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Archr,,e F lrns lntemational Shors Art of SurviYal 1 8 Justice #*F Ask Me l'm Positive 18 Keeping tt Real Belonging -:-j 12 Kuxa Kanema - Brrh :' : nsdonsl film €nd Ud6o loundaiion Beneath the Stars 8 Last Victory. The

Beyond Reason 24 Lucky Jack: Three v. OO BRITISH Born g Attempts to Stop U into Struggle Smo(ng OO COUNCIL Bus 1 74 32 Man who loved Haugesund The Capturing the Friedmans 33 Meaning of the Buffalo, The Cinderella of the Cape Flats 12 Memories of Rain PRO HELVETIN Citizen King 33 l\4etallica: Some Kind of Monsl3- Il- E- I ARTS COUNCIL OF SW ZERLAND Control Room 34 Mix REPUBLIQUE FRANqAISE Corn ln Parliament 30 Nick goes to Nollywood RrTSA Corporation, The 34 No 17 -<-tiziErr- Death in Gaza 26 Perfect Human, The

Ethiopia: A Journey with Michael Buerk 19 Riding Giants

Fisherman's Tale, A 19 Shiny Stars, Rusty Red SABC(.l)'".n,.n'"''''^ Five Obstructions, The 35 S21: Khmer Rouge Killing l\4ach ^.

Freedom is a Personal Journey 20 South African Love Story: Walter t : :=- - Game over: Kasparov and the Machine 36 Sisulu Haiti - End of the Chimeres? 31 Spirits of the Uhadi

History Uncut 1 6 Story of a Beautifui Country, The '/ Home of the Brave, Land of the Free 36 Tania Raised Us Hopes on the Horizon 26 Through the Eyes ol my Daughter Hot Wax 1 3 To Live is Better than to Die \r- House of Saud, The v 31 Touching the Void SPECTRUM 38 Umgidi VISUAL NETWOEKS lkhaya I 3 Voice 0ver lK0N SA Volume 2 20 GUEST D|BECT0RS biographies are to E s 38 found on pages 8 - 10 & 43 - 51 Welcome to the 6th With0ut funders we would not be able to host this special event We hearti y thank the National Film and Video Foundation and CEO Eddie Mbalo for supporting the Festival for Encounters South African the next three years lt is this kind 0f stability which will encourage other tunders to support us Thank you to both Jean September and the British Council, and Margriet Leemhuis and lnternational Documentary the Boyal Netherlands Embassy who have been supporting the Feslival forfive years A Festival. very special thanks to Miqam Asmal and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Gouncil They co- founded this Festival as the Swiss South African Festival in 1999 and are Iunding us this year We welcome the support 0f Laurent Allary and the French Embassy, BASA and Holland We have the pleasure of offering you over 60 films, every,thing from a 6 m nute short to a 145 rhanks 0 to our commercial sponsors: Kate Hanison and Jameson Whiskey who, minute feature. Et- l tfitnirO y running, are supporting the Audience Awardl TempesV Sixt Car Hire for Each year South African filmmaking becomes more dtverse, in depth and challenging providing carst and TNT for moving our freight A big thank you to Nlco van der Menwe and Together with more training initiatives, more funding sources and more broadcaster slots for Cinema Nouveau screened by Nedbank, our cinema partners, and Bonald Henry at documentaries, we looklontrard to increased genre years activity in the for many t0 c0me, Spectrum VNS for supplying the digital screening systems This year we present a record number of South African films, 26 recently produced films, Steven Markoviz and Nodi MurPhY three 0f which are World Premidres and another 17 films from the vaults of the National FESTIVAL DIRECTORS Film and Sound Archives

As the industry grows so does the Festival Last year almost 1 0 000 people attended the TICKET PRICES: H25 Festival and now we see documentaries entering the mainstream 0f the films in our line up Usual concessions for Movie Club and Discovery three wiil have theatrical releases in South Africa During the Fesliual Farenheit g/1 1 will be Vitality apply but these credits may not be used to purchase released in S0uth Africa At the time 0f writing this, the film has opened in about 1000 Encounters Film Festival lickets theatres in the USA- a record for a documentary Audiences want a real experjence documentaries are delivering this, and provrding as entertaining as any feature film out there

This year we celebrate a Decade of Democracy by screening 8 films from the SABC / NFVF / Binger series - Proiect 10; two of Afravision's History Uncut; and a collection from the BOOKINGS: National Film and Sound Archives, ADVANCE Cinena Nouveau screened by Nedbank Visa and MasterCard No cheques We are pleased to welcome a number of lnternational guests (see pages 49-51), some of Ster-Kinerkor Contact Centre telephone bookings:086 1300 444 whom will be giving workshop seminars on documentary filmmaking Please see page 6 of C1nputicket: Any valid credit card, No cheques, this programme to see where and when place lhese will take Computickettel 083 915 80 00 We are very proud to welcome the Best of INPUT at Encounters brought to you by SABC INPUT will bring the best of pub ic broadcasting from around the wodd t0 our cinemas and t provide the space for important discussions and debates, We ook forward to a long a fruitful E IIG'U ilT E RS relationship with SABC and INPUT Encounters is the producer of the Enc0unters South African lnternational Documentary Festival and functions independentlV oi Ster-Kinekor, Close Encounters runs concurrently v/ith the stival in Cape Town. V/e are pleased t0 screened by Nedbank and Computicket welcome6filmmakerswhowill betakingpart theBlackonWhiteseresthat |rrl beY ly Cinema Nouveau produced in conjunctron with SABC 1 Encounters reserves the right t0 cancel 0r reschedule screenings without prior notice In additlon there will be the Prelrminary sessions of the 2nd Documentary Co-production Tel:021 426 0405 Forum Here a large number of f lmmakers rrrrl be pitching t0 a panel of commissronrng Fax 021 426 0577 editors producers and distributors Sonte prolects w ll be selected to go foru,rard to the DCF info@encounters co za held at Sithengi in November www encounters co,za 4 I E lIG'U ilTE BS black on urhite 6th Soulh Atlcan lnternalional OocumenlarV FesIval SITHENGI FILM & ln 2003 Encounters held a number of workshops, two of which became a platform for ti:Y:::l"Y*[:] rn. 2nl sourhem Atfican r examining personal identity, the legacy of apartheid's racial classifications and the opportunities available to filmmakers in post-apartheid South Africa The consensus, llocumentaru G0-[]0ducti0n lorum tllGII "talcnlng perception, was that white filmmakers make films about both whites and blacks and that [loleGts am Dr0adc0ste]6" black filmmakers make films about blacks only. Black filmmakers do not make films aboul* The{.lumentary Co-Production Forum (DCF) is a joint initiative between Encounters whites only slegs blankes. - t DoJentary Festival and Sithengi Film and Television Market to provide Southern And so Black on White was conceived a series of 50 minute documentaries to be made - Afrlcan documentary fllmmakers the opportunity to find local and international broadcast part by black filmmakers about whites - as of the Close Encounters Documentary Laboratory, and co-production pai'tners

