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The Green Room at the National Theatre.
11/05/2008 - 10:00

Movie: Goodbye Dragon Inn
Country:Taiwan
Director:Tsai Ming-Liang
Program:Contemporary World Cinema
Screening Program:Goodbye Dragon Inn
Venues:Green Room
Description:
Goodbye Dragon Inn
11/05/2008 - 14:00

Description:
For Xala, Sembene adapted his own novel: A government official, "El Hadji,” on marrying his third wife, on his wedding night is struck with a ‘xala’, a curse of impotence.
10/05/2008 - 10:45

Movie: Mon Oncle d’Amerique
Country:France
Director:Alain Resnais
Screening Program:Mon Oncle d’Amerique
Venues:Green Room
Description:
Prof. Henri Laborit (played by himself) uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety.
10/05/2008 - 09:10

Movie: The Brother from Another Planet
Country:United States of America
Director:John Sayles
Program:Parralel Pathways
Screening Program:The Brother from Another Planet
Venues:Green Room
Description:
A fresh vantage point on modern life is offered through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth—in Harlem, naturally—and is taken in by the regulars at a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?
10/05/2008 - 18:00

Movie: Keiskamma – a Story of Love
Country:South Africa
Director:Miki Redelinghuys
Program:African Panorama
Screening Program:Keiskamma – a Story of Love
Venues:Green Room
Description:
In the Eastern Cape hamlet of Hamburg a fully-fledged war is being fought by grandmothers, the hospice, the good doctor Carol and Eunice for hope, human dignity and the will to live.
08/05/2008 - 11:00

Movie: Primer
Country:United States of America
Director:Shane Carruth
Program:Contemporary World Cinema
Screening Program:Primer
Venues:Green Room
Description:
At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices when they stumble on something beyond imagination.
08/05/2008 - 10:00
Movie: Megumi
Country:Netherlands
Director:Mirjam Van Veelen
Program:Contemporary World Cinema
Screening Program:Megumi
Venues:Green Room
Description:
In1977, the Japanese school girl Megumi disappeared off the face of the earth as if by magic. Thirty years later, the family and the acquaintances of the girl are still stunned.
08/05/2008 - 08:30

Movie: Muna Moto
Country:Cameroon
Director:Jean Pierre Dikongue-Pipa
Screening Program:Muna Moto
Venues:Green Room
Description:
The film provides an unsparing view of village life and traditions while capturing the fateful constrictions brought about by custom.
08/05/2008 - 07:00

Description:
The film follows a cart driver through Dakar as he scrapes together a living. The cart driver’s reflections are offered as voice over while the different people he meets en route.