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Film Screenings | Sunday September 18, 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 |
Philip de Pierpont, Maisha ni karate, life is a card game
(Belgium, 2003, 70 min)
The filmmaker filmed 6 children living in the streets of Burundi and asks them whether he might come back and film the turning points of their lives as teenagers.
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| 10.15 am |
Laurent Chevalier, Circus Baobab
(France/Guinea, 2000, 100 min)
Taking his inspiration from an ancient legend which tells how men stole the drum from monkeys, this marvelous spectacle mixes techniques from the new circus with traditional dances and music from Guinea.
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| 12.00 am |
Arthur Howes, Nuba Conversations (Sudan/UK, 1999, 55 min)
Ten years after shooting Kafi’s story, the filmmaker reenters the Sudan clandestinely to find out what had happened to the Nuba of Torogi.
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| 1.00 pm |
Uganda Focus II
Petna Nadaliko Katondolo, Threatened fate
(Uganda, 2005, 15 min)
The madness of capitalism is wiping out human conscience.
Petna Nadaliko Katondolo, Minutes utiles (Uganda, 2005, 26 min)
Searching for cinema in Goma in the East of DR Congo, the film director meets young artists struggling to find their way in the film industry.
Petna Nadaliko Katondolo, Lamokowang (Uganda, 2004, 13 min)
With the Watmon Cultural Group, a new path for young African cinema, a mixture of fiction and documentary, is being opened up.
Petna Nadaliko Katondolo, Twaomba amani
(Uganda, 2005, 21 min)
When his elder sister initiated a synergy of women in the eastern part of Congo against sexual abuse, the director decided to make a film based on this subject.
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| 2.30 pm |
Norman Maake, Soldiers of the rock (South Africa, 2003, 94 min)
The story of a young generation of South Africans who were shaped not so much by the apartheid system as by its aftermath and its legacy.
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| 4.00 pm |
Marcel Camus, Black Orpheus (Brasil, 1958, 107 min)
A captivating musical conceit, ‘Black Orpheus’ recreates the Orpheus-Eurydice legend using the Rio Carnival as the background.
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| 6.00 pm |
Herman Sewanyana and Michael Musoke:
Storytelling performance  More
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| 6.30 pm |
Presented by the filmmaker:
Moustapha Alassane, Aoure (Niger, 1962, 21 min)
Considered to be the first independent African film, it follows events around a marriage ceremony of the Djerma people.
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| 7.00 pm |
Raoul Peck, Sometimes in April (Haiti, 2004, 140 min)
This film depicts the tragic one hundred days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide shot on location in Rwanda. It tells the story of two Aprils, 1994 and 2004, linked by the experiences of Augustin, a Hutu Army officer.
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| 9.30 pm |
Djibril Diop Mambety, Hyenas (Mali, 1992, 110 min)
An African version of Swiss writer Fredrich Durrenmatt’s enduring drama ‘The Visit’ tells an indigenous African story.
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| 11.30 pm |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fear eats the soul
(Germany, 1974, 89 min)
It is a boy meets girl story of sorts but with a difference.
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| 1.00 am |
James Whale, The bride of Frankenstein (USA, 1935, 72 min)
Mary Shelly tells us a fairy tale in which she herself will reappear within the tale reborn as a creature made up of the dead her self. The classic masterpiece of 1930’s horror films.
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| 9.00 am |
Danny Schechter, Weapons of mass deception
(USA, 2004, 98 min)
There was another war fought in Iraq with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda techniques carried out by Weapons of Mass Deception.
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| 10.45 am |
Michael Raeburn, Zimbabwe, Liberation from Chaos
(Zimbabwe, 2003, 55 min)
Using statements of his former comrades in arms, both opposition members and those loyal to president Mugabe, the filmmaker analyses the mechanisms that led to the social crisis that is tearing his country apart.
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| 11.45 am |
Jonathan Stack, Liberia, an uncivil war (USA, 2004, 102 min)
In the summer of 2003, the lengthy power struggle between the rebel movement and government leader Charles Taylor reaches its climax with the imminent capture of the Liberian capital Monrovia.
