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Film Screenings | Friday September 16, 2005 |
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! All Screenings and Events are FREE of charge ! |
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Films highlighted in Yellow take part in the
Golden Impala Best Short African Film Competition. |
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| 9.00 am |
Krysztof Kieslowski, The Dekalogue 1-3 (Poland, 1988, 600 min)
A series of ten 1 hour films, each tells the story of modern day people, with modern day moral dilemmas that fall into the categories of the Ten Commandments.
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| 12.00 am |
Idrissou Mora Kpai, Arlit the second Paris (Benin, 2005, 78 min)
The director follows the aging Issa on his last trip back to Arlit, Niger to see his son and old friends, allowing us a window onto this last desert frontier town turned about by the shifting sands of politics and economy.
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| 1.30 pm |
Mozambique Focus I
Isabel Noronha, Well guarded dreams
(Mozambique, 2004, 30 min)
Who is the keeper of the dreams of those who allow us to dream?
Margarida Cardoso, Kuxa kanema: the birth of cinema
(Mozambique, 2003, 52 min)
‘Kuxa kanema’ tells the story of the rise and fall of the cinema in Mozambique over an 11-year period from the countries independence in 1975 until the death of first president Samora Machel in 1986.
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| 3.00 pm |
Rwanda Focus I
Eric Kabera, Keepers of Memory (Rwanda, 2004, 54 min)
This documentary is a poetically and dramatically exploration of the men and women who watch over the massacre sites of Rwanda, people who in effect have become custodians of the dead.
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| 4 .00 pm |
Sudanese Focus I
Emile Dinneen, A Journey to Dinka Land (2005, Sudan, 27 min)
In a country ravaged in war, the filmmaker goes in search for what is behind the stories of war, famine, disease, to the beauty of the peoples and their cultures.
Taghreed Elsanhouri, All about Darfur (Sudan/UK, 2005, 81 min)
Taking the situation in Darfur as its catalyst the film is the contemplative journey of the filmmaker to the land of her birth.
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| 6.00 pm |
Haji Ashiraf Simwogerere: Storytelling performance  More
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| 6.30 pm |
Uganda Focus I
Caroline Kamya, Dancing wizard (Uganda, 2004, 10 min)
Christopher Kato is known in Uganda as the Dancing Wizard.
Barbara Kigozi, Fo(u)nd Memories (Uganda/USA, 2003, 10 min)
A visual poem that explores the relationship between the filmmaker and her maternal grandparents during her childhood in Uganda.
Anna Nabulya and Lars Johansson, Survivors
(Uganda, 2004, 24 min)
About children living on the streets of Kampala and having to struggle daily to survive.
Lovinsa Kavuma, Kintu (Uganda/UK, 1999, 10 min)
This short docu-drama set in a pre-colonial rural Ugandan village is a visual poetic enlightenment of the ancient art form of bark cloth making.
Irene Mungai, Salongo’s gift (Uganda, 2004, 12 min)
About a father of twins called Salongo who comes back home with a very special gift. A school drama of the Makerere University Broadcasting class of 2004.
Steven Nyeko/Winnie Gamisha, Get up its time
(Uganda, 2005, 22 min)
Daudi, a 21 year old youth, gets to his routine work in a factory only to be told that he has no more job.
Vincho Nchogu, Fala (Uganda, 2005, 9 min)
A film about two neighbors who at first have a misunderstanding with each other but later on come to benefit from one another. It is a moral story derived from a Kisii saying.
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| 8.00 pm |
Kenyan Focus I
Christine Bala, Babu’s Babies (Kenya, 2003, 60 min)
Babu is an ordinary guy who wants to move up in life. Kobe, one of his workmates, gets him into stealing coffee from work, but on his first delivery, everything goes wrong. Instead of making money, he finds himself stuck with an abandoned baby.
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| 9.00 pm |
Presented by the filmmaker:
Willie Owusu, Broken monologues (Kenya, 2005, 27 min)
An experimental film about a relationship gone sour.
Willie Owusu, Two chics, one guy and a plate of chips
(Kenya, 2004, 15 min)
Experimental comedy about a man in a restaurant who imagines in his mind the conversation of 2 girls sitting opposite him.
Willie Owusu, Ordinary People (Kenya, 2005, 15 min)
A short experimental film about love lost and moving on.
