Amakula Mobile Cinema

The Amakula Kampala Mobile Cinema was established in 2006. Since its establishment it has covered the country in order to bring the annual festival films to a broader audience which has no chance of attending the event in Kampala. The mobile cinema creates custom programs for each community for which it collaborates with local representatives from these regions to organize translations into local language, appropriate venues and publicity. The Mobile Cinema travels every year to locations with which it has built up a solid relationship while regularly adding new communities and languages to its roster. The Mobile Cinema also moves around Kampala, maintaining programs for schools and collaborations on specific issue oriented presentations formulated with other local organizations seeking to promote a more dynamic dialogue. The Amakula Mobile Cinema can be requested by organizations who wish to offer specific films and discussion programs to their target groups. Anyone interested please contact the organization at info@amakula.com.  

Cinetoil Partner

In addition to its regular activities, this year the Amakula Mobile Cinema is presenting a special program through the Cinetoile Project which is supported by Africalia (Belgium). Under the Cinetoile banner, a program of 5 films established at last year's FESPACO festival in Burkina Faso will be screened in 10 villages and towns by participating partners throughout Sub-Saharan Africa until the 2011. Cinetoile seeks to promote the importance of the Mobile Cinema effort throughout Africa as well as establish a groundbreaking network that will allow for increased collaboration across the continent. Amakula Mobile Cinema will bring the Cinetoile project to 10 districts in Uganda, where we will organize weekend-mini festivals each month including screening of the films and workshops focused on distribution of films using the existing infrastructure of video halls and community centres.

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AMAKULA MOBILE CINEMA- 2011

......................................Wednesday August 10th, 2pm – 6pm

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Shooting Dogs, Michael Caton-Jones(Rwanda, 2005, 111’)

Joe Connor has come to Rwanda because, like thousandsof other young westerners, he is certain that theclichéd images of a war-torn, ravaged continent tellonly half the story -- and that he can make a differenceto the lives of ordinary Africans. The school echoes withlaughter and vitality, as Joe inspires his brightest pupil,Marie and the other children.

Mandabi, Ousmane Sembene

(Senegal, 1968, 90’) 

This is a story of a man who receives a money order and,in his attempts to cash it, encounters an intimidatingbarrage of Third World bureaucracy, becoming a wittymasterful portrait of an ancient civilization in the throesof change. The film is a warm, subtle comedy with aseries of visual revelations about a civilization strugglingto recapture its own rich heritage after a centuryof colonial corruption.There will be a workshop on the essentials of Africanfilm facilitated by film makers chosen by ZFF. Studentsof film will benefit from the workshop and screenings.

......................................Wednesday August 17th, 3pm

St Hellen’s Rubaga Nursery School

The Lost Tribe, Belay Workney(Ethiopia, 1997, 13’)

Using archival footage and dramatic re-creation of therescue of Ethiopian Jews, Ethiopian filmmaker BelayWorkneh tells how he survived persecution, attacks, theCivil War, and hunger in Ethiopia. In one re-createdscene, Belay's uncle had to pay fifteen dollars for each ofthe bullets that killed his son; without such paymentthere would be no hope of claiming his body.

O Grande Bazar, Licinio Azevedo(Mozambique, 2005, 58’) 

Looking for the young thieves who have stolen hismoney, the twelve-year-old Patio leaves the suburbwhere he lives to go into the city. In search of a job, hebegins to go to the big market which at night is transforminginto a dormitory for homeless peddlers. Hesoon shows an innate flair for trade but the thieves thatare following him are always lying in wait for him.