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Film Screenings | Friday September 23, 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 9-10 (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 |
Ethiopian Focus II
(Introduced by Yirgashewa Teshome)
Belay Werkeneh, The lost tribe (Ethiopia, 1992, 15 min)
The story of a young Ethiopian boy’s struggle to overcome revolution and famine in order to realize his ultimate dream, to reach the land of Israel.
Belay Werkeneh, Zemad’s Journey (Ethiopia, 2004, 60 min)
This film tells the story of an Ethiopian girl named Zemad in her early teens and her struggle to survive in the tumult of modern day Addis.
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| 12.30 pm |
John Marshall, Kalihari family Part V Death by Myth
(USA, 2002, 90 min)
This last part documents the shift in policy from farming to wildlife management and cultural tourism and the power of the ‘Bushman myth’.
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| 2.00 pm |
Mark Daniels, Classified X (France/USA, 1998, 50 min)
Black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles examines African-American film history starting with ‘A Birth of a Nation’.
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| 3.00 pm |
The Birth of Another Nation: Musical responses by Black Roots Unlimited to D.W. Griffith, Birth of a nation (USA, 1915, 190 min)
A controversial, explicitly racist, but landmark American film.  More
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| 6.00 pm |
Godfrey Lubuulwa will accompany the very earliest story films of Edwin S. Porter on solo accordion. Storytelling Performance by Wassanyi Serukenya More
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| 6.30 pm |
Rwandan Focus III
Eric Kabera, Mr. President (Rwanda, 2005, 18 min)
While driving his cab in Massachusetts, Ali Doh, a son of Africa satirically criticizes African leaders and African mentality as a whole.
Jacqueline Kalimunda, About braids (Rwanda, 2002, 23 min)
Siham is looking for someone to braid her hair. One night, Dorylia and Siham meet. In the morning, their lives will have changed.
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| 7.15 pm |
Presented by the filmmaker:
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Kare Kare Zwako - Mother’s Day
(Zimbabwe, 2004, 30 min)
Based on an old Shona folk tale this is a satire on the archetypical sacrificial nature of the woman as mother and wife.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Hard Earth (Zimbabwe, 2001, 54 min)
This film investigates what life on an occupied Zimbabwean farm is like from many points of view: the farmers, farm workers and occupiers.
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| 9.00 pm |
Buster Keaton’s The General (1927) with musical accompaniment by Baxmba Waves
Another tale set during the Civil War in America ‘The general’ is one of comic genius Buster Keaton’s finest works. More
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| 10.30 pm |
Presented by the filmmaker:
Mweze Ngangura, The Governor’s New Clothes
(DRC, 2005, 86 min)
The film is adapted from a famous by Danish fairy tale and addresses power, vanity, and contemporary African politics.
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| 12.00 pm |
Jospeh Gai Ramaka, Karmen Geï (Senegal, 2001, 84 min)
The story of a passion which unfolds to the rhythm of a ‘black’ Carmen guided by Mozart’s Requiem.
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Blaxploitation Marathon
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| 4.00 pm |
Isaac Julien, Baadasssss cinema (UK, 2002, 56 min)
This film looks back to the soulful, strange days of the 1970’s to explore an exciting and controversial era of film history: the phenomenon that was blaxploitation.
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| 5.00 pm |
Ivan Dixon, The spook who sat by the door (USA, 1973, 102 min)
A congressman hoping to attract African-American voters during an election year decides to make political hay by pointing out that the CIA has no black agents.
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| 7.00 pm |
Larry Cohen, Black Ceasar (USA, 1973, 87 min)
About the determined rise and precipitous fall of a man-about-town-gangster who gambles his way through life with total panache.
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| 8.30 pm |
Ossie Davis, Cotton comes to Harlem (USA, 1970, 97 min)
This may be the film that really kicked off the Blaxsploitation explosion as it not only determined the predominant genre (which was the crime thriller) it also set the mode and tone (sardonic humour with a real attitude).
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| 10.15 pm |
Jack Hill, Foxy brown (USA, 1974, 94 min)
At her peak, Pam Grier, the voluptuous queen of blaxploitation movies, reigns supreme in this action extravaganza.
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| 11.45 pm |
Gordon Parks Junior, Superfly (USA, 1972, 93 min)
A unique conflation of music and narrative. While our hero is fixed in his own luxurious and indulgent fantasy soul-master Mayfield constantly reminds us that we are trapped on a decadent road to destruction.
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| 1.15 pm |
Melvin van Peebles, Sweet sweetback’s baadasssss song
(USA, 1971, 97 min)
Melvin Van Peebles wrote, directed, produced, edited, composed and starred in this powerful and inflammatory attack on White America.
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| BAT VALLEY THEATER |
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Amakula Kids Day
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| 4.00 pm |
Puppet Play by Atuwa Troupe More
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| 5.00 pm |
Djibril Diop Mambety, Le Franc (Senegal, 1997, 45 min)
The hero discovers that he has the winning lottery ticket which he has glued to his front door so as not to lose it. This is the simple basis for all that follows which drives our man to desperation and finally to a kind of exalted despair.
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| 6.00 pm |
Djibril Diop Mambety, The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
(Senegal, 1999, 50 min)
An elementally simple tale about a girl who sells newspapers in the street rendered with absolute fidelity and clarity.
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| 7.00 pm |
Idrissa Ouedraogo, Tilai (Burkina Faso, 1990, 90 min)
Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. A breakthrough film in the ‘back to the villages’ movement in African cinema.
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| 9.00 pm |
Ousmane Sembene, Xala (Senegal, 1975, 123 min)
A rich, corrupt business executive marries for the third time for the express purpose of getting his name in the papers. After a disappointing wedding night, the businessman discovers that he’s impotent.
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| GREEN ROOM (NATIONAL THEATER) |
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| 6.00 pm |
Scenarios from Africa
Short films from around Africa that deal with the theme Aids, by some of the best known African directors.
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| VIDEO HALLS |
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All programmes start at 2.00 pm. All films are translated in Luganda.
For film descriptions see video halls programme Monday September 19.
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SAN SIRO, Kibuye, Rubaga division
KAWESE VIDEO CLUB, Mutungo, Nakawa 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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ARIZONA VIDEOS, Wankulukuku, Rubage division
ART LAND VIDEO CINEMA, Kulambiro, Nakawa 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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YOUNG BOYS VIDEO CLUB, Natete, Rubaga division
TOUCH OF CLASS, Luzira
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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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PENTAGON VIDEOS, Mutundwe, Rubaga division
BEST OF THE BEST, Ntinda, Nakawa 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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