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Film Screenings on Wednesday May 26, 2004 |
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 National Theater
Cineplex Garden City
Plaza Theater
Video Halls
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NATIONAL THEATER
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| 11 am |
Chen Jianjun, Herdsman China, 2001, 88 min
Follows a typical nomad family of eleven children while the family goes wherever there is grass for their beasts.
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| 12.30 pm |
Velu Viswanadhan, Ether/Aakaash, India, 2003, 102 min.
A journey discovering the fifth element, the most intangible of elements, that is inherently present in the visible: ether.
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| 2.15 pm |
Arjan Kaganof, Western 4.33, The Netherlands, 2002, 32 min.
A meditation on the impossible colonial dream: the attempt to ‘civilize’ Africa.
Geoffrey Ssenoga, The Silent Tribe, Uganda/Denmark, 2001,
30 min.
A study of European tribalism through attentive African eyes.
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| 3.30 |
Kenyan Focus
Jane Mbiti, Chepokawat, Kenya, 2004, 30 min.
This is the story of the valiant efforts of the Pokot people, especially the women, to put an end to the negative practice of cattle rustling.
Albert Wandago, Challenges of the Millennium, Kenya, 2000,
23 min.
The Millennium Development Goals represent an ambitious agenda but awareness of the goals is scarce particularly in Africa.
William Mudoga, Gacaca, 2003, 24 min. 47
This is a documentary on the unique semi-traditional court justice system that the people of Rwanda embraced in order to help them reduce the large numbers of genocide suspects being held in Rwandese prisons across the country.
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| 5 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Wanjiru Kinyanjui:
Say no to Poverty, Kenya, 2001, 15 min.
About the microfinance institutions in Kenya that are helping small businesses to grow.
Black in The Western World, Kenya, 1992, 23 min.
The tales of four Africans who are, for various reasons, preoccupied with issues of race.
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| 6 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Cesar Paes & Marie Clemence, Awara Soup, France, 1995, 71 m.
Awara Soup reveals that ‘creolization’ is not just an historical artifact but a dynamic, ongoing process, encompassing more and more of the world’s people. A subtle comment on the debates that take place in many European countries regarding immigration.
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| 8 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Jean-Marie Teno:
Head in the Clouds, Cameroon, 1994, 34 min.
This film deals with the issue of the everyday violence, resulting from the chaos with which Cameroon has been struggling since the colonial period. Today, the streets of Yaounde, the capital, are overflowing with garbage – a metaphor for Cameroon’s everyday mundane violence. Through the stories of the three characters, Head in the Clouds demonstrates how people find ways to resist.
Chief!, Cameroon 1999, 61 min.
A look into micro-politics of Cameroon scorning African respect for authority and pleading effectively for equal rights and education. In every village the camera finds situations in which human rights are overruled by the will of a chief.
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| 10 pm |
Rithy Panh, S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, France/Cambodia, 2002, 101 min
Between 1975 and 1977, more than seventeen thousand people were tortured, interrogated and executed at this prison in Vietnam. The torturers listen in guilty silence as the victims ask them to explain themselves.
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| Midnight |
Alain Resnais, Night and Fog, France, 1954, 31 min.
In this documentary on the holocaust, using highly unsettling, archival footage recorded during postwar liberation contrasted against the stillness of the modern-day landscape, Resnais creates a powerful, haunting chronicle of cruelty, dehumanization, and denial of personal responsibility.
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CINEPLEX GARDEN CITY
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| 12, 4 and 8 pm |
Abderrahmane Sissako, Waiting for Happiness, Mali/France, 2002, 95 min.
See Cineplex  May 25
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| 2, 6 and 10 pm |
Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Abouna, Chad/France, 2002, 81 min.
See Cineplex May 25
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PLAZA THEATER
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| 5 pm |
Translated into Luganda by Jingo
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.
Two Sudanese refugees are followed on an extraordinary journey from Kenya to America.
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| 8 pm |
Luganda translation by Jingo LIVE
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.
Fascinating documentary about the life of box hero Muhammed Ali and his fight with George Foreman, The Rumble in the Jungle in 1974 in Zaire (Congo).
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| 10.30 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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VIDEO HALLS
All films translated into Luganda by Jingo.
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| Ye Ye, Kabokia, 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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| Ashock, Kyebando, Kawempe 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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| Touch of Class, Luzira, Nakawa 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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