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Film Screenings on Saturday May 29, 2004 |
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 National Theater
Plaza Theater
Video Halls
Ndere Center
The Amakula Mobile Cinema
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NATIONAL THEATER
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| 10 pm |
Kiko Goifman, 33, Brazil, 2003, 78 min.
Filmed in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte in 2002, Kiko Goifman, at the age of 33 decides to look for his biological mother interviewing detectives, members of his family, a heart-stopping fortune-teller and the doctor who negotiated his adoption 33 years ago.
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| 11.30 pm |
Jean-Marie Teno, Alex’s Wedding, Cameroon, 2003, 45 min.
‘The Marriage of Alex’ is a chronicle of an afternoon during which three people’s lives change dramatically when Alex goes to bring home his second wife.
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| 12.30 pm |
Joana Hadjitomas & Khalil Joreige, The Lost Film, France/Lebanon, 2003, 42 min.
The filmmakers reflect on their relationship with Yemen and its people, and on a work that faded into oblivion for everybody but themselves. A personal quest that centers on the role of the image and on the status of filmmakers in this part of the world.
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| 13.30 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Manthia Diawara and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Sembene: The making of African Cinema, USA/Mali, 1994, 60 min
Follows the legendary Senagalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane from the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso back to the streets of Dakar and his Galle Ceddo home at Yoff. Revisiting several locations of his films, Sembene Ousmane reminisces about his career and discusses his craft.
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| 3 pm |
Lodewijk Crijns:
Kutzooi, The Netherlands, 1995, 34 min.
A fake documentary about a group of restless youth roaming through the streets of a town in The Netherlands.
Lap Rouge, The Netherlands, 1996, 43 min.
Two eccentric brothers live in a southern French hamlet with their aged, tyrannical mother. In his occasionally bizarre portrait, Crijns, who calls himself a master forger, does not shrink from melodrama and explores the boundaries of shameless peeping, before reality TV cropped up.
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| 4.30 pm |
Szymon Zaleski, Marilyn Watelet, Fin de Siglo, Belgium, 1994,
54 min.
Film shot in a large warehouse in the Cuban capital Havana. In its shabbiness and remarkable operation system the store reflects the deplorable state Cuban society is in.
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| 5.30 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Jean Marie Teno, A Trip to the Country, 2000, 75 min.
The filmmaker retraces the trip he took annually as a child during the school holidays from Yaounde, the big city, to Bandjoun, the village to understand the hopes, regrets and frustrations of the people he encounters. A Trip to the Country is a personal reflection on our obsession with modernity, our desire to conform to a certain model of “development.”
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| 7.30 pm |
South-African Spectrum – 10th Anniversary Celebration
Nodi Murphy, director of Encounters South African International Documentary Festival presents a personal selection of South-African shorts. Since the birth of democracy 10 years ago filmmaking, particularly documentary filmmaking, has come a long way in South Africa. There has been the recognition that it is time to tell our own stories, to create a 'family album' of pictures that reflect our experience of ourselves. Encounters presents here a very small selection but one that reflects the diversity of experience, opinion and artistic merit that flourishes in contemporary South-Africa.
Karin Slater, The meaning of the buffalo, South Africa, 2004,
60 min.
The filmmaker explores a community reluctant to reveal the legends, folklore and poems they use to praise the animal to which their identity remains inextricably bound.
Portia Rankoane, A Red Ribbon Around My House, South Africa/Finland, 2001, 26 min.
A brutally honest, intimate, sometimes touchingly funny look at how AIDS has affected a family and the relationship between mother and daughter.
Craig Matthew & Joëlle Chesselet, Ochre & Water: Himba Chronicles from the land of Kaoko, South Africa, 2001, 53 min.
Arresting images explore a landscape that will disappear when the Namibian government develops a 450-megawatt hydroelectric dam.
Orlando Mesquita, The ball, Mozambique, 2003, 5 min.
An amusing look at condom use in Mozambique, where around twenty million condoms are distributed annually.
Eddie Edwards, Gotta give, South Africa, 2003, 5 min.
A music video featuring Moodphase5ive and Godessa with a message for young women: take control and use your power to negotiate your relationships.
Pule Diphare, JG Strijdom is Very Very Dead, South Africa, 1999, 26min.
This film of paradoxes captures the changing complexion of a city released from the trappings of a truly fallen idol.
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| 11 pm |
Lee Hirsch, Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony, South Africa, 2003, 88 min.
A celebration of music in the struggle, ‘Amandla!’ looks at how changes in the lyrics, rhythms and melodies of liberation songs reflected the radicalization of black resistance in response to ever harsher crackdowns by the Apartheid state.
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PLAZA THEATER
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| 3.30 pm |
Thierry Michel, Mobutu, King of Zaire, Belgium, 1999, 135 min.
The history of a unique destiny build from ambition and megalomania, betrayal and cowardice, the history of a personage (Mobutu Sese Seko) worthy of the great Shakespearian tragedies.
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| 6 pm |
Peter Watkin, Culloden, UK, 1964, 75 min.
With Culloden Watkins established an innovative style combining drama acted out by ‘real people’ with newsreel techniques. A modern television crew, completely anachronistic, follows the build-up, the fighting of, and the brutal aftermath to the 1746 Battle of Culloden.
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| 7.30 pm |
Jean Painlevé, The Love Life of the Octopus, France, 1965, 12 min; Acera or the Witches Dance, France, 1972, 12 min
A portrait of sea horses, vampire bats, and fan worms as endowed with human traits - the erotic, the comical, and the savage.
Mark Lewis, Cane Toads – An unnatural history, Australia, 1988, 47 min.
One of the strangest nature documentaries of all time, this Australian production finds a wealth of bizarre humor in that country’s disastrous infestation of cane toads. Mixing expert testimony with hilarious anecdotes and interviews, these creatures are loved by some, hated by others, and quickly overrunning the countryside.
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| 9 pm |
Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North, USA, 1922, 79 min.
With live musical accompanied by members of the Ndere Troupe
Visit to the sub-Arctic eastern coast of Hudson Bay (Canada) where the Eskimo communities are filmed as a community that know no time and is a noble race that exists in isolation from outside influences.
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| 10.30 pm |
Godfrey Reggio, Koyaanisquatsi, USA, 1983, 83 min.
‘Koyaanisquatsi’, a Hopi Indian word meaning ‘life out of balance’, is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds - urban life and technology versus the environment. With a musical score composed by Philip Glass.
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| 12 pm |
Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, Italy/Algeria, 1965,
116 min.
The Battle of Algiers effectively recreates the pivotal events that took place in the city of Algiers, where, in an attempt to end French Colonialism, the Algerian National Liberation Form (FLN) began a war of liberation, using terrorism.
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VIDEO HALLS
(All films translated into Luganda by Jingo)
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| Touch of Class, Luzira, Nakawa 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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| Ye Ye, Kabokia, Rubaga 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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| Ashock, Kyebando, 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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| NDERE CENTER |
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From noon till midnight films are reprised in the auditorium at the Ndere Center in Nintende. Amakula festival enthusiasts will have the opportunity to catch some of the films they missed and local Ndere Center regulars will have the chance to see some of the festival’s highlights.
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| THE AMAKULA MOBILE CINEMA |
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Amakula Kampala will manifest itself by surprise on the weekends when our mobile cinema will be on the prowl with selected festival films traveling to many locations throughout the city. It may be possible that Amakula Kampala may indeed reach your own doorstep! |
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