| 50 Years! Of Love? African Hoop Dreams Amour, Sexe, et Mobylette Awaiting for Men Behind the Rainbow Bonjour (Waramutseho) Cuba, An African Odyssey Fahrenheit 2010 From a Whisper A History of Independence (Il était une fois l’indépendance) Killer Necklace Mascarades Memory Places Nollywood Babylon |
Princesa de Africa Rachida Seapoint Days Sektou (Ils se sont tus…) Sex, Okra & Salted Butter (Sexe, Gombo & Beurre Salé) Skin Sleepwalking Land The Positive Ladies Football Club The Yellow House (La Maison Jaune) Touki Bouki Victoire Terminus War Games Wrestling Grounds (L’appel des arènes) |
| 50 YEARS! OF LOVE?(CAFF 15)Directors: Karin Slater, Steven Bartlo. South Africa 2008. 86 mins.”There’s nowhere in our society to learn about how to keep a marriage together. We are just told fairytales about living happily ever after… ” It is this absence that is addressed by this amusing and moving documentary. An around the world trip by the filmmakers takes us to couples married for 50 years in the USA, South Africa, Holland and India. The resulting portraits are frank and truthful, touching on subjects as diverse and taboo as adultery and polygamy or as straightforward as communication and the fear of divorce.Inviting us on a personal journey beyond the ‘happy ever afters’ of marriage fairytales, 50 YEARS! OF LOVE? will make you laugh, cry, and think again about the difficulties and beauty of living your live alongside another human being.
This film is being screened as part of the *FREE* LOVE AND SEX IN AFRICA! Late Night Screenings at the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Tuesday 3 November, 9pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. FREE SCREENING! |
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| AFRICAN HOOP DREAMS(CAFF 15)Director: Eric Drury. Senegal/Angola/US/South Africa 2007. 54 mins.AFRICAN HOOP DREAMS is a unique and timely film which takes viewers on a tour of discovery to reveal the present-day hope and excitement that surrounds the game of basketball on a continent which promises to change the landscape of the sport forever.We are delighted to welcome director Eric Drury to the screening for a Q&A. Saturday 7 November, 3pm, St Paul’s Community Centre, Hills Road. FREE SCREENING!
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| AMOUR, SEXE, ET MOBYLETTE(CAFF 18)Directors: Maria Silva Bazzoli, Christian Lelong. France/Germany 2008. 95mins.Composed of many, interlocking stories, this docu-fiction tries to get to the heart of what love means to the people living in a small town in contemporary Burkina Faso, in the middle of the Sahel. Tracing youthful desire and the wisdom of age, the nostalgia of widows and the excitement of the engaged, the film is resolutely focused on African experiences of love, but the question it puts to us, the viewers, is universal: ‘What do we do with our stories of love?’ It explores a dynamic African context, affected – like any place today – by globalization, where Valentine’s Day is a date on the calendar, and where Brazilian soap operas inspire different dreams of love in thousands of people.This film (alongside AWAITING FOR MEN) is being screened as part of the *FREE* LOVE AND SEX IN AFRICA! Late Night Screenings at the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.
Monday 2 November, 9pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. FREE SCREENING! |
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AWAITING FOR MEN(CAFF 15)Director: Katy NDiaye. Belgium/Senegal 2007. 56 mins.Situated in the extreme east of the Mauritanian desert, it is the peculiar red-walled city of Oualata that is the setting for Katy Ndiaye’s languidly paced documentary. Within the walls of these colourful buildings on the edge of the Sahara, three women gaze at us through the camera and talk about their lives, their loves and their views on the relation between the sexes. From within this seemingly traditional and male-dominated society, these women express themselves with a surprising freedom and candour.Intercut with evocative images of sand, landscape and the human form, the three women’s stories are braided together to create a visual and aural collage of life as a woman. Pieced together with few interventions or questions from the interviewer, the three women’s responses slot together, sometimes in harmony with one another and sometimes in stark juxtaposition, creating a three-way dialogue that draws us into its centre.This film (alongside AMOUR, SEXE ET MOBYLETTE) is being screened as part of the *FREE* LOVE AND SEX IN AFRICA! Late Night Screenings at the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Monday 2 November, 9pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. FREE SCREENING!
