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Film Screenings | Sunday September 25, 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 |
Tanzanian Focus III
Kapwani Kiwanga, Bon voyage (Tanzania/Scotland, 2004, 3 min)
A visual exploration of labor, Bon Voyage is a portrait of one woman and her workplace: the toilets of Paris’ Montparnasse rail station.
Kapwani Kiwanga, Rooted (Tanzania/Scotland, 2004, 24 min)
An intimate look at the Afro hair salon in Scotland.
Yasinta Mtarasha, Lars Johansson, Sara Alex, Nyumba Ntobhu
(Tanzania, 2004, 28 min)
A film about women marrying other women in order to have companionship and bear children in their old age.
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| 10.00 am |
Sao Gamba, Imaashoi ol’ Maasae: People of the red ochre
(Kenya, 1975, 50 min)
Sao Gamba spent many months in the Kajiado region of Southern Kenya, documenting the life of the Masaai community.
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| 11.00 am |
Uganda Focus IV
Caroline Kamya, Donna’s deep monologues
(Uganda, 2005, 13 min)
An African American woman returns to Africa in search of her true identity and decides to contribute to the woman’s liberation movement by participating in the first ever staging of Vagina Monologues in Uganda.
Lovinsa Kavuma, Lost Boys of Congo
(Uganda/DRC, 2004, 10 min)
This documentary looks at the lives of children from the refugee camps in Bunia to refugee settlements in Uganda.
Anna Nabulaya and Anna Sabelstrom, The people of Sanga
(Uganda/Sweden, 2004, 24 min)
This is a moving story about a people who have been forced out of the place they once called home: the island of Sanga now bought by a British man.
Geoffrey Ssenoga, Perspectives (Uganda, 2004, 30 min)
A documentary video of the Ssese Islands featuring the creeping aids epedemic on the innocent people of one of the few remaining nature reserves of Uganda.
Miha Logar, The Bakiga: How We Throw Away Our African Culture (Uganda, 2005, 30 min)
A story told by Festo Karwemera, a respected elder from Kabale in south-western Uganda leading us around the land of the Bakiga.
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| 1.00 pm |
Storytelling performance by Festo Karwemera, storyteller
from Kabale.  More
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| 1.30 pm |
Oscar Micheaux, Within our gates (USA, 1918, 97 min) with music
accompaniment by Buganda Music Ensemble
The film was designed explicitly as an answer to D. W.Griffith’s ‘Birth of a Nation’ by the first African America feature film director.
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| 3.00 pm |
Selected films by Moustapha Alassane presented by the filmmaker.
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CLOSING NIGHT
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| 5.00 pm |
Multi-media dance performance by Y!Dance. More
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| 5.30 pm |
Award Ceremony Golden Impala
Best Short African Film
Jury: Moustapha Alassane, Maria Silvia Bazzoli, Dominique Dipio, Ogova Ondega, Mshai Mwangola
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| 6.00 pm |
Storytelling performance by ZameleoAct. More
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| 6.30 pm |
Closing Film
Sembene Ousmane, Moolaadé (Senegal, 2004, 120 min)
The flight of six girls just before undergo a purification ritual, seeking refuge with the second wife of one of the villagers who activates the ‘moolaade’: an old charm that will bring calamity to anyone who does anything to the girls while they are under her roof.
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| 8.30 pm |
Closing Night Bon Fire Storytelling Night
National Theater outdoors
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| PLAZA THEATER |
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| 9.00 pm |
Roberto Rossellini, Rome, open city (Italy, 1945, 105 min)
The official birth of Italian neo-realism arrives fully with this film which presented World War II occupation stories from a ‘popular front’ perspective.
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| 11.00 am |
Luchino Visconti, Ossessione (Italy, 1943, 140 min)
The first version of “The postman always rings twice”, generally considered to be first Neorealist film, it adapts the story to the plight of the very poor.
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| 1.30 pm |
Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni,
Story of the weeping camel (Germany/Mongolia, 2003, 87 min)
Nomadic shepherds send their two young boys on a journey through the desert in search of a musician who is their only hope for saving their just born baby camel.
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| 3.00 pm |
Ho Quang Minh, A Time far past (Vietnam, 2004, 109 min)
We witness a rite of passage as a young man comes of age quickly after being married off at the age of 12 to an 18 year old girl.
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| 5.00 pm |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Uzak (Distant) (Turkey, 2002, 110 min)
A photographer who is haunted by the feeling that the gap between his life and his ideals is growing, finds himself obliged to put up in his apartment a young relative who has left behind his village looking for a job aboard a ship in Istanbul to go abroad.
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| 7.00 pm |
Alexander Sokurov, Russian ark (Russia, 2002, 96 min)
A single camera shot unbroken for the length of the film travels throughout St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum following one central character who will pass through historic epochs, encounter furtive interactions and past a literal cast of thousands and more stories.
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| 9.00 pm |
Wolfgang Petersen, The Neverending Story (USA, 1984, 94 min)
An all out fantasy about a boy visualizing the stories of a book he’s reading.
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| 10.30 pm |
Pen ek Ratanaruang, Last life in the universe
(Thailand, 2003, 112 min)
A mysterious, obsessive-compulsive, suicidal Japanese man living in Bangkok, Thailand, is thrown together with a Thai woman who is his opposite in everything through a tragic chain of events.
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| GREEN ROOM (NATIONAL THEATER) |
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Zameleo Act & Cinematic Solution
13 half hour episodes of storytelling television, ‘Sigana Moto Moto’.
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