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Film Screenings | Thursday September 22, 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 |
Ann Mulders, My Congo (Belgium, 2003, 80 min)
Presented as 3 stories this film portrays the funny and the sad side of the daily struggle for life in Congo. Two documentaries of 40 minutes each present 3 stories.
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| 10.30 am |
Burundian Focus I
Jean Charles Ami, Pour mieux s’entendre
(Burundi, 2002, 52 min)
African women are increasingly taking up a pen to tell a different story of Africa. The soft, firm voice of Burundi playwright Marie-Louise Sibazuri speaks out in the Great Lakes region.
Lydia Ngaruka, Bulaya, qu’as-tu fait de mon enfance?
(Burundi, 2005, 46 min)
About children of mixed marriage before independence who were sometimes sent to Europe without the consent of the African mother.
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| 12.00 pm |
John Marshall, Kalihari family Part IV: Standing Tall
(USA, 2002, 60 min)
This film documents the efforts of members of the Ju/’hoan farmers’ co-op to find their relatives in the white ranching districts and black ethnic homeland after the end of colonial rule in 1989.
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| 1.00 pm |
Introduced by Tsitsi Dangarembga:
Godwin Maruru, Neria (Zimbabwe, 2003, 103 min)
When Neria’s and Patricks loving and equal partnership ends with his tragic death, Neria’s nightmare begins when his brother use tradition and law to claim what he thinks is his.
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| 3.00 pm |
Ousmane Sembene, Mandabi (The Money Order)
(Senegal, 1968, 90 min)
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order.
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| 4.30 pm |
Presented by the filmmaker:
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Everyone’s child (Zimbabwe, 1996, 85 min)
The story of two children’s abrupt journey into a world of adult responsibility.
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| 6.00 pm |
Storytelling performance by Martin Juicely.  More
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| 6.30 pm |
Survey African Animation Film Part III
Jean Michel Kibushi
Prince Loseno (DRC, 2004, 29 min)
Muana Mboka (DRC, 1999, 14 min)
The toad visits his family in lawpart episode 1&2
(DRC, 1992, 8 min)
Kinshasa, Black September (DRC, 1992, 7 min)
Muambayi Coulibaly, Segou Janjo, la Geste de Segou
(Mali, 1989, 9 min)
Kadiatou Konaté, The Mischievous Child (Mali, 1993, 12 min)
Robin Lloyd and Doreen Kraft, Black dawn (Haiti, 1978, 18 min)
Shane Etzenhouser and Bruktawit Tigabu, The great animal run
(Ethiopia, 2005, 14 min)
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| 8.00 pm |
Melies Movie Magic Show featuring films by George Méliès (France, 1898-1909) accompanied with live music by Rita Sabiiti, Fred Kiggundu and Mbabazi Mpuga. More
These short films relied on multiple exposures to create the illusion of people and objects appearing and disappearing at will, or changing from one form to another.
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| 9.00 pm |
Otto Preminger, Carmen Jones (USA, 1954, 105 min)
At an all-black army camp, civilian parachute maker Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who’s engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War.
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| 11.00 pm |
Raja Amari, Red Satin (Tunisia, 2002, 95 min)
When respectable Tunisian widow Lilia suspects her teenage daughter Salma of having an affair with musician Chokri, she tracks him to his workplace and enters the exotic world of the Red Satin cabaret.
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| 12.30 am |
Ferzen Uzpetek, Harem Suare (Turkey, 1998, 106 min)
Intriguing and dreamy story of a Turk living in Italy who discovers he has inherited a Turkish bath back in Istanbul from a deceased aunt, the film becomes a web of alternately told stories.
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| PLAZA THEATER |
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| 3.00 pm |
Marco Bellochio, L’ora di religione (Italy, 2002, 102 min)
Ernesto hears that his mother is in the process of being made a saint. He is stunned by this news both because his family has not mentioned anything to him about it and because it contradicts everything he believes in as an artist, an atheist and a free man.
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| 4.45 pm |
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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| 6.00 pm |
Gyorgy Palfi, Hukkle (Hungary, 2004, 75 min)
In a village the useless members of the community die one after another: those unable to work, the unemployed, old people, and ill ones. Behind the apparently idyll lay a series of murders. All women of the village are guilty.
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| 7.15 pm |
Christian Lelong and Pierre Mortimore, Agadez nomade FM
(Niger, 2003, 75 min)
The directors visited this ancient desert city in Niger to make a film that is structured around their walk around town, conveying the complexity and richness of its culture
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| 8.45 pm |
Vishal Bhardwaj, Maqbool (India, 2003, 131 min)
Here is Shakespeares MacBeth transplated into the Bombay underworld where a large organized crime syndicate will soon be usurped by the young ambitious Maqbool.
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| 11.00 pm |
King Hu, A touch of zen (Taiwan, 1971, 170 min)
An intimate ghost story at the outset but gradually the tale has transformed several times before it has become the transcendental cosmic epic this intriguing storyteller spins for us as a climax.
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| GREEN ROOM (NATIONAL THEATER) |
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| 6.00 pm |
African Animation programme
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| 9.00 pm |
Smörgasboard
Short films from Sweden
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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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DOWN TOWN VIDEO, Kamwokya, Central division
SEBUNYA VIDEO, Masajja
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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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GUNNERS VIDEO HALL, Mengo, Central division
NEW WAVES VIDEO CLUB, Jaawo zone
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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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MOVIE SPORT CENTRE, Mengo, Central division
NEW MATRIX VIDEO CLUB, Jaawo zone
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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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CARNIVAL VIDEOS, Kisenyi, Central division
GGABA ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, Ggaba
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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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