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Film Screenings | Saturday September 17, 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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| NATIONAL THEATER
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| 9.00 am |
David Helft, Search for Water (France/Mali, 1993, 26 min)
Although the lakes have gradually dried up and villagers have to walk miles for water, they do not want to abandon their arid land.
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| 9.30 am |
Jean-Francois Naud, Gogonbili, de l’autre cote de la colline
(Burkina Faso, 1996, 65 min)
This film is the chronicle of a village attempting to break free of its painfull past and finally take its place in the wider world.
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| 10.30 am |
Kenya Focus II
Jinna wa Mutene, Eastlands Gold (Kenya, 2005, 15 min)
The Maono Cultural Group was created in the notorious and dangerous
neighborhood of Dondora in Eastern Nairobi.
Brenda Togo, Matilda Obwok, Lars Johansson,
Sex, Lies & Ignorance (Kenya, 2004, 25 min)
Shot in Kisumu it carries stories of young girls struggling to finish school, fit in and make something of their lives.
Brenda Togo, Mathilda Obwok, Lars Johansson, Gravedigger
(Kenya, 2004, 25 min)
A film about a locally but illegally distilled alcohol known as changaa.
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| 11.30 am |
Peter Chappell, Our friends at the Bank
(France/Uganda, 1998, 90 min)
During a period of a year the filmmaker filmed the initial meetings, strategic preparations and negotiations between the World Bank and Uganda.
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| 1.00 pm |
Apolline Traore, Under the Moon Light
(Burkina Faso, 2004, 90 min)
Nine years latter, Patrick and his daughter are back in the village where his daughter was born, to repair the water pump he installed. Then everything goes wrong.
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| 2.30 pm |
Mozambique Focus II
Lucinio Azevedo, The demining camp
(Mozambique, 2005, 60 min)
Their long periods far from their families, living all together in tents, and the fact that each day they risk their lives together, makes the deminers a special group of men.
Lucinio Azevedo, Night Stop (Mozambique, 2002, 52 min)
Chatting, arguing and hustling, prostitutes who work at a truck stop near the border reveal their individual stories of pregnancy, the search for a husband, unrequited love, violence and resignation.
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| 4.30 pm |
Congolese Focus II
Monique Mbeka Phoba, A bewitched life! (DRC, 2004, 52 min)
The director undertakes a journey back to her roots, guided by an 84-year old men accused to be a witch since his childhood.
Monique Mbeka Phoba, Anna from Benin
(DRC/Benin 2001, 52 min)
A portrait of an extraordinary 17th year old Beninese girl, Anna Teko, one of 31 children of her father and his five wives.
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| 6.30 pm |
Austin Bukenya: Storytelling performance  More
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| 7.00 pm |
Nicolas Provost, Exoticore (Belgium, 2004, 27 min)
A story about an immigrant from Burkina Faso and his attempts to integrate in Norwegian society.
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| 7.30 pm |
Introduction by the filmmaker:
Moustapha Alassane, Toula (Niger, 1973, 90 min)
After a severe draught finally water appears at the behest of Toula, the spirit of water. The chief of the village sacrifices his only daughter to Toula.
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| 9.00 pm |
Sanou Kolo Daniel, Tasuma (Burkina Faso, 2003, 85 min)
When Sogo is finally promised a pension he buys a mill for his village on credit. But the money fails to come and trouble is on the way.
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| 10.30 pm |
Daoud Aoulad Syad, Tarfaya (Morocco, 2004, 90 min)
Lhajja’s boarding house harbours all sorts of girls waiting indefinitely for their turn to leave to Spain. Waiting there in transit, their life is bound to the rhythm of random illegal departures.
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| 12.00 pm |
Moustapha Alassane, The Adventurer Comes Home
(Niger, 1965, 32 min)
A young student comes home from Europe with cowboy attributes in his suitcase and soon he and his friends start identifying themselves with the Western heroes from the big screen.