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| BEHIND THE RAINBOW(CAFF 15)Director: Jihan El-Tahri. Egypt/South Africa/France 2008. 124 mins.Winner of the second prize for documentaries at FESPACO 2009, BEHIND THE RAINBOW is, refreshingly, a film about South Africa not by a South African, but by an Egyptian female filmmaker. This ‘outsider’ perspective brings an incisive and analytical approach to the film’s subject – the history of the ANC, and, in particular, the relationship between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Jam-packed with interviews with ANC members (including Mbeki and Zuma), as well as carefully selected archival material, the film is at turns surprising, hilarious, and inspiring. If it does nothing else, it will get you debating the pressing issues facing contemporary South Africa for hours after the screening. With the recent (September 2009) attacks on the social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo (the Durban Shackdwellers’ Movement), which appear to have been led by an ANC member, the film provides an invaluable background (and perhaps warning) about the consequences of the ANC having turned from a liberation movement with a broadly socialist agenda into a capitalist and, at times, corrupt organisation.Although we regret to announce that director Jihan El-Tahri will not be able to join us for a Q&A, we are delighted to welcome Mark Ashurst, director of the Africa Research Institute, to take questions after the screening.
Saturday 31 October, 6.45pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
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| BONJOUR (WARAMUTSEHO) UK PREMIERE(CAFF 15)Director: Kouemo Yanghu Bernard Auguste. Cameroon 2008. 21 mins.Set in Toulouse, France, this film looks at the Rwandan genocide from a new angle: two close Rwandan friends have to deal with the atrocity, and their families’ implication in it, from a distance.This film is part of the New African Shorts screening.Saturday 31 October, 2.15pm, Arts Picturehouse.
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| CUBA, AN AFRICAN ODYSSEY(CAFF 15)Director: Jihan El-Tahri. Egypt/France 2007. 118 mins.This documentary investigates the involvement of Cuba in the African wars of liberation since the 1950s. It examines the impact of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s internationalist agendas on the African countries in which they involved themselves: the Congo, Guinea-Bissau and Angola. Director Jihan El-Tahri, who also narrates the film, draws on a tremendous range of startling archival footage in order to illuminate the ways in which the politics of African nationalism and decolonization were inextricably bound up with the competing interests of the Cold War superpowers, the USA and the USSR. Perhaps most impressive, however, are the film’s interviews with those who were intimately involved in these events. There are none of the soundbites, superficial glossing, or evasiveness familiar from many documentaries: instead those interviewed offer surprisingly candid commentaries, contributing to this fascinating account of an important historical moment.We regret to announce that director Jihan El-Tahri will not be able to join us for a Q&A.
Sunday 1 November, 2.15pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
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| FAHRENHEIT 2010(CAFF 15)Director: Craig Tanner. South Africa/Australia 2009. 75 mins.Over four weeks in June and July 2010, South Africa is hosting the football World Cup – the first time the tournament has been hosted on the African continent. It promises to be an event of immense symbolic importance, as the former pariah nation of the Apartheid era can now celebrate its national pride and unity – to the largest international television audience ever to follow a single event.FAHRENHEIT 2010 seeks to cut through the hype and address what the World Cup means for South Africans themselves. It exposes concerns about jobs, evicted communities, and corruption, raising questions about long-term growth and development: what will happen to all those new stadiums once the tournament is over? This insightful documentary investigates whether, in a country where millions live in poverty, the citizens themselves stand to benefit from the World Cup. Some of those interviewed are cautiously hopeful, whereas others are more pessimistic: one sociologist speculates that the empty stadiums –the so-called ‘white elephants’– could become symbols of popular disenchantment once all the excitement is over. FAHRENHEIT 2010 considers all sides of the debate, featuring international heavyweights like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and FIFA’s Communications Director, alongside interviews with South African workers, traders, students, politicians and sports celebrities.Thursday 5 November, 6.45pm, Arts Picturehouse.
