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Film Screenings on Thursday May 27, 2004 |
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 National Theater
Cineplex Garden City
Video Halls
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NATIONAL THEATER
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| 11 pm |
Belkacem Hadjadj, A Female cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbes, Algeria, 2000, 52 min.
After the death of her husband, Soumicha, a mother of three children, has to earn a living and becomes the only woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbes, Algeria.
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| 12 noon |
Philippe Freling, Agnès Varda, France, 1999, 13 min.
Agnès Varda chooses to show us her ‘bedside images’ that have inspired her films.
Agnès Varda, The gleaners and I, France, 2001, 82 min.
The ‘Grande Dame of the French New Wave’ has made one of the most acclaimed documentaries of 2001 in which Varda trains her ever-seeking eye on ‘gleaners’, those who pick at already- harvested fields for the odd potato or turnip, who insist on finding a use for what society has determined it has no use for.
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| 1.45 pm |
Anand Patwardhan, War and Peace, India, 2002, 180 min
Explores the military course that respective Indian and Pakistani governments took after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.
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| 5 pm |
Congolese Focus
The Filmmakers Present:
Modogo Mutebwi, L’eau c’est la vie, Congo 10 min.
Esperance Sikuli, Mwana, Congo min. 6 min.
Tshombe Zola, Chukugu, Congo, 9 min.
Sekombi Katondolo, Le volcan, Congo 6 min.
Inonse Binwa, Ngule, Congo 15 min.
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| 6 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Jean-Marie Teno, Africa, Ill Fleece You, Cameroon/France, 1992, 88 min
A critical look at his country and the cultural genocide that resulted from Cameroonians collaborating with or resisting the European settlers.
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| 8 pm |
The Lumiere Brothers, Workers Leaving the Factory and others, France, 1895-1898
The first films ever made, each one minute in length, by the inventors of the cinematograph, August and Louis Lumiere. The films will be accompanied with live music.
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| 9.15 pm |
Silale “insomnie”, multimedia dance and video performance by Y!Dance, 25 min.
Y!Dance (why dance) is a group of dancers of Yole !Africa, a cultural centrum for exchanges between dancers, choreographers, artists and theatermakers, developing and sharing experiences between different cultural disciplines. Silale is a piece for 2 dancers and a videographer on insomnia, fusing dance with live video projection. Choreography by Petna Ndaliko Katondolo.
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| 10 pm |
Heddy Honigmann, Dame la Mano, The Netherlands, 2003, 120 m.
On Sunday nights ‘La Esquina Habanera’ in New Jersey USA transforms into a lively dance club where exiled Cubans from miles around dance the authentic rumba.
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CINEPLEX GARDEN CITY
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| 12, 4 and 8 pm |
Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Abouna, Chad/France, 2002, 81 min.
See Cineplex  May 25
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| 2, 6 and 10 pm |
Abderrahmane Sissako, Waiting for Happiness, Mali/France, 2002, 95 min.
See Cineplex May 25
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VIDEO HALLS
All films translated into Luganda by Jingo.
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| Basesa, Bwaise, 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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| Down Town, Kamwokya, Central 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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| New Waves, Kibirango, Makindye 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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