The image of Europe that exists in Africa of the continent of opportunities does often not resemble reality: once there, most immigrants hardly can make a living. Two years ago, Ssuuna Goloba, a Ugandan who lives for 4 years undocumented in Europe and wants to return home, approached a film production company in Amsterdam with his desire to make a film that shows his people at home what life really is like for him and fellow immigrants. The result, Surprising Europe is an international cross-media project that aims to contribute debate about immigration from Africa to Europe and consists of a 7 part TV series, a website and a documentary. Producer Rogier de Wit together with Ssuuna Goloba will show their work in progress and discuss the experiences of Ssuuna and other migrants.

This film follows a band of refugee Congolese musicians in Cape Town who are evicted from their home one week before a countrywide xenophobic violence displaced 30,000 refugees.
These films will form the basis for a discussion on xenophobia, the fear for strangers and discrimination towards others which marginalized people in every society experience, with a close look at how this manifests itself in Ugandan society.

This documentary focuses on the discrimination which refugees and asylum seekers in Cape Town experience in their everyday life.

This documentary follows two expectant mothers in the process of delivery one from the traditional birth attendant and another in hospital.
In spite of having initially trained traditional birth attendants in modern midwifery skills, the ministry has now decided to phase them out saying that they contribute to the escalating death of mothers during pregnancy and child birth. Does midwifery indeed pose a threat or do they actual have a crucial role to play.

In this film ordinary men and woman from Harare from different walks of life and age groups are asked various questions pertaining to sex and sexuality and speak out openly about their sexual experiences.
Just as in Zimbabwe speaking freely about sex is not part of Ugandan culture. But a deeper understanding of human sexuality and sharing knowledge and experiences of sexuality is essential in campaigns against HIV/Aids, human rights and social issues.

Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Communication and the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University and an authority on African Cinema with several publications on the subject under his name) will host a one day seminar titled African Cinema: From the earliest beginnings to Nollywood. In this seminar he will address the history, theory, practices and criticism of African Cinema and expand upon African/Third World Perspectives in relation to the dominant practices and media.