BLACK ON WHITE IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN Last year the 1 st DCF proved to be a tremendous success We had the participation SABC1 . Encounterc . Fuzebox Productions . 0-dacity Films of the all three SABC channels and 8 projects received commitment from the broadcaster and two of the projects were selected for The Forum at IDFA The six filmmakers, and their films, selected for the Laboratory are: Preliminary Pitching Sessions 2004: SIPHO SINGISWA lnja Yomlungu - CT: Sat 24th July, SABC Beach Road. Jhb: Sat 31st July, SABC Auckland Park' 0MELGA MTHIYANE - Different Pigment Those selected for the Preliminaries will be pitching to a panel of international funders YUNUS VALLY - The Glow of White Women and producers and local broadcasters, producers and distributors KHADIJA IVAGARDIE - Black Girls Spit, White Girls Swallow Those selected after the Preliminaries will participate in Consultations to further develop VINCENT lVOLOl - Men of Gold theirprojects Theywill beautomaticallyselectedfortheDCFatSithengi Certain REHAD DESAI - The Heart of Whiteness projects will be submitted to The FORUM for international co-financing of SAM PoLLARD will act as the Head Trainer for the Black on documentaries (IDFA) White Laboratory sessions. The final selection of projects for the DCF at Sithengi will take place in October Sam Pollard's accomplishments, as a feature film and video Projects with either 20o/o of their budget secured, are eligible Filmmakers will pitch editor, a documentary producer and directo( span almost thirty to a panel of 10 international Commissioning Editors years. His first assignment as a documentary producer came in

1 989 0n Henry Hampton's series Eyes 0n The Prize ll. He Final catt for submissions For funher information received an Emmy for one episode. As co-executive Deadtine for atl submissions from 5A and Africa contact: Taryn da Canha producer/producer of Hampton's last documentary series /11 - ConsuttaLions in Jhb and CT T6l: +27 21 430 81 60 Fox: +27 21 430 8'l 86 Make Me A Wortd, Sam received The George Peabodv Aw! Pitching Workshop in cT product@sithongi co za Southern African Fitm & TV Market in Cape Town He edited a number of Spike Lee's films: Mo'Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Cl1ckersand SiLhengi M sithengi co za Banboozled. Sam and Spike Lee also co-produced documentaries including Sptke lee Encounters / Sjthengi Documentary Co_production Forum Presents Mike lyson, for which Sam received an Emmy, and Four Little 6lrls which was nominated for an Academy Award. Sam is currently a Professor in Film Studies at New York

t.Jniversity Tisch School of the Arts. Workshops The Department of Arts and Culture and the National Archives of South Afrjca congratulate CONCEIV!NG A DOCUMENTARY THE PROBLEM OR THE STORY! - the Encounters Documentary Film Festival on SPEAKER: MARIJKE JONGBLOED (Biog page 50) their sixth successful festival. We are happy CT Monday 26th July,09:00-l2:30, Victoria Junction Hotel to paftners This workshop will explore the foliowing areas: Choosing the style for a documentary Iilm - be official of the Festival in this, the collecting facts and figures that will create a discourse, or looking for a compelling story tenth anniversary of Democracy in South Developing a concept, research methods and a shooting scenario for a documentary film, Africa and the fortieth anniversary of the National Film Video and Sound Archives. Documentary films are vital SPEAKER: JIHAN EL IAHRI (B 0q page 49) historical resources CT: Monday 26th July, 1 4:00-1 7:30, Victoria Junction Hotel and This workshop will explore the following areas: Producing hstorical documentaries that have form powerful reflections of resonance for understandrng contemporary politics and society How to make history the progress and problems relevant to today through documentary films Why its necessary and important to produce of our society. For these historical documentaries reasons The National PHILOSOPHISING ON FILM ,9 Archives is proud to SPEAKER: PETER LIECHII ( Biog page 50) = co-operate with the CT Tuesday 27th July,09:00-12:30, Victoria Junction Hotel Encounters Documentary This workshop will explore the following areas: The documentary as interpretation and nol s Film Festival. The screening 'objective' filmmaker position reality. ln making a documentary where and how does the of historic footage from the her/himself, how do they treat the protagonist? famous African Mirror series, held by the TELLING OUR OWN STORIES National Film Archives and courtesy of the SPEAKEB: ONYEMTCHI WAMBU (Biog page 51) and KG0M0TS0 MATSUNYANE SABC, shows how an unequal and distorted (Editor 0 l/agazine) society perceived and projected itself. They CT: Tuesday 27th July,14:00-17:30, Victoria Junction Hotel are nevertheless historically and technically This workshop l,^/ill explore the following areas: What does it mean to speak of 'African fascinating commentaries, However, they stories'? How does one document, broadcast and distribute African stories? Department of What does one learn from Alrican stories? And, the importance ol memory in the highlight the need to reflect the experiences Arts and Culture Atrican contexl. of all sectors of our society and the need to focus on the transformation of our nation. For more information and registration details for these workshops Current documentary producers can only contact JOAN LEGALAI\iIITLWA ! t CLOSE ENCOUNTEBS DOCUMEI,ITARY I.ABORATOBY do better. Tel: 021 426 0405 The National Film Video and Sound Archives Fu 021 426 0577 has been preserving this material for forty I nf [email protected] www,encounters.co.za years and we look forward to preserving Book now as seating is limited current documentaries for future generations. I world premiEre rrorld premi6re Beneath the Stars TITTI JOHNSON AND Born into Struggle FELIXSON South Africa/Sweden 2004 video 1 00nin HELGI South Africa 2004 video 80nin Titti Johnson was Dir: Titti Johnson, Helgi Felixson Dir: Rehad Desai born in Sweden This is the world premiere of an engaging This is a brutally honest and deeply in 1965 She and remarkable approach to a social personal portrait 0l the painful familial scars problem studied that exists in our midst, and is left behind by a key member of the photography, judged harshly, feared, little even but i ,qqle. Set against a much larger political understood ilis#:1T3 f.oroo, this intimate detail explores the ln 2003, Freda Darvel was a 19-year-old reasons behind, and consequences of, life graduated in street kid that sniffed glue with her choices 2000 from the boy,friend Boeta Claassen But she can sing. School of and she is plucked from the streets by the Photography and Coca Cola Popstars competit on Freda is Film in Goteborg immediately elevated to national stardom University, Her with everyone wanting her to sing, in recent films, Laura & Dr Z|vago \2000) and restaurants, on planes, in shops Once the Th1nas Johnson was my brother (20021 Rehad Desai completed a history competition is over, Freda returns to lhe were shown at a number of international in Zimbabwe. 0n his return to harsh "normal" life of the streets degree film festivals. South Afrlca, he became a media and The film subtly displays Freda's emotional Rehad Desai spent most 0I his life in exile Helgi Felixson training officer for the South African attachment to her friends and surroundings, political was educated in due to his father's constanl activity and how she becomes a celebrity pawn trade union movement and completed theake and film lnstrumental in stalwartly maintaining his Masters in Social History at WITS But nothing changes until, Irustrated, the pressure in Sweden He internati0nal 0n South Africa's filmmakers offer her a real chance University. He worked in HIV prevention was active as an Apartheid regime, Barney Desai was a hero Courtesy ol the Diectors before entering the world of film and actor, producer to many but a strict, distant authority figure television as a producer/director in and director in to his family A disparity reflected in the 1 996, where he focused his energy on different theatre careers chosen by Rehad and historical and socio-political groups belore his siblings productions. He has directed and turning to This absorbing story produced My Land My Life and filmmaking, For is centred on the the last ten years he has been the director personal development Dilemma, as well as an internationally ol lde Film in Stockholm His company of Rehad that leads to broadcast talk show - Down to Eafth. specialises in large scale co-producti0ns'' intense political He is an Executive Director of the Thre€ both in documentaries and fiction for tl! activity in the UK, Continents Film Festival and a board Nordic and international market, His recent Zimbabwe and then, member of the regional filmmakers'

