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Film Screenings on Tuesday May 25, 2004 |
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 National Theater
Cineplex Garden City
Video Halls
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NATIONAL THEATER
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| 11 am |
Patrice Barrat, Qu’avez-vous vu de Sarajevo?, France, 1999,
76 min.
This films attempts to question the relationship between you, the audience, and real-life characters through an unusual television experience; the production of a daily, two minute chronicle in a street in Sarajevo.
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| 12.30 pm |
Victor Kossakovsky, Belovy, Russia, 1993, 60 min.
A tragic and comical story that describes the daily life of a Russian family in the countryside.
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| 1.30 pm |
Erik Gandini, Sacrificio: Who betrayed Che Guevera, Sweden, 2001, 70 min
A new light is shed on who was behind the betrayal of Che Guevara.
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| 2.45 pm |
Raoul Peck, Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts On the Class Struggle, Haiti, 1992, 57 min.
Who said that the economy serves mankind? What is this world where one third of the population, in the rich countries, or more precisely the wealthiest two percent in these countries, control everything? An illumination of the devastating effects of capitalism on Haiti.
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| 4 pm |
Stephanie Black, Life and Debt, USA, 2001, 86 min.
An exploration in the economic and political fallout of globalization in Jamaica. In Jamaica’s case and in many countries around the world there is a need for capital after colonialism and the only way countries can get that it is by borrowing from the IMF, which has proved to be a deadly equation for the economic independence of these countries.
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| 6 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Hillie Molenaar & Joop van Wijk, The Daily Nation, The Netherlands, 1999, 70 min.
Filmed as though reading a newspaper, The Daily Nation joins editors, journalists, paper-folders and vendors from Kenya’s only independent source of information in their efforts to get the news out on the streets, offering the viewer a good idea of how Kenyan society works.
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| 7.30 pm |
Idrissou Mora Kapai, Si Gueriki, The Queen Mother, Benin, 2002 62 min.
The filmmaker returns to his native Benin and dwells for a time under the command of a matriarchal society.
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| 8.45 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Cesar Paes & Marie Clemence, …Angano. Tales from Madagascar, Madagascar/France, 1989, 64 min
In Madagascar, a country with an oral tradition, history is told in poetry. Scenes from everyday life, family customs and traditional festivals illustrate this film about the Madagascans’ beliefs.
Cesar Paes & Marie Clemence, Songs and Tears of Nature, Madagascar, 1992, 54 min
About man’s relationship with nature, from the point of view of the Saamis from the Arctic and Fulni-ôs from Brazil.
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| 11 pm |
Jiska Rickels, Days Under, The Netherlands, 2003, 24 min.
A beautiful depiction of one day in the life of the miners in a coal-mine in Germany.
Marc Singer, Dark Days, USA, 2000, 94 min.
The filmmaker spent two years living with the people who have made a home for themselves in the undergrounds of New York City.
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CINEPLEX GARDEN CITY
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| 12 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Sawaroide, Nigeria, 1999, 105 min.
See Cineplex  May 21
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| 2 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Agogo eewo, Nigeria, 2002, 104 min.
See Cineplex May 21
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| 4 pm |
Tunde Kelani, Campus Queen, 2004, Nigeria, 104 min.
See Cineplex May 21
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| 6 and 10 pm |
Abderrahmane Sissako, Waiting for Happiness, Mali/France, 2002, 95 min.
Seventeen year old Abdallah visits his native village before he sets off to Europe but feels estranged from the place.
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| 8 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Abouna, Chad/France, 2002, 81 min.
Shot in Chad this film tells the tale of two young boys who go in search of their absent father.
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VIDEO HALLS
All films translated into Luganda by Jingo.
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Kali Smart, Ntinda, Nakawa division
Model Entertainment Centre, Ggaba Makindye division
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| 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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| Titanic, Nakulabye, Rubaga 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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| Gunners, Kisenyi, Central 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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