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Film Screenings on Friday May 28, 2004 |
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 National Theater
Bat Valley Theater
Video Halls
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NATIONAL THEATER
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| 11 pm |
Ross McElwee, Bright Leaves, USA, 2003, 107 min.
A subjective, autobiographical meditation on the allure of cigarettes and their troubling legacy for the state of North Carolina. And it's about filmmaking - home movie, documentary, and fiction filmmaking - as the filmmaker fences with the legacy of an obscure Hollywood melodrama that is purportedly based on his great-grandfather's life.
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| 1 pm |
Jack Jansen, Safari, The Netherlands, 2001, 60 min
About the filmmakers remembrances of his youth when his father would show him films of his life and work in Kenya. Through the old shots Jansen weaves his story while he is visiting the Masai in Kenya.
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| 2.15 pm |
Naomi Kawase, Letters from a yellow cherry blossom, Japan, 1987, 65 min.
Nishii Kazuo, photography critic who was a driving force behind Japan’s photography world. Nishi asks the director Kawase to film him when he learns he has only a few months to live.. The exchange between the filmmaker and the film-object weaves a “memory of time shared” that continues to live on.
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| 3.30 pm |
Johan van der Keuken, The Long Holiday, The Netherlands, 2000, 142 min.
The last film of one of the foremost innovators of documentary film from The Netherlands, this film serves as a last will and testament of his passion for the cinema as a medium and messenger. While shooting this film around the world, he knows he doesn’t have long to live.
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| 6 pm |
Petna N. Katondolo, Off Scene (making a video clip), Uganda, 2003, 12 min.
Off scene is an expression of the realities behind our camera. The video has been conceived during the shooting of the clip video Tuwakumbuke in September 2003.
Baudoin Koenig, Keep Shooting, France, 2003, 57 min.
The story takes place between Ramallah and Jerusalem, concomitant with the second intifida, just before the state of siege went into effect. More then just ‘a making of’ this documentary reveals the Palestinian’s situation today.
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| 7.30 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Xoliswa Sithole, Dear Mother, South-Africa, 5 min.
About a 15 year old girl who lives in an orphanage after running away from home from her abusive step father following the death of her mother and younger brother due to HIV Aids.
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.
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| 9 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Manthia Diawara:
In Search of Africa, USA/Guinea, 1997, 26 min.
Diawara returns to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. Despite the years that have gone by, Diawara expects to be welcomed as an insider, and is shocked to discover that he is not.
Conakry Kas, USA/Guinea, 2004, 82 min.
In January 2003 Diawara visited Guinea’s capital Conakry to see what was left of the artists and intellectuals of the Guinean Cultural revolution; and find out how the citizens of Conakry were coping with globalization.
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| 11.30 pm |
Thomas Ciulei, Asta-E, Romania/Germany, 2001, 92 min.
Personal documentary about life, colourful, impoverished and eccentric, in the Romanian village of Sulinain the Danube Delta.
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BAT VALLEY THEATER
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| 5 pm |
Translated into Luganda by Jingo
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, England, 2002, 92 m.
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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| 8 pm |
Translated in Luganda by Jingo LIVE
Barbet Schroeder, General Idi Amin Dada, France, 1974, 100 min.
Apart from the opening footage of a chilling state-sanctioned execution, Schroeder lets the schizophrenic portrait of Idi Amin stand on its own: in that he gave the leader full control over the proceedings (what else could he do?) he simply gave him enough rope to hang himself. What remains is a devastating portrait of the madness of power.
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| 10 pm |
Thug Angel, Tupac Shakur, USA 2002, 90 min.
The stand out film among many about the life and times of the notorious hip hop legend Tupac Shakur
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VIDEO HALLS
All films translated into Luganda by Jingo.
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Gunners, Kisenyi, Central 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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| Kali Smart, Ntinda, Nakawa 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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| Titanic, Nakulabye, 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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