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| FROM A WHISPER(CAFF 15)Director: Wanuri Kahiu. Kenya 2008. 76 mins.The award-winning Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu brings us a thoughtful and lyrical but also bold tale. FROM A WHISPER commemorates the terrorist attack on the American embassy in Nairobi in 1998, which left over 250 people dead and more than 5,000 injured.Tamani is a young and rebellious girl, whose mother went missing during the bombing. Desperate to achieve some kind of emotional closure on the traumatic events of her childhood, Tamani tries to express her pain and confusion through street art, restlessly roaming downtown Nairobi and leaving hopeful and hopeless messages for her lost mother. Chance, luck and sympathy teach Tamani that she is not alone in her suffering. The characters of this at once delicate and violent film are brought together by their different experiences of the tragic event.
In FROM A WHISPER, the trauma and the devastating effects of the blast are explored not through the ones that died, but the ones who survived. Beautiful visual style, interesting storytelling, superb acting and playfulness with time and space add up to a compelling and touching film which juxtaposes suspense with the fragility of our physical and emotional existence. We regret to announce that Wanuri Kahiu is no longer able to join us for a Q&A. Monday 2 November, 6.45pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
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| A HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCEUK PREMIERE (IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS L’INDÉPENDANCE)(CAFF 15)Director: Daouda Coulibaly. Mali 2008. 22 mins.Through this fable of fifty years of African independence, the young Malian director Daouda Coulibaly reveals why he has earned the title “the new Ousmane Sembene.”We are delighted to welcome director Daouda Coulibaly for a Q&A.This film is part of the New African Shorts screening. Saturday 31 October, 2.15pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
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| KILLER NECKLACE(CAFF 15)Director: Judy Kibinge. Kenya 2008. 40 mins.Based on a comic by Alfred Muchilwa, this short romantic thriller by one of Africa’s top female directors will keep you on the edge of your chair until its surprising conclusion. All is not what it seems in this spooky and twisted little tale of love in a modern African city. With its sharp and unusual visual style and rhythm, animated soundtrack, and exploration of class difference, KILLER NECKLACE forms part of a ‘new wave’ of African filmmaking that is resolutely energetic and urban. | Monday 2 November, 2.15pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
| MASCARADES(CAFF 15)Director: Lyes Salem. Algeria 2008. 92mins.This colourful first feature length film by the young actor and director Lyes Salem presents a vision of Algeria refreshingly different from those images that may have occupied our cultural imaginary until recently.Set in a small village somewhere distant and deserted in the mountains, MASCARADES is a funny and often farcical tale of love and lies. Mounir and Rym are brother and sister: Mounir is proud, outspoken and desperate to be valued in village life, while Rym, beautiful and charming, is a narcoleptic and a source of amusement for all that surround the pair. One evening, returning drunk, Mounir announces that a rich, foreign business man has asked his Sleeping Beauty sister to marry him… Tall tales spin higher and higher, and Mounir must run to keep up!Simply constructed and with a humourous rhythm, Salem’s prizewinning film is beautifully shot. The colours and shades both of human behaviour and the glorious textures of the landscapes are rendered with a clarity and insight that make MASCARADES a film not too be missed.
This film is part of the *FREE* LOVE AND SEX IN AFRICA! Late Night Screenings at the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Thursday 5 November, 9pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. FREE SCREENING!
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| MEMORY PLACES(CAFF 15)Director: Piotr Cieplak. UK 2009. 18 mins.A documentary made up of photographic stills depicting memorial sites commemorating the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The film explores five memory places, their significance, history and the way outsiders can experience them.We are delighted to welcome Piotr Cieplak to a Q&A after the screeningThis film is part of the New African Shorts screening.