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| 1.30 pm |
Peter Raymont, Shake hands with the devil
(Canada, 2004, 91 min)
Romeo Dallaire was the commander of the shamefully undermanned and under supported United Nations peacekeeping mission stationed in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. Dallaire was forced in the end to stand by, without water, as an entire country set itself on fire.
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| 2.00 pm |
Peter Liechti, Namibia crossing (Switzerland, 2004, 92 min)
A troupe made up of 12 musicians from different countries with 12 very different outlooks journey through a country that is reinventing itself from scratch: Namibia.
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| 3.30 pm |
Frederic Savoye and Wolimite Sie Palenfo,
Memory between Two Rivers (Burkina Faso/Tunisia, 90 min)
A new look at the history of French colonization in the Lobi region in Burkina Faso drawing back on written and oral histories.
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| 5.00 pm |
Jia Zhang Ke, Platform (China, 2000, 195 min)
Platform undertakes an ambitious survey of recent Chinese history following a provincial acting troupe through the post Mao period.
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| 8.45 pm |
Pirjo Honkasalo, The 3 Rooms of Melancholy
(Finland, 2004, 106 min)
About Chechan children against the backdrop of the ongoing Chechen war.
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| 10.30 pm |
Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Decameron (Italy, 1971, 112 min)
Boccacio’s master piece from the 14th century as rendered by Pasolini are ten tales told over ten days by ten storytellers, three noblemen and seven ladies.
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| 12.30 pm |
Tay Garnett, The postman always rings twice
(USA, 1946, 108 min)
A torrid love affair that ends up in murder this classic is based on one of the most notorious American pulp novels.
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| GREEN ROOM (NATIONAL THEATER) |
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| 12.00 am |
Lines of Longitude and Latitude
Dmitry Bulnygin, Black seeds (Russia/Kenya, 2005, 24 min)
We follow three East African choreographers as they work in three Russian contemporary dance companies.
Francois Bucher, White balance (to think is to forget differences) (Colombia, 2002, 30 min)
This film is an effort to uncover the geographies of power, the frontiers of privilege. Media and internet footage is intermixed with images shot in downtown Manhattan before and after the September 11th attacks.
Francois Bucher, Portrait of America as a young empire
(Colombia, 2005, 98 min)
A kind of found-footage film in which obscure old films are presented in a cunning order in which they refer to the present political situation.
Gayle Ferraro, Ganges: river to heaven (India, 2003, 79 min)
In this film, four families’ pursuit of heaven brings them to an ancient city and its dying river, the centuries old wellspring of India’s faith.
Helle Toft Jensen, Hotel of dreams (Denmark, 2005, 55 min)
After 25 years in Europe, Jeannot returns to his native Senegal to realise his childhood dream of building a hotel in the heart of the coastal village of Popenguine.
Raf Custers, Beulen in Baraka (Belgium, 2004, 40 min)
In the aftermath of war in Eastern Congo life slowly restores itself but the perpretators are not being prosecuted and some of their leaders are even in the government now.
Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, The Yes Men
(USA, 2004, 80 min)
This follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate the World Trade Organisation on TV and at business conferences around the world.
Scenarios from Africa
Collection of 15 short fiction films on HIV aids created by some of Africa’s finest directors.
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Opening
(All films translated into Luganda)
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SAN SIRO, Kibuye, Rubaga division
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| 2.00 pm |
Opening ceremony by Aisha Kabanda (private secretary ot the president’s secretarial office), Opening act: Adungu Dynamic Cultural Troupe
Wanjirui Kinyanjui from Kenya presents her film
The battle of the sacred tree Kenya (1995, 80 min
Freely based on the short story by Barbara Kimenye, it focuses on the conflict between traditional African beliefs and missionary zeal in a Kikuyu village.
Nathan Collett, The Oath (2004, 23 min)
Mwangi is pulled into the Mau Mau after taking an oath to fight the white man. Joseph insists violence is never justified. The brothers take actions that place them in opposition to each other.
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