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| 12.30 pm |
Sergio Leone, Once upon a time in the west
(USA, 1968, 159 min)
This was the peak moment for Sergio Leone who had finally made a film where the entire story is related through stylistic devices that one could only call operatic a western.
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| PLAZA THEATER |
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| 9.00 am |
Sholeh Hejazi, Camino El Andar (Spain, 2003, 83 min)
A philosophical and poetic document about the views and changes of the human race.
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A day of Simple Stories
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| 10.30 am |
Robert Bresson, Au Hasard, Balthasar (France, 1966, 91 min)
The straightforward chronicle of a donkey whose sufferings ambiguously reflect against the desolate human world is depicted against the travails of his owners and the random life around him.
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| 12.00 am |
Zacharias Kunuk, Atanarjuat, The fast runner
(Canada, 2000, 161 min)
A genuine Inuit cinema, this film is a long held ambition to translate an oral inuit legend into an epic film which retains the elegant simplicity of the original story.
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| 3.00 pm |
Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov, Luna papa (Tajikistan, 1999, 107 min)
An enchanting fairy tale which is on the one hand as simple as can be and on the other so teeming with crisscrossing colors, actions, crazy characters and mad energy you might fail to notice it.
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An Evening of Twisted Tales
(featuring the writing of Raul Ruiz and Charlie Kaufmann)
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| 5.00 pm |
Raul Ruiz, Dias de campo (Chile, 2004, 89 min)
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don’t know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
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| 6.30 pm |
Raul Ruiz, Three Lives and Just One Death
(France, 1996, 123 min)
Stars the last true movie star, Marcello Mastrianni who plays a man which shares four names and four personalities and is the link between four different, yet similar, stories involving love, lust, crime, and time.
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| 8.30 pm |
Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich (USA, 1999, 110 min)
A puppeteer discovers a door in his office that allows him to enter the mind and life of the famous actor John Malkovich for 15 minutes.
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| 10.15 pm |
Spike Jonze, Adaptation (USA, 2002, 85 min)
A confused L.A. screenwriter is overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald.
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| 11.45 pm |
Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind
(USA, 2004, 108 min)
The brain that is being tampered with belongs to the nominal hero played by rubber faced comedy king Jim Carrey, who is undergoing some fairly peculiar procedures to have his memory erased.
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| GREEN ROOM (NATIONAL THEATER) |
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REGIONAL FOCUS (Ethiopia/Eritrea/Sudan)
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| 4.00 pm |
Daniel Fisihatseion, Kibre-Nek (Ethiopia, 2002, 90 min)
No matter how beautiful or smart she is, the fact that her father suffers from lepra stigmatizes her and her family in the eyes of her surroundings.
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| 6.00 pm |
Tenesghen Zehaieand, Esren Kahsai Minister
(Eritrea, 2001, 105 min)
An unusual project in many respects not the least of which is the choice to utilize an archaic variation of Tegrinia spoken in the film which sets the writing of master playwright Esren Kahsai apart from all of his compatriots.
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| 8.00 pm |
Gadalla Gubara, Tagog (Sudan, 1982)
Tagog is a true love story that happened a hundred years back in the eastern part of the Sudan.
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| 10.00 pm |
Retrospective
Ibrahim Shaddad, A Camel (Sudan, 1981, 15 min)
The toils and dreams of a camel. The first film of one of the few true poets of Sudanese cinema.
Ibrahim Shaddad, The rope (Sudan, 1987, 32 min)
Two men search for safety during the Turkish punishment expedition of 1820
Ibrahim Shaddad, Insan (Sudan, 1995, 23 min)
The tragic end of a cattleman who takes refuge in the city, this film is a brilliant study in film form and remarkably daring in its unique assembly of images and repetitions.
Ibrahim Shaddad, Ottawa (Sudan, 2002, 10 min)
A refugee is disillusioned with his country of refuge. A recent video work made in Canada.
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