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Film Screenings on Sunday May 30, 2004 |
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 National Theater
Video Halls
Ndere Center
The Amakula Mobile Cinema
Plaza Theater | Closing Night
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NATIONAL THEATER
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| 11 pm |
Victor Kossakovsky, Tishe!, Russia, 2002, 80 min.
The filmmaker filmed the street where he lives from the window of his apartment during a year of endless repairs for the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the city, the result of which he describes as a ‘documentary comedy’.
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| 12.30 pm |
Alexander Sokurov, Russian Elegy, Russia, 1992, 68 min.
The final death throes of a human body that is not a body but a pair of hands and a voice escaping from a throat as it loses its warmth… the prelude and refrain of a dense tapestry of episodes and sounds, where time has no beginning and no end.
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| 1.45 pm |
Abderrahmane Sissako, Rostov-Luanda, Mali/France, 1997,
60 min.
The search for a friend of the past leads to an encounter with present-day Angola. A personal retrospective traces the great lines of Africa’s recent history.
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| 3 pm |
Samba Felix NDiaye:
Tresors des poubelles series, Senegal, 1989
Aqua, Les Chutes d’or de Ngalam, Senegal, 1989, 13 min
Diplomates a la Tomate, Senegal, 1989, 13 min
Les Malles, Senegal, 1989, 13 min
Teug ou chaudronnerie d’art, Senegal, 1989, 13 min
Trésors des Poubelles’ leaves us in awe by showing how craftsmen can create art using very simple materials.
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| 4.00 pm |
Uganda Focus V
Ugandan filmmakers present.
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| 5.00 pm |
Zacharias Kunuk, Gathering Place, Canada, 1989, 58 min.
Four families build a Qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to celebrate the coming of spring with games, singing and drum dancing. A young man seeks a wife. The girl’s father says no, but her mother says yes....
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| 6.30 pm |
Abderrahmane Sissako, Life on Earth, Mali/France, 1998, 62 min.
In Sokolo, Mali, there are no celebrations, no grand schemes, no Y2K (‘millennium bug’) panics, no grandiose summations of national destiny. For an outside viewer it’s hard to see how life is affected at all by the turn of the calendar.
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| 7.45 pm |
Craig and Daman Foster, Cosmic Africa, South-Africa, 2003,
75 min.
This film seeks to explore Africa’s ties with the oldest science, astronomy. It follows the adventures of a young local astronomer on a journey that stretches from Namibia to the coastline and steamy jungles of Ghana across to the Cliffside dwellings of the Dogon in Mali.
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| 9 pm |
Andrej Ujica, Out of the Present, Russia, 1995, 92 min.
For the first time in history a 35mm camera embarked on a space flight; from earth cameraman Vadim Joesov directed the takes of a 92 minute space-walk, exactly the time the space station takes to circle the earth. Timeless, surreal and fascinating.
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| 10.30 pm |
Dana Ranga, Story, Rumania, 2003, 87 min.
Before he became an astronaut, Story Musgrave was a mathematician, a chemist at Kodak, a trauma surgeon and a pilot, an experimental parachutist and later a poet and holder of a degree in literature. Never before has an astronaut spoken up about the adventures and tragedies of his life, about the gains and experiences of man in space.
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VIDEO HALLS
All films translated into Luganda by Jingo.
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| New Waves, Kibirango, Makindye 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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| Basesa, Bwaise, Kawempe 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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Kali Smart, Ntinda, Nakawa division
Down Town, Kamwokya, Central division
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| 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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PLAZA THEATER
Closing Night
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| 3.30 pm |
Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, France, 1983, 100 min.
The film is made up of a great many images, principally shot in Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Iceland. We view a number of ceremonies in Japan, visits by pet owners to a temple devoted to the worship of cats, tributes to the goddess of broken dolls etc.
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| 5.15 pm |
Godfrey Reggio, Powaqqatsi, USA, 1988, 96 min
The second part of the Quatsi trilogy conveys a humanist philosophy about the earth, the encroachment of technology on nature and ancient cultures, and the splendor that disappears as a result. The film focuses on the modern way of life and the concept of the Global Village, entwining the distinctive textures of ancient and Third World cultures.
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| 7 pm |
Tribute to Stan Brakhage
with live musical accompanied by Jimmy Adokwun
Window, Water, Baby, Moving and various other shorts, USA, 1959-2000
Dean of American Experimental Filmmakers, Stan Brakhage, passed away last year and we honor his memory with this memorial programme with first time ever African musical accompaniment by the dynamic Jimmy Adokwun. Some of the films in this selection were made without the use of a camera. Some have been painted by hand while others were made by printing the actual wings of insects onto film.
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| 8 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker
Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Bye Bye Africa, Chad/France, 1999,
86 min.
Using documentary technique, structuring a film within the film, Haroun renders a picture of Chad that is part documentary part homecoming narrative.
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| 10 pm |
Dziga Vertov, Man with the Movie Camera, Russia, 1929, 68 min
With live musical accompanied by Percussion Discussion Africa
See Plaza Theater  May 20
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