feature length films include The Condor Man while accompanying his father in 1 990, organisation, SACOD, Uhuru and My Name was Sabina Spierein and South Africa; thus repeating the cycle Productions in Johannesburg is his Return to freedon in 2002 Courtesy of Uhuru Productions own production company.

Fri23l8pm rr Sat3l /745pm Thu22l8]spm r]t Sal.ll,8Dm i - Thu 5 / 6 rsirm 'J "l 11 rri 6rz+som J[! 'I O rruorld premi6re A Decade TONI STRASBURG Toni grew up in South Africa and went t0 ENCOUNTERS CELEBRATES 10 YEABS OF Britain as an exile in 1965, DEMOCRACY of a She is an award winning documentary Documentaries are a reflection of a society AS part 0f the Festival,s celebrati0n producer where we are as director, and writer who has Decade ol Democracy we have selected a number of films that reflect going also worked as an lnternational Peace a society, where we have come from and where we are l\i onitor and Election Observer for the AR.HT,ES ARE ouR colLEcrrvE South African Love Story united Nations, Q,:nSlUoNAL present titles - Walter and Albertina ln partnership with the National Film, Video and Sound Archives we will Sisulu thatreflecthowfllmhasbeenusedaSapropagandatoolbypro-andantl.apartheid South Africa 2004 video 63nin filmmakers, south African Di: Toni Strasburg Encounters will screen a selection of early Archive films - African Miror, key historical events ahead of the main This touching story of the Sisulus is not just a Mirlr att focussing on - we have come, and will give you a taste 0f testament to the political endurance of one of features. on how far in a South African cinema from the 1920s to South Africa's most celebrated couples. lt is a what you ced sitting personal story of bitter struggle, harassment, the 70s, The Bifth of Crnema which takes an and painful separation endured through the We will al feature lhe Iilm Kuxa Kanena - National institute of cinema in the patience, hope, moral courage, and love of important I k at the role of film and Mozambique's the Sisulus, lt reflects a very private history struggle for freedom, that is integral to the political turmoil of South PROJECT 1() Africa in the 20th-century, showing the deep REAL STORIES FROM A FREE SOUTH AFRICA personal cost that brought South Africa t0 its Her film career began in 1 981 as a films, to develop This series was an initlative to deliver strong, personal, nanative driven current triumphant harmony director where she specialised in social and to a new generation of South African lilmmakers, brave enough to take risks and able political documentaries, She spent much of the late 1980's and early 1990's i bY the Natlonal Film and Video documenting wars in Southern Africa, the n directed bY innovative, Young on concentrating largely on the effects trY, Encounters is screening 8 of women and children, the 13 filmmakers and we are proud welcome the filmmakers to the festival Her work ranges from writing, developing Chronologically this documentary starts at and directing documentaries, teaching HISTORY UNCUT political struggles o{ the very beginning, and charts the growth of workshops for young filmmakers and as an The Alravision video collective played a central role in covering the their love and respect for each other, their i. ;e 80s and 90s. Thev produced numerous groundbreaking documentaries and community, the people, and humanity lt il:""X','#''HT ?; J i#Hlilll: [, b lITupptreO images to news agencies throughout the world, Their 8000-hour archive is offers a human perspective on some of the of water t0 a rural village in South Africa, housed at the MaYibuYe Centre, key moments in a resistance that sowed the has won a number of awards including Encounters features two of their pieces from the recent setles History Uncut- seeds of this nation, best documentary at the Apollo Film ,moments'ofkeyeventsWehavechosentofocusonthefuneralofSamoraMachelin Campaign' Couftesy of X)XA/Realtime Pictures Festival 2003, 1 986 and Mannenberg during the 1 989 Defiance - 12 I .o south alr TC an films south at1r,9tn films Belonging Cinderella of the Cape lkhaya Sauth Africa South Africa 2004 video 52nin Flats 2004 video Dir: Minky Schlesinger and Kethiwe Ngclbl South Africa 2004 video 58nin 50tnin Born in Brtain in exile, in a p0 itically divided Di. Jane Kennedy Dir:0melga cbmmunity, Kethiwe Ngcobo dreamt of Mthiyane returning to South Afrlca where she thought "When you leave she would finally llelong But when she '1 a place that you returned in 994, the land, extended famiiy, love so much, it takes time for the heart t0 culture and customs remained alien to her, forget' Ten years ago, Zimbili Kamanga fled And with her British accent modern values Hot Wax the spiral ing daily horrors of ethnic and and attitudes, she to them South 2004 video 48nin political violence around her Depot home, 0n This uplifting documentary sweeps us along Afica Dir: Andrea SpiD the outskirts ol Bhambayi (where Ghandi in the growing excitement at the one time in her own formulated his response of passive the year when Cape Town's 86,000 textile lvy is a beautician running year-out she resistance) workers are consumed by a joyous and successful business, Yearin, 'mada"ns ln Bhambayi, a decade later, has become a innocent distracti0n: the annual 27th Spdng Takes tf,e ricn mostly Jewish great She vibrant dislrict where government f'ousirg 0ueen pageant, Johannesburg look and feel details of their schemes promise to build a bright future for Concentrating on Rex Truform, Kennedy shares the most intimate about follows and delves into the contestant's lives, She