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Film Screenings | Monday September 19, 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 |
Krysztof Kieslowski, The Dekalogue 4-5 (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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| 11.00 am |
Arthur Howes, Kafi’s Story (Sudan/UK, 1989, 53 min)
Kafi’s Story captures Nuba life at the moment before it was engulfed in the Sudanese civil war. Kafi narrates his own story into a portable tape record as he travels from his village to Khartoum to buy a new dress for his second wife.
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| 12.00 am |
John Marshall, Kalihari family Part I: A Far Country
(USA, 2002, 90 min)
Documents the live of the Ju/’hoansi engaged in their ancient economy based onhunting game with poison arrows and gathering wild bush foods.
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| 1.30 pm |
Dumitra Budrala, The curse of the hedgehog
(Rumania, 2004, 100 min)
The filmmaker accompanied a Roma (gypsy) family on the way from their dwelling place in the mountains to the lowland villages, where they try to trade handmade goods for food or money.
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| 3.00 pm |
Wondwossen Dikran, Journey to Lasta (Ethiopia, 2005, 125 min)
Inspired by a true story, it begins when three childhood friends from Ethiopia reunite in their lives as struggling musicians. Together, they embark upon a musical mission to bring modern Ethiopian music to the world.
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| 5.00 pm |
Kenyan Focus II
Ndungi Githuki, Walking shadows (Kenya, 2004, 48 min)
This is the first film to document the traumatic experience of torture victims during the Moi regime, centering on the 1985-87 persecution of Mkakeya rebels by State agents in the infamous Nyayo House torture chambers in Nairobi.
Ndungi Githuki, Assai (Kenya, 2005, 30 min)
The film traces 8 widows of the 1984 Wagalla Massacre as they embark on a one day tedious journey to Nairobi in search for justice.
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| 6.30 pm |
Godfrey Lubuulwa will accompany the first story films of Edwin S. Porter on solo accordion. Storytelling performance by Vincho Nchogu.  More
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| 7.00 pm |
VJ Slam
7 VJs will compete against one another while translating a surprise film in Luganda. The audience will determine the winner.
The contestants are: Vee-jay Jingo Timothy, Vee-jay Kiwa, Vee-jay Moses, Vee-jay Kisule Moses, Vee-jay Shokhau, Vee-jay Ssali & Vee-jay prince Nakibinge Joel. More
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| 8.30 pm |
Ugandan Focus III
Shams Bhanji, The “Moments” Project
Divine Intervention (Uganda, 2004, 4 min)
A story about a young man who is given an opportunity to better his life.
Distraction (Uganda, 2004, 45 sec)
A story with a humorous twist about protecting the environment.
The ATM Experience (Uganda, 2004, 40 sec)
This film shows how sexual fantasies can take over our daily lives
Donald Mugisha, When we shot a DV music video
(Uganda, 2005, 9 min)
What’s wrong with shooting in Uganda?? Nothing is wrong except time.
Steve Jack Nyeko, It can be round (Uganda, 2004, 5 min)
Khan, a young boy tries to find ways of making a ball so he can be able to play with his big brother Ronaldo and friend Figo.
Samson Ssenkaaba, Kakoko (Uganda, 2005, 7 min)
A film that questions the mystery of death in the eyes of a dying chicken.
Jeff Walker, Early Symptoms in Kampala (Uganda, 2004, 7 min)
Shot in Uganda and Rwanda this experimental narrative video explores ideas of knowledge – what can be known, hidden knowledge, (mis)perception and mistaken identity – while telling the story of a non-African’s time in East Africa.
Winnie Gamisha and Andreas Frowein, The Heart of Kampala (Uganda, 2005, 30 min)
‘The Heart of Kampala’ lays out the atmosphere of taxi park from the crack of dawn to deep in the night.
Robbie Wodomal, Gang Odong Obur (Uganda, 2005, 30 min)
A story told from the perspective of the night commuters of Gulu who shoot and tell their own experiences.
