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The fourth edition of
the Amakula Kampala International Film Festival, a celebration of
film from around the world, was animated by the theme of Travels,
Transit.
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Workshops & Symposia |
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Gathered into the primary sections:
African Panorama, Regional Focus on the Cinema of
Eastern Africa, Contemporary World Cinema and
Landmarks.
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Includes amongst others The
4th Annual Congress on East African Cinema, the 2nd
East African Film Critic's Workshop and Film Dissection
- looking past the Magic of Film. |
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Performances |
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Includes a wide range of Border
Crossing storytelling performances, multi-media and dance
shows, and as every year the famous VJ Slam.
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Through the Lens shows
photographs made by children of Uganda from various districts
exploring their world through the lens of the camera. |
Video Lounge
As in previous festivals, programmes will be presented every day
in the Video Lounge which will occur at the Alliance Amakula,
upstairs at the National Theatre. A separate calendar schedule will
be posted for screenings which will be drawn from a range of areas
including: New East African Television, African Exploitation:
Cinema Advertising, The Inside Out Head Trip: 50 years
of Psychogeography, Before Take Off: Creative Advances
in Airline Cinema, The Home Movie: When Far From Home,
The Travelogue Spans the Globe, Expanded Television
Travels: Jacques Cousteau and NASA space programme, and The
Comparative and Recombinatory Odysseys.
Amakula Mobile Cinema
This yearwe will take Travels, Transit on the road with
its Mobile Cinema bringing highlights from the festival to locations
all around Uganda replete with translations into the local language
of the area visited. For the month of June the mobile cinema will
make five separate tours, setting out from Kampala each time in
a different direction. The Mobile Cinema will take the festival
theme quite literally, traveling the country and expanding the festival
well beyond the city limits. The festival will navigate a set of
journeys, west; east, south and southwest, north and northwest in
order to form various community collaborations around the presentation
of films from the festival along with local music and storytelling.
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