goss ps with them, cares gives them Ten years later, nothing has changed: dreams and aspirations, 0ur excitement them, and sound advice To her "l smile, I laugh and I joke, but I don't really grows as each contender competes against is the best connect with people," she says With her her colleagues - learning to shimmy down clients, she around son's future in mind, Kethiwe embarks on a the catwalk, lose her inhibitions, choose the therapist - the bodY physical and emotional journey of self- all-important dress, and hold her own rejuvenating discovery as she struggles to find a place amonq scores of other contestants, First, in and the spirit no hollow that she can call home The journey takes front of her home But lW is board Being her to London and back, and through a crowd, and then, sounding her traditional tilual, ukwenula, before she before the whole her client is to take on lvy herself - She breaks its residents, But, the lmpact of the reaches her emotional destination industry views, her knowledge, her life mbili down racial and social boundaries lrloodshed has run deep, and Aunt Z Courlesy of SABC 1 Offset against the finds it difficult to overcome her fear of the s0ct0-ec0n0mlc and allows these women of financial into her district's histor'/ reality of the substance a rare and real insight people place lrr Alexandria. Revealing the comfoft still seeks ;i;y;,|':;t VuYax is an inttmate. heaTt warm I I the powers of Zulu tradltions, lkhaya are crossed to place the memories 0f pain and terror rr Cape Flats is a documentary where bridges the gL istl the past \rhere they lle 0rg ie the kaleidoscope of fun and frivolity, masking a and deep kiendships forged under 'r'/h quest sti ugg 0 i0r a frttlll e contintles new economic reality in silk and sequins of a superftctal for lleallty of SABC 1 Catt'les| of SABC 1 Courtcsv Couftesy of SABC 1 llof l!) 7:5rfr a Sun l8 / 8pm < m SLn 18 / 6pm lru29/6lspm / r SLnl/8pn [.i]3 t0'rtr >- r> I llir il w'o+ioi;JE- - S ,f 'u=outh .tl rc.o an films south at1r8-r, films The Meaning of the Mix Through the Eyes of mY Umgidi Buffalo South Africa 2004 video 52min Daughter South Africa 2004 video 74min South Africa 2004 video 6lmin Dir. Budzani Dzuguda South Africa 2004 video 48min Di: Siph1 Singiswa and Gillian Schufte Dir: Karin Slater ln 1 994, South Africans experlenced two Di: Zulfah )tto-Sallies The ceremony sunounding male very different freedoms: emancipati0n from circumcision plays a very important role in oppression personal 'a and liberation of traditional Xhosa culture lt is considered a .l expression. The youth 0f S0uth Africa selZed rite 0f passage - a cause for comrnunal celebration when the ancestors are evoked, '.31 :lJ:L"""'#: llf :il;i:l JI'IH ?h) and the community pays respect to the the second Parents didn't often agree with initiate's family }I the choices they made Being tlvo self-confident, female, hip-hop DJs, Tumelo and Dominique cannot reconcile their very modern life-style choices with the conservative expectations In the remote North'West village of of their Iamilies, Their families are equall\i Lekgophrng, the Balete people cannot bemused, unable to remember why they are inextricalrly linked relate to the children This film is both a gentle celebration oi a to their totem, the Buffalo As a r,rild ife that they once knew, child by her parent, and a rare insighl into a lncarcerated on Robben lsland during the filmmaker S ater has a strong and almost A stalemale exists as Iamily enriched by an old and colourful Struggle, Sipho viewed the ritual both as an fatal buffalo past that has mysterious y party neither seeks community, whose identity is adapting t0 a act of resistance (when circumcision was drawn her t0 this dusty, drought-ridden to bridge the new generation in a very different world viewed as "damaging state property") and land generation gap. 0tt0-sallies is intrigued by her fifteen year as an ancient rite that had to be conducted At first, the villagers are ret cent; stupefied Set in the ultra cool old, lvluneere, Displaying all the in a haze of but cunous as to why a whtle woman is so hip-hop culture, Dom characteristics of the typical teen, secrecy and lnsistent on knowing the "secret" legends, and Tumelo are trying to find themselves, alternatively embanassed by, performing for, brotherly folklore and praise poetry of their totem remaining defiantly dedicated to their free and indifferent to the camera, we follow suppo( Ten Frustrated by a missing book, a s ck chief, passion, existence and musical Muneere for a year as she comes into her years after ign0rant youths and reluctant elders, Slater Couftesy of SABC 1 own and explores her options the Struggle persists, enlisting the help of local Both mother and daughter were raised succeeded, and with his son in mind, Sipho shopkeeper, Buffalo Bill They launch a within the same conservative tradition, wants lo commemorate his transition into competition that inspires the community to relioion and environmen[ 0f the historic B0- manhood with an announcement cerem0ny uncover i[s heritage This extraordinarily intimate look at this Gently humourous and wonderfully l:.' ffi ii,Tjf [,,H',ii'.T?,ffi'ff,] ancient, and continuingly controversial, p0ignant, this beautifully shot film observes daughter being filmed it becomes a initiation into manhood shows how modern the Balete reclaim the rich heritage, beliefs, brave exploration of home, values, and attitudes and family expectations often stories and redemption of their f0refathers, difficult choices conllict with individual choice