Willie Owusu, Rapid eye movement (Kenya, 2004, 20 min)
This film deals with peer pressure amongst the youth presented in a non-linear series of events.
Willie Owusu, Epilogue (Kenya, 2004, 12 min)
About a writers suppression by the government, a relationship gone sour and immorality.
Aleks Kamau, Born Loosers (Kenya, 2005, 19 min)
Born Losers takes a comical look on how two young men take to robbing women by winning their hearts.
Vincent Mbaya, The Room (Kenya, 2004, 9 min)
About life on a university campus.
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| 10.45 pm |
Maria Jao Ganga, Hollow City (Angola, 2004, 90 min)
Orphaned by the civil war in Angola, 12 year-old N’dala is brought to the capital by a nun, but he escapes to explore the city Luanda.
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| 12.15 pm |
James Lee, The beautiful washing machine
(Malaysia, 2004, 113 min)
This is a surrealistic comedy in which a washing machine, together with a silent young woman, plays the leading role.
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| PLAZA THEATER |
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| 4.00 pm |
David Lynch, The straight story (USA, 1999, 110 min)
By sharing his life’s earned wisdom with simple stories, Alvin has a profound impact on the characters that color his pilgrimage.
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| 6.00 pm |
Damir Cucic, La strada (Croatia, 2004, 29 min)
Following one day in the life of this street, with all the different ways people communicate, walk and talk, and showing colorful city carnivals and processions, the director depicts the atmosphere of a famous ‘strada’.
Chris Marker, La jetee (France, 1962, 29 min)
Told almost entirely in film stills, the viewer is taken on the journey of a man who is traveling from the future back to his childhood to face a critical moment that, owing to the crucial twist of the story, could never have happened.
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| 7.00 pm |
Nick Broomfield, Biggie & Tupac (UK, 2002, 107 min)
The story of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. is one of the most famous stories of the 1990’s, while their murders remain the most mysteries in Hip Hop.
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| 9.00 pm |
Hype Williams, Belly (USA, 1998, 88 min)
This film attempts to fuse the bold visual elements of his music videos with a story that works out the contradictions inherent in the rap music message between living the life in revolt and crime and attempting to change society.
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| 10.30 pm |
Todd Solondz, Storytelling (USA, 2001, 84 min)
Two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present exploring issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation.
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| 12.00 pm |
Richard Linklater, Waking life (2003, USA, 96 min)
The dreams of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dream world.
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| 1.30 pm |
David Lynch, Mulholland Drive (USA, 2000, 140 min)
This film is set in a nightmare dream world, a narrative that starts out as one sort of story and really winds up as another story altogether.
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| GREEN ROOM (NATIONAL THEATER) |
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10.00 pm
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Between the films: Filmmakers trace a line of thought
Michel Leclerc, Approaching Alaina Resnais, discreet revolutionary (France, 1980, 59 min)
Andre S. Labarthe, Robert Bresson, Ni Vu Ni Connu
(France, 1963, 64 min)
Olivier Assayas, Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
(France, 1997, 97 min)
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2.00 pm
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Selections from Between the Lines: Films in the midst of writing
Joel Calmettes, Ahmadou Kourouma
(Ivory Coast/France, 2001, 25 min)
Anne Laine, Nadine Gordimer, A White African
(South Africa/France, 1999, 49 min)
Jean Pierre Limosin, Thomas Bernhard 1931-1989
(Algeria/France, 1998, 48 min)
Hugo Santiago, Maurice Blanchot (France, 1998, 57 min)
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5.00 pm
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Across the Color Line
Oscar Micheaux, Ten Minutes to Live (USA, 1932, 60 min)
With this film Oscar Micheaux started to explore the urban crime drama in his first experiments with sound.
Oscar Micheaux, Murder in Harlem (USA, 1936, 105 min)
Clarence Brooks stars in this film which is based on an actual incident known as the Stanfield Murder Case.
Oscar Micheaux, Underworld (USA, 1937, 80 min)
An exploration of the black gangster underworld with a young man who is a recent graduate of a black college who gets himself mixed up in Chicago’s crime world.
Arthur Leonard, The Devil’s Daughter (USA, 1939, 60 min)
A phony voodoo high priestess in Haiti clashes with her innocent half sister over their late father’s banana plantation.
Spencer Williams, Juke Joint (USA, 1946, 60 min)
About a pair of traveling actors who arrive in a small southern town.
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