Saturday 31 October, 2.15pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
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Credit: Samir Mallal © 2008 National Film Board of Canada Credit: Samir Mallal © 2008 National Film Board of Canada |
NOLLYWOOD BABYLON(CAFF 15)Directors: Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal. Canada/Nigeria 2008. 74 mins.This in-depth look at the southern Nigerian video film industry – now officially the world’s second largest, churning out over 1,500 films a year – will change your perceptions of filmmaking forever. ‘Nollywood’, as it was coined by the New York Times, now makes more films than Hollywood, and comes only second to Bollywood in output. These films are made straight onto VHS or V-CD, making them affordable to Nigerians and to Africans all over the continent, whose imagination they have captured. NOLLYWOOD BABYLON, with a swift narrative pace and sizzling soundtrack, goes further than other documentaries on Nollywood in the way it tries to excavate what is really at the core of Nollywood’s popularity. What emerges is a complex image of Nigeria today: a country with widespread poverty and problems, but also immense creativity and energy.Wednesday 4 November, 2.15pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
| PRINCESA DE AFRICA(CAFF 15)Director: Juan Laguna. Spain 2008. 80mins.Princesa de Africa investigates an unusual cultural encounter: a white Spanish dancer named Sonia marries a Senegalese musical director, Pape Ndiaye. But Pape already has two wives and several children back in his home town of Louga: how will Sonia fit into this picture? The film centres on Sonia’s visit to Senegal, primarily focusing on the relationships between the various women concerned. It documents the tensions, but also the possibilities, that this peculiar situation offers Pape’s wives, his daughter Marem, and Sonia.The film’s overall tone is upbeat, affectionately capturing the atmosphere and daily routines of the Ndiaye family home. Yet controversy continually lurks beneath the surface, especially in the impressively-mounted dance sequences. If Sonia can put on Senegalese costume and learn dance movements relatively easily, then is it really possible for her to be integrated into the culture as a whole? How sustainable are Pape’s attempts to balance two sets of cultural values which appear to conflict? Can something be lost, as well as gained, in inter-cultural encounters? The film raises complex questions relating to issues of identity and gender – questions which we learn are not easily answered. PRINCESA DE AFRICA is a challenging work, often encouraging the viewer to speculate as much about what is not onscreen, as what is.
This film is being screened as part of the *FREE* LOVE AND SEX IN AFRICA! Late Night Screenings at the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Friday 6 November, 9pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. FREE SCREENING! |
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| RACHIDA(CAFF 15)Director: Yamina Bachir-Chouikh. Algeria/France 2002. 100mins.Inspired by a fait divers during the worst years of terrorism, Yamina Bachir’s first feature-length film is the beautifully compelling tale of Rachida, its eponymous protagonist. Through the experiences of this young schoolteacher as the victim of a terrorist attack and by her subsequent flight to the countryside for safety, RACHIDA evokes both the terror and fortitude of the Algerian people throughout the 1990s. Accompanied by her mother, she starts to live again. Even in the tranquillity of the mountain village, however, she is haunted by the figure of the terrorist. Can Rachida, and all those around her, resist the fear?We are delighted to welcome director Yamina Bachir-Chouikh for a Q&A after the screening. Tuesday 3 November, 6.45pm, Arts Picturehouse. | |
| SEAPOINT DAYS(CAFF 15)Director: François Verster. South Africa 2009. 93 mins.This documentary about the Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town is shot in and around the municipal swimming pool complex which acts as a focal point for the area’s diverse set of inhabitants. It’s a public space which attracts black and white, old and young, wealthy and poor; people from a variety of religious, sexual and cultural backgrounds; those with homes and without, the employed and the jobless; each with a unique perspective on South Africa’s past, present and future. Once a bastion of racial exclusivity in the Apartheid era, Sea Point is now a space in which personal and interpersonal identities are irrevocably intertwined. As people take off their clothes to swim and sunbathe, the film captures an infinite spectrum of human forms: dark, pale, thin, fat, muscled, flabby, sunburned, sexy, unsexy, youthful, aged. Sea Point is a space of equality, but everyone retains individuality.Or that, at least, is the idea – for all is not what it seems. The swimming pools, carefully filtered and chlorinated, focus our attention on the difference between surface and reality. Attempting to clear away a homeless person’s belongings buried underneath the beach sand, one volunteer asks, ‘shall I call Cleansing?’ The desire to promote a sanitized public image of Sea Point, emphasizing an easy, melting-pot multiculturalism, often clashes with the complex reality that the film reveals. For tensions – racial, economic, social, sexual, religious – are plentiful amongst the area’s inhabitants. Fusing the magically dreamlike with the viscerally realistic into a memorable cinematic style, the film follows the Sea Point residents as they deal with – or fail to deal with – issues that reflect the broader challenges facing the country as a whole. Beautifully shot, incisively directed, and carefully paced, SEAPOINT DAYS is neither optimistic nor mean-spirited, refusing to pass simplistic judgements. At one point, a homeless man remarks that above all else, he loves performing. And the film as a whole conceives Sea Point as a theatre in which the inhabitants are constantly re-negotiating the roles they play.