1 Couftesy of SABC 1 CouftesY of SABC 1 CouftesY of SABC

'hJ 18/7.45Pm Sun 1B 6.150m < rn 22, I0 15om Sun 18/ /450m a m Sun Sur 25 8.45pm - I r ri 30 / 9.45pnr [,40n[rnn26l6nm 26 / 6bm '/r I salsal3l 31 //B45om B 45pm ured4 /B30pm Mon 2 /6 lSpm D- JhB JhB sa' 7 /8pm .o 'u=outh ,t1. TC an films lms HISTORY UNCUT Kuxa Kanema: The Birth ln the 1 980's the Afravision Video Collective of Cinema South Africa 1978 video 20min was formed to offer a rea ist c perspective Poftugal/Mozambique 2003 video 52nin Fr med by the Film Service of South Africa 0f the troubles around South Africa and Di. Margarida Cardoso during the 1 970s this clever and insidious neighbouring countries Due to its content propaganda aimed at righting ln liberating the People's Republic o' frlm is a film much of this footage has never been shown propaganda" Mozambique, Samora lVachel faced the task the wr0ngs of "anti-apartheid Hist0ry Uncut is the footage as it was of delivering a geographically and tribal11' Iilmed lvith no nanative, but its uncut disparate nation from poverty. 1le nrrnQf Forward to a People's format a loiv" the viewer to absorb this the power of film to drive this nation Republic history \v thout prejudice building agenda by creating The National South Africa 1981 video 20nin Manenberg lnstitute of Cinema .ln the beginning, Kuxa Filmed in 1981 on Freedom Da\/, this South Africa 2004 video Kanema travelled Mozambique's slmple, yet effective, film sh0ws the brave 26min considerable length capturing the image of political resistance that lived deep withln a the people and delivering it back to them. powerless comrnunity ln 1989 to coinc de with the white-only frustrated, seemingly lvlozambique was dragged into a odds general electons. a nass national campaign But as that is faced by insurmountable debilitating civil war by the nefarious liberation speakers incile a of defiance was launched in the form of a Courageous activities of Rhodesia and South AIrica, hope church to spiritual and stay away Confined to an upstairs r00m, huge and crowded gives way and political rhetoric footage Irom the anti-apartheid a common cause: this footage follows the state's retributi0n to disillusion It displays moral deliance towards becomes more important than social claiming that the 'staged" lVembers of the Arrogant po ice prowl the streets, wielding films of the time, "freedom in our lifetime" development. "staps Dlack man of their ANC mantras and shamboks and firing birdshot irages the congregation chant image their belief in the indiscriminately into the increasingly irate dignity" lt iuxtaposes any negative songs, as emotional about and their beliel in crowds who gather and erect barricades with groovy, professional, weallhy Struggle as they are about blacks at work and home in their God lveanwhlle in Durban, in a highly- Couftesy of Afravision Video Collective contented sprawlrng, modern suburbs, lt rolls outTV polished display of pomp and ceremony, the personalities, a university chancell0r and entire military might 0f Apartheid South ?:#i,:":,:;::H to advocate the huge Africa is being paraded for all to see even Christian Barnard possibilities that exist for blacks in As the speakers become more of the education, health and the media passi0nate, honest representations military torce ts 0n 20 October 1986, the Mozambique's Using an ingenious mixture of outright violent reality behind the presidential plane part photographic images of crashed rnto a remote mockery and exaggerati0n, this dishonest revealed in of of South Africa (whose government was presentati0n attempts to gloss over the real repression through force and fear, disoe'sing b amed, but never admitted guilt), To his ' rems of apartheid Darkly arnusing ir settrng dogs onto cl''clren and Bescuing the original footage. this with teargas people, l\,4achel was more than a leader, he a maslerfLl lesson in lwisting peaceful c0ngregations enthralling account of our mysterious ftight, rt was a national hero, and this is evident in l, Film Video and th-e truth it a Political agenda. CouftesY of National neighbour is a superb metaphor for the to the outpouring oi grief, the long patient of South Africa & of National Film Video and Sound Archives and ensuing tragic CouftesY queues of mourners, and the internalional thwarted socialist dream Afravision Video Collective Sound Archives of South Africa dignitaries in this footage ol his state Iuneral, history of lVozarnbique Archive Filnls scrcen wlh Htslory Uncul: Manenber] Couftesy of Afravision Videl Collective Couftesy of Filmes Do Tejo The -j Tue 27 / 6 I Spfr Manenberg screens wilh Archive Sat 1 7 / 8pm Tue 20 / 8pm Tue 2l I I 15pn , mr zz / 6pm + Panel Discuss 0nl .--SailDra lilachel Funeral scree]s wilh Kltxa Kanema St IPPtts ,yih HStOrv Uo(ul MaCnPt Funent crr' bJspm lil6 qdspr ; il w.oalopm + PafelDrscussroniSatT /6pn1 .f " I Screens t/ilh H$lary Uncul Machel Funeral l8south atrican films scDuth alrican films Ar.t of Survival Ask me, I am positive Ethiopia: A Journey with A Fisherman's Tale South Africa 2004 video12 nin SA / Lesotho 2004 video 50nin Michael Buerk South Africa 2003 video 26nin Dir: Shedreck Mapasa Dir. Teboho Edkins :; UK 2AA3 Video 89min Dir. Riaan Hen

