeria, 2002, 104 min.
See Cineplex May 21
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| 10 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Campus Queen, 2004, Nigeria, 104 min.
See Cineplex May 21
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VIDEO HALLS
All films translated into Luganda by Jingo.
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| Down Town, Kamwokya, Central 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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| New Waves, Kibirango, Makindye 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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| Basesa, Bwaise, Kawempe 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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