We are delighted to welcome producer Lucinda Englehart to introduce this film screening. Wednesday 4 November, 6.45pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
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| SEKTOU (ILS SE SONT TUS) UK PREMIERE (CAFF 15)Director: Khaled Benaissa. Algeria 2008. 17 mins.Winner of the prize for Best Short Film at Fespaco 2009, SEKTOU takes the viewer on an exhilarating, dream-like journey into the psyche of contemporary Algeria. “Is a lack of activism and an excess of zeal going to endanger the country’s liberty?” Benaissa asks.This film is part of the New African Shorts screening.Saturday 31 October, 2.15pm, Arts Picturehouse.
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| SEX, OKRA AND SALTED BUTTER (SEXE, GOMBO, ET BEURRE SALÉ)(CAFF 15)Director: Mahamat-Saleh HarounThe acclaimed Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun returns with this brilliant, bittersweet family satire about the conflicts inherent in modern life and the battle to satisfy one’s individual and sometimes selfish needs while retaining traditional values which might be less relevant than they seem.A Bordeaux-based immigrant from Mali, Malik, finds his grip on reality slipping fast as his young wife Hortense runs off with an oyster farmer and his son Dani turns out to be gay. Left to look after his two young kids and, horror of horrors, run a household all by himself, Malik is forced to reevaluate his views on the way life should be lived. Will his stubbornness and strong commitment to tradition allow him to reach any constructive conclusions?
SEX, OKRA AND SALTED BUTTER is a hysterically funny comedy, packed with thickly drawn characters and delicious humour. In some ways, it is strangely reminiscent of early Almodovar movies. However, the silliness and laughter are underlined by real and serious issues about cultural assimilation, gender, family and racial stereotypes. This film is being screened as part of the *FREE* LOVE AND SEX IN AFRICA! Late Night Screenings at the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Wednesday 4 November, 9pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. FREE SCREENING! |
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| SKIN(12A)Director: Anthony Fabian. Starring: Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill. UK/South Africa 2009. 106 mins.Based on the incredible life story of Sandra Laing, a woman born dark-skinned to pale-skinned parents in apartheid-era South Africa, SKIN challenges assumptions about race just as it stirs up empathy for its tragic but tough protagonist (Okonedo). In 1954, Sandra Laing was born into a racist system which classified her as “coloured” even though her parents were classified “white”. Her father (Neill) goes to court to prove his paternity and argues that his daughter’s appearance is due to what is known colloquially as a “genetic throwback.” He succeeds in having Sandra legally classified “white”; but being classified “white” in a country that is only interested in surface appearances does not help one to escape the brutality of racism, and Sandra suffers the consequences. We are delighted to welcome Margaret Matheson, producer of SKIN, to conduct a Q&A after the screening.
Thursday 29 October, 6.30pm, Arts Picturehouse.
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| SLEEPWALKING LAND (TERRA SONAMBULA)(CAFF 15)Director: Teresa Prata. Portugal/Mozambique 2007. 96 mins.It is the early 1990s in Mozambique and the Civil War is over. In the young Muidinga’s search for his mother, he finds more than he was bargaining for.Sunday 1 November, 6.45pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
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| THE POSITIVE LADIES FOOTBALL CLUB(CAFF 15)Director: Joanna Stavropoulou. Producer: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Zimbabwe 2009. 30 mins.THE POSITIVE LADIES FOOTBALL CLUB is a testimony to positive living and the universal theme of strength through adversity. A group of HIV positive women, all seeking treatment at an MSF clinic in a Zimbabwean township, decide to form a football team, ARV Swallows, to fight two stereotypes: that HIV is a death sentence and that women cannot play football. After an initially shaky start the Swallows start winning matches and make it through to the finals of the HIV positive women’s football league. But despite their successes, the women have to carry on with their treatment and daily lives. The difficulties of living with HIV are ever-present for these women.Saturday 7 November, 2pm, St Paul’s Community Centre, Hills Road. FREE SCREENING!