Clfford Bestall is unusua , The successful Steps f1r the l-uture is a :, This ster ing directorial debut an pop personal c0llection of films from the southern African ' 1 984, a huge collaboratton between sensitive and tribute t0 the parents, region, lt tackles, with fascinating diversity, siars and world media mobil sed an director's Unab e to communicate wishing a the reality of living with HIV/AIDS. .,fTecedented attempt t0 save inn0cent wlth his father, but t0 find the filmmaker seizes his father's This thought-provoking road movie ta(7 connection, joins the Steps programme through its obvious- fishing lines and the crew of a snoek miserably as a fisherman he educational extension lt shows three HIV- boat, Failing poetically the chores, rituals, To many the prison system in S0uth Africa posltive young men lvoalosi, Thabrso and captures represents a horrifying world that we want uncertainty and dignlty 0f a hard llfe on the to forget lt is a necessary ev l, a home for society's misfits To others it is an existence where, da l;, the most difficult choices are made just to survrve Va0asa ente's a rolorious Cape prison and rnterv ews the male inmates, Adherjng Eth opians from famine The Geldof- t0 a nurnbers system, run on military lines, organised Band Aid and ensuing L ve Aid all rnmates are inittated rnto, and are bound Thabo, as they journey on the road to the and spofts Aid events, broke all records and part by, the law 0f three gangs that rule the most remote areas 0f Lesotho breaking the dlrected the spotlioht onto a forgotten prisons lts a dog eat-dog world, where a taboos and ignorance that surrounds the of Africa past offence against the gangs in another pandemic. With direct h0nesty they answer Twenty years later, l\,4ichael Buerk, the BBC prison will catch up with you, and gang pertinent and absurd, but all-important lournalist whose pass onate urgency tlroke generals decide who lives and who dies, the news 0n the famine n Eth opia, returns inmates and wardens altke, t0 meet the survivors, orphans and aid This particularly one-sided view of a violent workers that remain deeply scared by the presents element rn South AJrica's prisons will cause human cost lronically, with the cont nent's open ocean He als0 delicately the protracted and heated debate largest water reserves, Ethlopia is called the despair the subsistence fishing community 'water no means of Kalk Bay fee s as globalisat on, Couftesy of the director tower 0i Afr ca', but has government policy questions about their status As the journey t0 uti ise this vltal resource As a result, and commercial high and dry progresses, they share the disbelief fear today the situation has worsened and twice operations leave them any people are facing starvation Hendricks' emotiona eulogy offers a 3tl :Ti ,,;flffi,XiJ ;:Ji:Tlf:,:'.I, U honest, well-balanced documentary personal conversation to his parents, by reality of an discuss the problems inherent in living asks some tough questions of our role in bringlng to light the hardened ised f shing community positively and a deep desire to have a Ethlopia's deliverance and its on-going ncreasingly margina normal, honest relationship situation at the very tip of Africa www.riaandhftlns con Couftesy of Day Zero Productions CaurtesY of the directar Cauftesy of

