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Film Screenings | Tuesday September 20, 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 |
Peter Bate, Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
(Belgium 2003, 100 min)
This film describes Leopold II, King of Belgium’s private colony of the Congo as a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality.
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| 10.45 am |
Ibdea Atondi and Karim Miske, Cruel Stories of the War
(DRC, 2002, 51 min)
The story of a man’s return to his home country is adopted to give an unusual view point on the wars of contemporary Africa.
Horeb Bulambo, Prejudice (DRC, 2005, 20 min)
A young mixed couple decides to go back to Africa after their marriage in America.
Modogo Mutembwi, Parc national de Virunga
(DRC, 2005, 12 min)
During a war crisis, not only human beings are affected; nature also pays the price.
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| 12.00 am |
John Marshall, Kalihari family Part II: End of the Road
(USA, 2002, 60 min)
They came in search of water, employment and an easier life but found scarcity, unemployment and liquor.
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| 1.00 pm |
Bahman Ghobadi, A Time for Drunken Horses (Iran, 2000, 80 min)
With a history full of turmoil and oppression, this film follows a sibling family in their struggle to survive just off the Iraqi border in Iranian Kurdistan.
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| 2.30 pm |
Christian LeLong, Justice à Agadez (Niger, 2003, 78 min)
In this documentary LeLong follows the Charia judges of Agadez as they make decisions over divorce, heritage, violence and neighbourhood quarrels.
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| 4.00 pm |
Tanzanian Focus I
Farida Nyamachumbe, Stone Town forum – Stone Town and children (Zamzibar/Tanzania, 2005, 26 min)
Maida Thabit is a little girl from Zanzibar stone Town who is passionate about keeping her town clean.
Martin Mhando, Scandal (Zanzibar/Tanzania, 2005, 28 min)
The story is set against the conflicts surrounding the need to preserve the old town’s heritage and the growing pressure for living quarters.
Mwangaza Paul Kang’anga, Kizungu Zungu
(Tanzania, 2005, 35 min)
This is the story of professor Kabaga who is genuinely respected in society. No one suspects him to be a devil in disguise except his only son who comes to realize this when it is already too late.
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| 5.30 pm |
Congolese Focus II
Guy Bomanyama-Zandu, The audiovisual heritage of Congo
(DR Congo, 2005, 9 min)
The Congolese film archive has thousands of films by filmmakers going back to 1935, but preserved in a deplorable state and today in the process of disappearing.
Guy Bomanyama-Zandu, Maysi taximan in Kinshasa
(DR Congo, 2005, 26 min.)
This documentary follows the day of a taxi man in Kinshasa, depicting aspects of the everyday life in contemporary Kinshasa.
Guy Bomanyama-Zandu, The cinema in Congo (DRC, 2005, 7 min)
Today, Congolese film makers wonder about the future of their cinema, which has to survive without any kind of support.
Nolda Massamba and Max Scénars, Kabamba
(DRC, 2004, 13,5 min)
Sandra is a young girl who lives with her mother who is her most important rival.
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| 6.30 pm |
Storytelling performance by Mshaï Mwangola.  More
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| 7.00 pm |
Rwandan Focus II
Jacques Rutabingwa, Isugi (Rwanda, 2005, 25 min)
‘Isugi’ is the story of a young female survivor of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 who is left without family.
Jacques Rutabingwa, Sortir de l’abîme (Rwanda, 2005, 45 min)
In 1994, Christine lived in Kigali with her husband and her four children. Today, ten years after, she accepts to narrate in front of our camera her confrontation with absolute horror.
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| 8.00 pm |
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.
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| 9.45 pm |
Rap-video performance by Emma Katya & Saint CA & Donald Mugisha. More
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| 11.00 pm |
Ilya Khrzhanovsky, 4 (Russia, 2004, 126 min)
From the meat market, to the president’s drinking habit or the soviet cloning project, this allegory opposes different aspects of contemporary Russian society.
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| 1.00 am |
Jan Svankmajer, Little Otik (Czeck Republic, 2001, 126 min)
Old folk story traditions is fused with modern day urban life as well as animation techniques with conventional photography to tell a decidedly traditional story in a very unorthodox way.
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| PLAZA THEATER |
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| 3.00 pm |
Giulio Manfredonia, If I were you (Se Fossi in Te)
(Italy, 2003, 100 min)
One day three characters meet accidentally and decide to live each others life.
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| 5.00 pm |
Raso Ganemtore, Safi the little mother
(Burkina Faso, 2005, 30 min)
After the death of her mother in childbirth, Safi finds herself with a baby brother she has rescued from the village.
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| 5.30 pm |
Bo Wilderberg, Elvira Madigan (Sweden, 1967, 90 min)
Legendary for its lush photography and framing of its simple and ultimately tragic love story.
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| 7.00 pm |
Ravi Bharwani, The rainmaker (Indonesia, 2004, 86 min)
In a barren and dry village, three people with their personal dreams, interact with each other.
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| 8.30 pm |
Wanjirui Kinyanjui, The battle of the sacred tree
(Kenya, 1995, 80 min)
Freely based on a short Ugandan story Barb this film focuses on the conflict between traditional African beliefs and missionary zeal in a Kikuyu village.
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| 10.00 pm |
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Arabian nights (Italy, 1973, 131 min)
A collection of tales that comes from India, persia and Arabia reflecting the highly civilized Islamic world of the 9th to 13th century.
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| YOUTH SHARING CENTER NSAMBYA |
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| 1.00 pm |
Survey African Animation Film Part I
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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| 3.00 pm |
Moussa Toure, Pousieres de ville (Senegal, 2001, 52 min)
Seven children in rags crawl out from under a Brazzaville market stall where they have spent the night.
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| 3.30 pm |
Jean Pierre Bekolo, Le Quartier Mozart
(Cameroon, 1992, 80 min)
Told over a 48-hour period in a working class neighborhood in Yaounde, Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s film is the story of the not-very-sentimental education of a young schoolgirl known as Queen of the ‘Hood.
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| 5.30 pm |
Martin Juicely will perform in word and music the story of Wakayima the Hare. More
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| 6.00 pm |
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.
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| 8.00 pm |
Perry Henzel, The harder they come (Jamaica, 1973, 120 min)
Based on the real life story of a 1940’s ghetto gunman called Rhygin. The theme of rebellion, the identification with movie heroes and the haunting reggae lyrics explain its popularity then and now.
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| GREEN ROOM (NATIONAL THEATER) |
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| 6.00 pm |
The River Road Deal
Selection of new videos fresh from River Road, Nairobi. Don’t be surprised if they were made yesterday.
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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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NEW WAVES VIDEO CLUB, Katwe
SAN SIRO, Kibuye, Rubaga 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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NEW MATRIX, Jaawo zone
ARIZONA VIDEOS, Wankulukulu, Rubaga 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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GGABA ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, Ggaba
YOUNG BOYS VIDEO CLUB, Natete, Rubage 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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SEBUNYA VIDEO, Masajja
PENTAGON VIDEOS, Mutundwe
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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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