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| THE YELLOW HOUSE (LA MAISON JAUNE)(CAFF 15)Director: Amor Hakkar. Algeria 2007. 83 mins.“Is there a medicine for sadness?” This is the question asked by Mouloud, a Berber peasant living with his family in the remote Aurès mountains, following the accidental death of his son while away on military service. Mouloud, played by the director, sets off on his motorised tricycle to collect the body from the nearest city. When he returns, he discovers his wife in a deep depression and tries to lift her mood with touchingly naïve gestures of his love, including painting his house yellow! A poignant and heart-warming tale of loss and devotion, Hakkar’s simple film is one of great beauty, both of the human spirit and the Algerian countryside.We regret to announce that Amor Hakkar will not be able to join us for the Festival.
Friday 30 October, 6.30pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
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TOUKI BOUKI(CAFF 18)Director: Djibril Diop Mambety. Senegal 1973. 85 mins.This classic African film – a Senegalese road movie that is often compared to Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969) – revolutionised African Cinema. Prior to TOUKI BOUKI, African Cinema was dominated by a social realist aesthetic pioneered by the so-called ‘Father of African Cinema,’ the Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene. Then the autodidact Mambety came along, preaching the need for ‘madness’ and ‘dreaming’ in the creation of cinema, and with his African avant-garde style exploded all assumptions about what an African film should look like. In its newly restored version (by the Cineteca di Bologna), TOUKI BOUKI tears up the screen with the desires of its young protagonists, Anta and Mory, who spend their days exploring, making love, and trying to steal enough money to get to Europe, against the backdrop of urban Dakar and a resonant soundtrack punctuated by the plaintive voice of Josephine Baker singing about ‘Paris’.Touki Bouki has been restored by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation under the auspices of the director’s son Teemour Diop Mambéty. The restoration has been carried out by Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory in May 2008.Sunday 8 November, 4.15pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
| VICTOIRE TERMINUS(CAFF 15)Directors: Renaud Barret, Florent De La Tullaye. France/DRC 2008. 80 mins.Amid a culture of misogyny and violence against women, Judex, a former boxer, works against all odds to train female boxers in Kinshasa. As the 2006 DRC elections rage in the background, Judex’s trainees prepare for the tournament of their lives.Monday 2 November, 2.15pm, Arts Picturehouse. |
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| WAR GAMES(CAFF 15)Director: Marc Allen. Producers: Marc Allen and Heather Baker. Sudan 2005. 45 mins.WAR GAMES is an intimate portrait of a community, recently devastated by war, struggling to put itself back together again and to stage an Olympic games (called the Twic Olympics) for thousands of children from the surrounding villages. The film follows the organisers as they struggle with broken goalposts, hungry players, and the constant threat of bombing by the Sudan government, all in scorching daily temperatures upwards of 50 degrees Celsius. The beauty of this film is that it shows the humour and energy that Sudanese people are investing in this Olympic enterprise, in site of the war raging in the country. The people we see are anything but victims – they are movers and shakers. The film was a hit at the LA Amnesty Film Festival and has been screened on BBC World in 52 countries.We are delighted to welcome co-producer Heather Baker for a Q&A.Saturday 7 November, 3pm, St Paul’s Community Centre, Hills Road. FREE SCREENING!
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| WRESTLING GROUNDS (L’APPEL DES ARENES)(CAFF 15)Director: Cheikh Ndiaye. Senegal 2006. 105 mins.A fiction film based on the novel by celebrated Senegalese writer Aminata Sow Fall, WRESTLING GROUNDS takes the viewer into the beautiful and complex world of the Senegalese national sport – wrestling. The film follows 19-year-old Nalla (Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye) in his growing obsession for the sport, and examines the consequences of this obsession. The cinematography is like choreography – a dance, backed up by a brilliant, energetic soundtrack. This film, which was selected for the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, is literally a pleasure to behold, and has a gripping storyline to boot.We are delighted to welcome the director Cheikh Ndiaye to a Q&A after the screening.
Saturday 7 November, 7pm, St Paul’s Community Centre, Hills Road. FREE SCREENING! |
Official Festival Review - TAKE ONE