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| 10.00 pm |
Survey of African Animation Programme I
(Introduction by Silvia Bazzoli)
Moustapha Alassane
La mort du Gandji (Niger, 1963, 5 min)
Bon voyage sim (Niger, 1966, 5 min)
Samba le grand (Niger, 1977, 14 min)
Kokoa (Niger, 2000, 13 min)
Cilia Sawadogo
The tree of spirits (Burkina Faso, 2005, 45 min)
A Rabbit Tale (Burkina Faso, 2001, 9 min)
Christopher Changes his Name (Canada, 2000, 2 min)
The cora player (Burkina Faso/Canada, 1996, 7 min)
The woman with three husbands
(Burkina Faso/Canada, 1993, 6 min)
Bus stop (Burkina Faso, 1994, 2 min)
Birth (Burkina Faso, 1993, 2 min)
Jamie Mason, The magic of Anansi (USA, 2003, 6 min)
Real John K. Ossei, Annanse’s farm (Ghana, 7 min)
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| 12.00 pm |
Herk Harvey, Carnival of souls (USA, 1962, 78 min)
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| PLAZA THEATER |
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| 3.00 pm |
Katy Lena Ndiaye, Traces, Imprints of Woman
(Senegal, 2003, 52 min)
A portrait of an artistic community preoccupied with the issue of how to hand down traditions, of education and memory, in an Africa undergoing fundamental change.
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| 4.00 pm |
Harold Holscher, IBali (South Africa, 2003, 13 min)
The plot of ‘IBali’ conveys how African heritage is passed from generation to generation through the art of story telling. It is a mythical tale about a boy discovering the essence of water.
Roger Hawkins, Legend of sky kingdom
(Zimbabwe, 2003, 74 min)
A magical tale following the journey of a group of children on their way to find the mythical sky kingdom using a unique stop motion animation technique known as using junk to create the different worlds that the film inhabits.
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| 5.30 pm |
Lucrecia Martel, La cienaga (Argentina, 2001, 102 min)
This film was one of the decisive markers of the new energy in the Argentine cinema but also the new style: a remarkably stripped down but highly evocative approach to the experience of life.
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| 7.30 pm |
Francesco Falaschi, Emma sono lo (Italy, 2001, 91 min)
When a friend helps out to organize a wedding ceremony, the results turn to be disastrous.
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| 9.15 pm |
Sashi Kumar, Kaya taran (India, 2004, 105 min)
The film essentially deals with the dilemma of identity in a multicultural society that, every so often, turns volatile.
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| 11.00 pm |
Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Canterbury tales (Italy, 1972, 112 min)
A collection of tales based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous book that he left unfished at his death in 1400, about a group of pilgrims each of which tells a story on their pilgrimage to Canterbury.
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| GREEN ROOM (NATIONAL THEATER) |
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| 8 .00 pm |
Ugandan Backwoods Pioneers
Abdul Majid Ssenoga, The Struggle II (Uganda, 2005, 90 min)
Kizito Kigozi, Deliberate Punishment (Uganda, 2005, 60 min)
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| VIDEO HALLS |
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All programmes start at 2.00 pm. All films are translated in Luganda.
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ASHOCK Cinema, Kalerwe, Kawempe division
GUNNERS, Mengo, Central division
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Zola Maseko, A drink in the passage (South Africa, 2002, 29 min)
Story about a black man who wins a prize in a national sculpture competition billed to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Union of South Africa in 1960. The competition was intended for whites only but the committee decides to award the prize to the black sculptor and this causes a nationwide sensation.
Ramadan Suleman, Zulu love letter (South Africa, 2004, 100 min)
A stirring portrait of the women left behind due to the ravages of apartheid’s political regime. Thandeka, a 30-something single mother and journalist, can’t shake her personal demons.
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COSMA VIDEO CLUB, Bwaise, Kawempe division
DOWN TOWN VIDEO, Kamwokya, Central division
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Khalo Matabane, Story of a beautiful country
(South Africa/Canada, 2004, 73 min)
The journey of a young black filmmaker in search of his ‘new country’, the promised land - the new South Africa. Matabane travels with a hand-held camera throughout nine provinces of his country, films entirely from the seat of a mini-bus taxi, capturing the physical beauty of a still troubled land.
Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Abouna (Tchad, 2002, 81 min)
Tahir and Amine wake up one morning and realize that their father has mysteriously left the house. They go on a journey through town to places which their father frequently visited. Without finding him.
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DOWN TOWN VIDEO CLUB, Kawempe, Kawempe division
CARNIVAL VIDEOS, Kisenyi, Central division
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Nathan Collet, The Oath (Kenya, 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.
Wanjirui Kinyanjui, The battle of the sacred tree
(Kenya, 1995, 80 min)
‘Battle of the Sacred Tree’ focuses on the conflict between traditional African beliefs and missionary zeal in a Kikuyu village.
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NEW STD. VIDEO CLUB, Kawempe, Kawempe division
MOVIE SPORT CENTRE, Mengo, Central division
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Raso Ganemtore, Safi, The Little Mother
(Burkina Faso, 2004, 30 min)
After the death of her mother in childbirth, Safi finds herself with a baby brother she has rescued from the village.
Maria Joao 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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