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Film Screenings | Wednesday September 21, 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 6-8 (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 |
John Marshall, Kalihari family Part III: The Real Water
(USA, 2002, 60 min)
Three farming communities are established and the people are busy milking and managing their cattle. However, the fledging community faces a new threat.
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| 1.00 pm |
Rithy Panh, The rice people
(France/Germany/Switzerland, 1994, 129 min)
Set in the yearly cycle of rice farming, this film depicts the struggles of rice farmers in a rural Cambodian setting.
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| 3.00 pm |
Tanzanian Focus II
Safaa Ally and Lars Johansson, Housegirl
(Tanzania/Sweden, 2004, 26 min)
Filmed in Mwanza, it depicts the struggles that young girls undergo when employed as domestic laborers in the city.
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| 3.30 pm |
Fernando Meirelles and Nando Olival, Domésticas
(Brasil, 2001, 85 min)
Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film which reveals alternative worlds of private stories, secret dreams and desires
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| 5.00 pm |
Kenyan Focus III
Nathan Collet, The Oath (Kenya, 2004, 23 min)
A story about two brothers: 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.
Albert Wandago, Simbi Nyaima (Kenya, 2004, 40 min)
An old lady comes walking in to the village to look for shelter but the chief refuses her. The not very hospitable reception of the rest of the village however will have dire consequences for this community.
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| 6.15 pm |
Godfrey Lubuulwa will accompany the first story films of Edwin S. Porter on solo accordion. Storytelling performance by Betty Tibaleka.
 More
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| 6.45 pm |
Survey African Animation Film Part II
(introduced by Silvia Maria Bazzoli)
William Kentridge
History of the main complaint (South Africa, 1996, 5 min)
Weighing and…Wanting (South Africa, 1997, 6 min)
Stereoscope (South Africa, 1999, 8 min)
Firdaus Kharas, The three amigos
(Canada/South Africa, 2004, 2 min)
Wendy Morris
Taste the World (South-Africa, 2005, 4 min)
A Royal Hunger (South Africa, 2002, 6 min)
Lara Foot Newton and Gerhard Marx, And there in the dust
(South Africa, 2004, 7 min)
Luma Animation Studios, Speedy (South Africa, 2004, 26x1 min)
Ancilla Berry, Ummemo (the echo) (South Africa, 2004, 12 min)
Jacquie Trowell, Sesame Street favourites (USA, 10 min)
Sun Rise Productions
Always take the whether with you (Zimbabwe, 6 min)
Jungle Beat (Zimbabwe 3x5 min)
Carlos Spivey
Whisper (USA, 7 min)
Mama seed tree (USA, 3 min)
The world is a drum (USA, 5 min)
Time Machine (Whisper two) (USA, 17 min)
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| 9.00 pm |
With a talk by Mshaï Mwangola
Souleymane Cisse, Yeleen (Mali, 1987, 105 min)
Drawing his tale from the oral traditions of the Bambara, Cissé has fashioned an innovative narrative style that captures his people’s belief in time ‘as circular, not linear, always returning to that initial ‘brightness which creates the world.’
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| 11.00 pm |
Wojciech J. Has, The Saragossa manuscript (USA, 1965, 180 min)
Immersed in these stories within stories and puzzle boxes within boxes, one enters a dazzling, mysterious world of the supernatural through the vehicle of a magical book discovered during the Napoleonic Wars by a pair of opposing soldiers.
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| PLAZA THEATER |
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| 3.30 pm |
Moufida Tlatli, Silences of the palace (Tunisia, 1994, 128 min)
Within the confines of the palace walls, Prince Sid ‘Ali and his brother exercise their ‘rights of the bed-chamber’ over the women servants imprisoned forever under their command.
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| 5.45 pm |
Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story (Japan, 1953, 136 min)
This film chronicles an elderly couple’s visit to their grown, unfeeling children, often cited as favorite film of all times.
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| 8.00 pm |
Peter Brook, The Mahabarata (France, 1989, 360min)
The Mahabharata is one of the two major ancient Sanskrit epics of India, and second longest literary epic poem in the world.
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| YOUTH SHARING CENTER NSAMBYA |
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| 1.00 pm |
Survey African Animation Film Part II
William Kentridge
History of the main complaint (South Africa, 1996, 5 min)
Weighing and…Wanting (South Africa, 1997, 6 min)
Stereoscope (South Africa, 1999, 8 min)
Firdaus Kharas, The three amigos
(Canada/South Africa, 2004, 2 min)
Wendy Morris
Taste the World (South-Africa, 2005, 4 min)
A Royal Hunger (South Africa, 2002, 6 min)
Lara Foot Newton and Gerhard Marx, And there in the dust
(South Africa, 2004, 7 min)
Luma Animation Studios, Speedy (South Africa, 2004, 26x1 min)
Ancilla Berry, Ummemo (the echo) (South Africa, 2004, 12 min)
Jacquie Trowell, Sesame Street favourites (USA, 10 min)
Sun Rise Productions
Always take the whether with you (Zimbabwe, 6 min)
Jungle Beat (Zimbabwe 3x5 min)
Carlos Spivey
Whisper (USA, 7 min)
Mama seed tree (USA, 3 min)
The world is a drum (USA, 5 min)
Time Machine (Whisper two) (USA, 17 min)
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| 2.45 pm |
Mweze Ngangura, Identity Card (DRC, 1998, 94 min)
A timeless story of an old king, his beautiful but wayward daughter, a dragon of sorts, and the prince charming who rescues them. A fairy tale that raises contemporary issues of identity of Africans in the Diaspora.
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| 4.15 pm |
Ziad Doueiri, West Beyrouth (Lebanon, 1998, 105 min)
with laughter and tears the movie follows the three friends’ slow awakening to the nightmares of the adult world, culminating with the Israeli invasion of 1982.
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| 6.00 pm |
Michael Wanguhu, Hip hop colony (Kenya, 2004, 120 min)
‘Hip Hop Colony’ is a documentary detailing the art form of hip hop in Kenya, East Africa. It is an Exhibition of local talent, bringing alive this new culture and the subculture within it.
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| 8.00 pm |
Rap-video performance by Emma Katya & Saint CA & Donald Mugisha. More
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| 8.30 pm |
Nick Broomfield, Biggy & 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 puzzling mystery in Hip Hop today.
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| GREEN ROOM (NATIONAL THEATER) |
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| 6.00 pm |
The Nigerian Model
A selection of just arrived Nigerian videos to chart the newest trends.
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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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KAWESE VIDEO CLUB, Mutungo, Nakawa division
NEW STD. VIDEO CLUB, Kawempe, Kawempe 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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ART LAND VIDEO CINEMA, Kulambiro, Nakawa division
ASHOCK CINEMA, Kalerwe, Kawempe 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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TOUCH OF CLASS, Luzira division
COSMA VIDEO CLUB, Bwaise, Kawempe 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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BEST OF THE BEST, Ntinda, Nakawa division
DOWN TOWN VIDEO CLUB, Kawempe, Kawempe 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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