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An i lusive concept freedom means many WINTER IS fJrJ,,, il'.','J:l[il',flnil1:.; past double lives of two th ngs to many people lvohammed Raln discusses the people: attempts to drscover the persona Jenny Cargill and Kevin Thandiswa lvazwai is the beautllul trendy interpretation of its meaning by two very 0hobosheane lead s nger of the Kwaito band, Bongo different characters who have been through Mufiin, Her music makes her a very modern the South African prison system role model Fe sty, yet broadminded, Seizing her own dea of freedom at a Madosini Manqina is an internationally young age lviriam embarked on a career of recognised, lrut locally unackn0wledged, petty crime, a path that ended behind bars custodian ol the ancient music of the with hardened profess onals To Gerlrude Each short film a concise and important amaXhosa She believes thal muslc's spirit freedom came through expression Her essay on what it means t0 be South African, echoes from the legend of creation deliance 0f tl'e governmenr larded he'ir lK0N South Africa displays three personal Thandiswa and lVadosini are icons of 'solitary'with a horrfying programme of histories that are inexorably tied to the South African music, but at the opposite interrogati0n, Both return to Pollsmoor t0 political and emotiona struggle for a ends of the spectrum ln this sensltive and discuss how incarceration forced them to democratic South Af rica engaging documentary, Thandiswa is find a way to create their own freedom Fi med through the eyes of the subjects this series offers diverse opin ons on the Jenny and Kevin played two very difterent, determined to recapture a heritage that she Courlesy of Maxi D Productions and heartbreaking implications of the violently yet vita, roles She was a white lournalist feels will contribute to her muslc and add to the drcclot enforced s0ciai structure under the from Durban, he a fifteen-year-old black boy her sense oJ belonging, But first, teacher Apartheid government The son of a leaving his grandmother to ioin the armed and pupil must travel t0 lVkhankat0 outside preacher takes up the communist ideal to struggle, Both became commanders ln the Umtata to initiate Thandiswa into the rural further the armed strugg e A teenager intelligence service of the ANC This traditions and rituals thal are an integral Voice Over decrdes to take up arms aga nst the absorbing documentary charts h0w two part of the culture's music Apa(herd machine The r armed-organ was South Afica 2004 video 6min people from dissimilar backgrounds Couftesy of Plexus W infiltrated with tragic and unexplained ,loped Dir. Shelley Barry lt analyses core influences, dinq their chi dhoods development of ln this slmple, but profound y effective, :;: :ffitT: ff i:X'fi?:.,:1'.*i:,.,p t poetrc presentatron, ideals, cata ysts to action, lives in exile, Barry speaks 0ut about South Africa and returned to ltaly with a return to a dual existence, and the constant the real ty of living w th a disability that young coloured lvife, also abandoned and threat of discovery impaired her ability to express herself living in exi e in Venice, CourlesY af the directors Couftesy of the dtrector Couftesy of Rainbow Circle Films Sat 24 / 6pm r .r Sat 24 / I 0 30Pm Fr 23 / 6pmi Sat ,/7 15pm; IVon 19 Bpm Fi 15pnr 3l r rr / 30 / 6 Fr 30 / 7.30pm , r' sat 3l / 6.1 5pm Feedon & Voice )vet screet) lagelher ' , Screens with A Fisl)etn)a]'s Tale ts N4on2/8pm T -r, JrF Sal 7/B15Dm(, li.) 22 south atrican films ?<-,- Tania Raised Us , \ ,,,,, t\ South Africa 2004 vi(leo 4Bmin I . \', Dir. Jack Lewis \=-:-- Swerving around Ihe ysternan on his horse- rnt€@t Publrc drawn cart is a common part of road life in rn lht leleYrsron Cape Town But, if you have ever wondered what cond s those norses live in, tnis :l:x1t3, ;::ffJl;;::XJTJ,"iip The Story of a Beautifut Country animals ln a tenuous but respectful, relationship with the SPCA, Boss Ely South Africa 2004 video /3mln employs and feeds a motley crew of ex- Dir: Khalo Matabane slreet kids l0 g.oom tne horses Balancirg Matabane returns t0 South Africa intrigued the cost of feed and the need for a profit by the beliefs, attitudes religi0ns, and wrth due consideration for the horses, Ely personalities that make people up the 0f the tries t0 keep the horses and kids alike in the "u'L "rainbow natt0n" Exploring the length and best conditions possible, breadth of this vast beautiful land he seeks out the "ordinary' South Afncan, intent 0n discOvering jL,st what being South African means, and what changes the last ten years have wrought He shows no discrimination, interviewing black cellphone-wielding yuppres, a proud co oured girl, a gun-t0ting member of the boeremag, teenagers sax players, and a hip, talkative mixed coup e He stipulates one extraordinary restriction: g the they can say an!,thing as l0ng as they are interviewed in the back of a moving combi No This intriguing device celebrates the dynamic beauty and diversity of our people as reflected in our panoramic, constanfly changing and spectacular countryside W'th obvious respect, Lewis presents e- Couftesy of Day Zero productions sensitive perspective on tne lives uro l. a desires 0f a community that scavenges for scrap and in doino s0, provides an essential For a full progr me and more details contact: sert/rce lNPUTNational Co-ordinator; Couftesy of ldal pictures SylviaVollenhoven, (083)413-1 6; vollenhovense@sabc,co.za SatlT/615prr r . Satl//6pm Fr30/6l5pnr / L Wed 28 / 6pn Wed 4 / Spnr .J ''. r.l "4 dutch focus dutch focus Justice Keeping it Real Netherlands 20A4 35nm 100min ..:':rlands 2004 video 52min Di. Maria Ramos Sunny Bergntan ln this despairing, yet enthra ling view 0f thi -: 'rodern ife becomes increaslngly unrea Brazil's justice system, Ramos' fly-0n-the- : rea ity becomes banal and bor ng, the wall documentary covers a I aspects of tria ..Derience' economy has sprung Lrp, Beyond Reason ; ared ro offerino authertic e'pe'ier' ,l1fl fl : il:',,.'L'J,.':i#i/i,1,11# ;' witl tr s. aro acknow edgrng r Netherlands 2003 35mm 100nin 1 Jgt,l0 with the vile and heaving remand cr ...f experrefl al weaknesses. bergma'l Dir: Marijke Jongbloed where prisoners chant songs 0n the many -.1 vers a hunrorous investigatlon i0to the young, As a idealistic and impressionable merits of justice j ched illusion of authenticity seventeen year pen old Gea became the SLrccessfulLy touching on very compllcated The Last Victory pa of Bryan Jennings, a man on death row lhernes, Bergman tries to unravel the true Netherlands 2003 wdeo BBntn in America detin tion 0f authentic reality tly uslng Dit'. John Appel Over a sixteen-year c0rresp0ndence that b zarre and incongruous examples An ex- T0 describe ll Palio as a h0rse raOe is t0 covers everything but the circumstances boyfr end is more genuine llecause he grew iken Tat)le lVou rta n to an inconsequential behind his incarceration, Gea becomes up in poverty in Africa and Theo s h llock He d lrr the very heart of tredieval emoti0nally attached t0 the sensitive, successfui and 'authentc" h0nleless tour 0f Siena ltaly thrs ancieni annual event introspectrve man Bryan has becorne the city means that his pride in a recent y insprres extrenre c0mmitment dedication, Frustrated by her helpiessness, she acquired flat rnust be kept secret A rugged and emotiont but mostly ndomitable pride compiles and publishes a b00k 0f the r Perceptively filmed, Ram0s interviews a bundu-bashin0 spons0red adventurer Although incredibly dangerous, this batt e is letters in order to raise the funds needed to career-oriented ludoe, a sympathetic and not fought between the jockeysi it's an reopen his case, and cornmute his sentence frustrated public attorney and a young, event that binds the community, pitching to life without parole But t0 do so, she must powerless suspect Highl ghting both the them into passl0nate inter-city rivalry learn about the crime he resolutely refuses social and financial discrepancies that exist, through a f erce display of pageantry At to discuss This brave, personal journey Ramos observes the plight of the 'criminal' three treacherous laps 0f the tiny Piazza del confronts the hideous truth of an as his future hangs in the balance We meet Campo the race lasts less than a minute; unremittingly bleak future lt is aiso about his family - his disconsolate mother who but it disrupts dai y life for six weeks and coming to terms with crime and chaileng ng loses herself in prayer, and the quiet devastates the losing districts for years a friendship to cross all barriers girlfriend who gives birth t0 their second Thls moving and lively film follows the Couftesy of H1lland Filn and the Directot child before his trial, Placed under the devotion and hope of 92-year old dign tary spotlight, Brazil's judicial process exposes_ Egidi0, the stable hand, andlle Capitano of Ihe contrada ol Civetta, unfur ing the story il ffl?i:ffii::i::'::i,x"iti iHb. reality in the name of social as the tangibie excitement grows police expectati0n and, based on his exanlple, a 2003 - lnternational Documentary Grand Pilx lor best film at Visions du prOfessional woman ernbarks 0n a self- Film Festival of Amsterdan (IDFA) Reel in Nyon 2004 discover ng solo voyages around the globe, Joris lvens award Couftesy of Selfnade Filns Couftesy of Viewpollt Productions Couftesy of Holland Filnl

