UBUNTU! FILM FESTIVAL, OCT 21-25, 2009
The Ubuntu Film Festival offers 14 edgy, sharp and warm films, all of them investigating and scrutinizing the theme of the festival, the relationship between Africa and Europe. After some of the films you will be able to engage in discussions with some of the directors who are attending the festival.
TICKETS
Film tickets: 65 SEK
Opening film ticket: 100 SEK
Film breakfast: 3 films + breakfast Sunday 25 October: 150 SEK
Films and seminars incl. coffee and sandwich: Why Democracy, Saturday 24 October: 150 SEK
Tickets for the Rio Cinema are sold at www.biorio.se
Tickets for the cinema Klarabiografen are sold in the entrance hall 1 hour before screening.
FESTIVAL PASS / MEMBERSHIP CARD
A personal festival pass or a CinemAfrica membership card is required and must be shown together with the movie tickets for every screening. You can buy your festival pass at the cinema. For CinemAfrica membership, please contact our office at 08-411 62 40 or Den här e-postadressen är skyddad från spamrobotar, du måste ha Javascript aktiverat för att visa den . Membership costs 150 SEK per year.
SCREENING SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY 21 OCT
6 pm, Cinema Rio
VICTIMS OF OUR RICHES
Kal Touré / Mali 2007 / French (subtitled in English) (Swedish premier) (Director in attendance)
Every year hundreds of thousands of Africans try to get to Spain, Italy or Greece from Africa. Some of them succeed but many others are forced to return to their countries, humiliated. Many die. It is tremendously difficult journey undertaken under the threats of abuse, torture and rape. In “Victims of our Riches” we meet some of those who tried.
The film is followed by a Q&A with the director Kal Touré.
8 pm, Cinema Rio
THE WEDDING SONG
Karin Albou / Tunisia, France 2008 / 100 min / French, Arabic and German (subtitled in English) (Swedish premier)
Nour and Myriam grew up together, they played together on the same backyard and between them developed a warm and intimate friendship, almost a romance. At the time of the Second World War the Nazis occupy Tunisia and suddenly the friendship between a Jew and a Muslim are no longer viewed kindly.
THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER
5.30 pm, Cinema Rio
THE DAMNED OF THE SEA
Jawad Rhalib / Belgium, France, Morocco / 2008 / 70 min / Arabic, Swedish and English (subtitled in English)
“The Damned of the Sea introduces to those who lost out when the fishing trade was globalized. Local fishermen and unions are powerless against strong international actors taking over their waters. We also get to meet the Swedish fisherman who explains why it became necessary for him to move to the coast of Morocco.
The film is followed by a discussion between Concord and the Swedish Society for Nature Conversation about EUs humanitarian aid policy.
5.30 pm, Klarabiografen, Kulturhuset
SOLDIERS OF PEACE
Tim Wise / Australia / 2008 / 85 min / English (subtitled in English) (Swedish premier)
There is an outbreak of peace claims the documentary “Soldiers of Peace”. The film is based on “The Peace Index” according to which the number of armed conflicts is diminishing and peace is expanding. Through positive examples and interviews with, among others, Desond Tutu, Hans Blix and Bob Geldof, the film aims to inspire action. Narrated by Michael Douglas.
8 pm, Cinema Rio
FROM A WHISPER
Wanuri Kahiu / Kenya / 2008 / 100 min / English (Swedish premier)
(Director in attendance)
The point of departure is the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi. Tamani has spent a big part of her life looking for her mother who disappeared on the day of the bombing, ten years ago. “From a Whisper” is a powerful and emotional account of longing, grieving, accepting, understanding and finally forgiving.
The film is followed by a Q&A with the director Wanuri Kahiu.
FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER
8 pm, Cinema Rio
VICTIMS OF OUR RICHES
Kal Touré / Mali 2007 / French (subtitled in English) (Swedish premier) (Director in attendance)
Every year hundreds of thousands of Africans try to get to Spain, Italy or Greece from Africa. Some of them succeed but many others are forced to return to their countries, humiliated. Many die. It is a tremendously difficult journey undertaken under the threats of abuse, torture and rape. In “Victims of our Riches” we meet some of those who tried.
The film is followed by a Q&A with the director Kal Touré.
7.30 pm, Cinema Rio
MASQUERADES
Lyès Salem / Algeria, France 2008 / 94 min / Arabic (subtitled in English)
A twisted wedding farce about Mounir who lives with his family in a small dusty Algerian town where he has had a hard time gaining the respect of the others. His sister suffers from a severe narcolepsy which makes Mounir an object of ridicule and worsens his chances to get married even more. Until the day an Australian loaded with money turns up.
SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER
FILMS AND SEMINARS: WHY DEMOCRACY?
1 pm – 5 pm Cinema Rio
Democracy – what does it mean? Can it be measured, defined, secured? Can democracy grow or die? What does democracy mean to you?
Panel: Maria Lessner, Democracy Ambassador; Wanuri Kahiu, Filmmaker. Joe Frans, President of Forum Syd
Moderator: Camilla Bengtsson, Sida
(The seminar will be held in English)
FILMS:
Iron Ladies Of Liberia (Siatta Scott Johnson, Daaniel Junge, 53 min) is the story of the first female president in Africa, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and her first turbulent months in power.
We are Watching You (Jehane Noujaim, Sherief Elkatsha, 53 min). A story about three chain smoking highly educated women going on a crusade against the limitations of Egyptian democracy.
Kinshasq 2.0 (Teboho Edkins, 11 min). A partly animated film about the difficulties facing an politician of the opposition in Kongo Kinshasa.
Don’t Shoot (Lucilla Blankenberg, 11 min) is a film about South Africa’s most famous news reader and his responsibility for the news he delivers – if there is one – and have delivered since the Apartheid days.
Coming of Age (Judy Kibinge, 11 min) The film follows the development of democracy in Kenya through the eyes of a girl as she is growing up.
SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER
FILM BREAKFAST
Please Note: we have changed the start time for Sundays film breakfast. The new time is 10.30am.
10.30 am – 2 pm Cinema Rio
Sunday afternoon CinemAfrica and Cinema Rio invites you to a film breakfast with coffee, the, sandwiches, yoghurt and three films.
FILMS:
Waramutseho! (Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu, Cameroon, France 2009, 22’)
The year is 1994, Kabera and Uwamungu are best friends who study and live together in France when one day the hear on the news that the President’s aeroplane has been shoot down back home in Rwanda. What would become the worse genocide in history has begun and the two friends find themselves on different sides of the enemy line.
Mother (William Mbaye, Senegal, 2008, 55‘)
A tender and proud portrait of outspoken, wise and deeply committed 82-year-old Annette Mbaye d’Erneville, a.k.a Mère-bi (Mother). She is the first trained Senegalese journalist as well as a poet and for decades a well-known personage in the public debate. The story of Mère-bi is also the story about contemporary Senegalese history and of the liberation movement in Africa.
From a Whisper (Wanuri Kahiu, Kenya, 2008, 100 ‘)
The point of departure is the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi. Tamani has spent a big part of her life looking for her mother who disappeared on the day of the bombing, ten years ago. “From a Whisper” is a powerful and emotional account of longing, grieving, accepting, understanding and finally forgiving.
The film is followed by a Q&A with the director Wanuri Kahiu.
