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Film Screenings | Saturday September 24, 2005 |
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! All Screenings and Events are FREE of charge !
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| 10.00 am |
Storylines Symposium in auditorium (till 5.00 pm).  More
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| 5.00 pm |
Performance by Kitabi poets. More
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| 5.30 pm |
Survey African Animation Film Part IV
Vincent Glès, Le Bûcheron de Zietrou (Ivory Coast, 2001, 11 min)
Mohamadou Ndoye, Train train medina (Senegal, 2001, 7 min)
Benjamin Ntabundi, Michel Castelain, Jacques Faton,
Carnet noir (Burundi, 1996, 7 min)
Rasmane Tiendrebeogo
Tiga guérisseur (Burkina Faso, 2001, 6 min)
Tiga au bout du fil (Burkina Faso, 2002, 10 min)
Pierre Sauvalle
The general assembly of diseases (Cameroon, 2000, 8 min)
Kabongo the griot (Cameroon, 2000, 13 min).
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| 6.30 pm |
Presented by the filmmaker:
Mweze Ngangura and Benoit Lamy, Life is Rosy
(DRC, 1987, 85 min)
This film takes us inside the vibrant music scene of Kinshasha,starring Papa Wemba in a rags to riches story of a poor rural musician who finally gets his big break on television.
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| 8.00 pm |
Presented by the filmmaker:
Khalo Matabane, Love in times of sickness
(South Africa, 2001, 26 min)
This film is an honest account of how the already complex nature of relating takes on new meaning in a time of sickness.
Khalo Matabane, Story of a beautiful country
(South Africa, 2004, 73 min)
Khalo Matabane takes a journey across the new South Africa in a minibus taxi while he keeps the camera running during his many encounters with as many stories.
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| 10.30 pm |
Issa Serge Coelo, Daressalam (Chad, 2000, 105 min)
Two childhood friends, Koni and Djimi, flee from their village after a visit by tax collectors goes wrong to join the guerrillas.
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| 12.15 am |
Tsui Hark, Once Upon a Time in China (China, Hong Kong, 1991)
This film, much like the similarly titled Leone film, is also an operatic exercise in pure stylistic excess and a total celebration of the classical elements of this genre: the martial arts period piece.
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| 1.30 am |
Ching Siu-Tung, A Chinese Ghost Story (Hong Kong, 1987)
The film is a wild dream celebration of pure graphic spectacle that virtually conjures itself out of a constantly altered sense of reality.
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| PLAZA THEATER |
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| 9.00 pm |
Orson Welles, It’s All True (including ‘Four Men on a Raft’)
(Brazil/USA 1942, 89 min)
Both a documentary and a unique exercise in film restoration, it tells the complex story of Orson Welles’ ill-fated attempts to make an anthology film about the life and culture of South America.
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| 10.30 am |
Robert Greenwald, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about Iraq
(USA, 2003, 58 min)
The filmmaker chronicles the Bush administration’s determined quest to invade Iraq following the events of September 11, 2001, and how they hoodwinked the American people into supporting an unnecessary war.
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| 11.30 am |
Jehane Noujaim, Control Room (USA, 2004, 84 min)
A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War via Al Jazeera, the Arab’s world most popular news outlet.
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| 1.00 pm |
Garret Scott, Occupation: dreamland (USA, 2005, 79 min)
A terrifying journey into the lives of a group of soldiers of the 82nd Airborne stationed in Fallujah in 2003 that takes us deep into the process that makes young men both resist and succumb to the dehumanizing sensuality of killing other human beings.
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| 2.30 pm |
Arthur Howes, Benjamin and his brother: the lost boys, part one
(UK, 2002, 87 min)
This intimate film recounts the story of Benjamin and William Deng, brothers joined in the struggle of a seemingly never ending exile, who are then separated when one is accepted into a United States resettlement programme while the other remains in a Kenyan refugee camp.
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| 4.00 pm |
Kim Longinotto, Sisters in law (UK, 2005, 104 min)
The daily work of state prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Beatrice Ntuba, court workers in a small town in Cameroon who take a hard feminist line in a male dominated society.
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| 6 .00 pm |
Moussa Sene Absa, Madame Brouette (Mali, 2002, 104 min)
Proud and independent, Mati, also known as Madame Brouette (Mrs. Wheelbarrow), makes a living by pushing her wheelbarrow through the marketplace in Sandaga, Senegal, when she falls in love once again…
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| 8.00 pm |
U-Wei Bin Hajisaari, Swing my swing high, my darling
(Malaysia, 2004, 93 min)
The setting of “The postman always rings twice….” has now been shifted deep in the heart of Malaysia.
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| 9.30 pm |
Walter Salles, Motorcycle diaries (Brazil, 2004, 128 min)
An adaptation of a journal written by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (Bernal) when he was 23 years old.
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| 11.45 pm |
Park Chan-Wook, Oldboy (South Korea, 2003, 120 min)
The gripping story of an ordinary business man who suddenly disappears, having been kidnapped and kept in a single locked room for fifteen years without explanation.
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| GREEN ROOM (NATIONAL THEATER) |
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10.00 am
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Mwattu Marathon
20 episodes back to back from That’s life Mwattu, with the personal appearances of Sam Bagenda and John W. Katende at
6.00 pm.
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