Tue 20 / 8pm i .. Wed 2l / 6pfr Sal 17/9l5Pm Sal3l /6pnr I Sal 17 i 7 30pnr Sal 24 / 8Dm '' Wed28/730pnr S1eefis r/ilh I Used lo be a Flilnnkel $rpd ^8 R 'r,o-' Suf 1 Bpnr ,l 'l l1 , Fl 6 / 6 lSpnr "tJ lrritish focus lrritish focus the Void Death in Gaza Hopes on the Horizon Touching UK 2004 video 1 06min UK 2004 video 79min USA/UMNigeria 2001 video 120min Di Kevin MacDonald Dir. Janes Miller Dir: 0nyekachi Wanbu Based on lact this gripping film realistically The director of this film was killed whilst During the rniraculous ggOs, re-creates one of the most inaking it However, this powerful 1 accidents i't lhe n story of moullainee'ing documentary is not only about the rights concerted This is a nail-biting story of mental and and wrongs of the Palestine/ srael efforts bv civit physlcal hell, extreme pain, honific choices confrontation lnstead it presents an societv' 1; and a nightmare bid for survival, impa(ial v ew of the nf uence war has on tnr0uqn0ut Nigeria/UK 2004 vtdeo 60mtn the innocents Africa shook ofl Dir: Brenda Goldblatt & Alicia Arce the debilitating Nigerias' is the third largest filmmaking mantle that had ndustry in the world, producing over 800 plagued the films annually lt's fast and furious, but continent for so haphazard and with tiny budgets Driven lry long, Happening quantity not 0ua ity. the r0malticiaction gradually over ten years, this fascinating storylines are neither sophisticated nor f lm offers a cohesive analysis of the events dvnarnic, but they are comrnercial dynamite through the eyes of the people who initiated, witnessed and participated in the turbulent, revolutionary changes that have survivors, MacDonald arttully paints the a tered our continent for the better story of two climbers who, 20 years ago, Focusing on Ben n, Nigeria, l\,4orocco decided to climb the unconquered Siula Caught in the v cious circle 0f vio ence that I\i ozambique. Bwanda, and Soulh A{rica, ln steps aspiring director and slat ol Lock Grande, a remote 21,000J00t peak in the perpetLates the corrl ct th'ee chi drer in thls film uses interviews and key video Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, NicR Peruvian Andes After a successful three the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, allow us into footage t0 portray a new generation of lvoran Nick arrogantly embarks on a quest and a half-day ascent Simpson falls and their world The construction of the lsraeli- Africans that fought for democratic values to make an entirely Nigerian hil movie uslng breaks his leg Despite the risk to himself, guarded securily zone claims civilian lives against a backdrop of dictatorships, a Nigerian storyllne, Nigerian stars Yates is wtlling to drag Simpson out That is and homes, as the Palestinian param litaries corruption, economic ruin and military rule producers, crew, timeJrames, equipment, until, stlll attached, Simpson falls over an use every glorious death to recruit ch ldren [Jsing a theme specific to each country, the locations and situations But, he drastically abyss Thinklng Simpson is dead and and groorn them for martyrdom filmmakers balance historical precedents uncierestimates the quintessentla pace' wor'ied le would be draqged witf him The three children who assist the nightiy aga nst the astonish ng results, ncluding demands egos and ferocity 0f the industry Yates cuts Srapson tree What ensues is an excursions 0f the paramilitaries, are more fundamental changes in social structure, _ rs more than challenged by doing th ngs incredible tale of survi\/al against scared 0f their mothers than tanks, and p ay governance, u*o t, *O r*tt t0 the Nollywood work ethic lt's a insurmountable odds games that mimic the devastating tools of ,,,,:,#:,rh }tOing rollicking ride 0t a film with a moral. BAFIA Awards - Alexander Korda war, where the winner is a martyr - just because it's the African way doesn't Awad for Best Btitish Film 20A - Audience Award - Hot Docs mean it's the wrong way Evening Standad Btitish Film Awad 2004 - SILVERDoCS Sterling Award Courtesy of BBC and the diectors CouftesY of Ster-Kinekor Couftesy of HB) Documentaries lhL 2l l0 l50T < Sal / 9 450n: l t?3 1 | l\y'on 19 / 6 lspm Fri 23 / 6 lspm Wed21 /Bpm - i ' t Fil 30 !]5DT ^ Sd, 2J I0 15p11. Ffl 30 .150n Th!29/ m , Sun 25 / 6pm D Sa'l l0 l5or, 'I ' t' WPrl I bo- \lorz u r SunS/Bpm'-'l i I j lrrb/8nnr lrr 6 8 '.) 'l fr THE BRITISH COUNCIL IN SOUTH AFRICA Ten years of partnership in transformation The British Council connects people I r nurturing lasting, mutually beneficial relationships between worldwide with learning opportunities and the UK and South Africa creative ideas from the UK and builds lasti- uooortino South African transformation mutually-beneficial relationships betw] f the UK and South Africa. Isharing experience on democracy, human rights and open government Our work in South Africa is organised under r programmes of collaboration in English Language Teaching, three regional campaign themes: the arts, education, science, governance and human rights

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www.britishcouncil.orglsouthaf rica u( FEua!.i ou.lqrtf, lroa Partnering South African and British artists and creators to increase public appreciation of UK and SA creativity, diversity and innovation in arts, desiqn,- science a- ' technology. L a l- ,o srriss focus french focus Lucky Jack: Three Harti: The end of the The House of Saud attempts to stop smoking "ChimEres"? France/UK 2004 video 120nin Switzerland 2003 Video 90min '':^ce 2004 video 70nin Dir: Jihan El-Tahri Dir: Peter Liechti '1 Charles Najman The historical milieu behind 9/1 is Peter has dec ded to gi\/e up smoking To Beginning with intricately explained ln this absorbing strengthen his resolve he embarks on a Aristide s tribute to documentary Corn in Parliament strict smoke-less walk across countrv frorL libedy, Iraternity and Using historical footage and unique Zurich to the town of his (and his smokil, equality at the Hartian interviews with princes, diplomats, and Switzerland 2003 35nn 90nin addiction's) origin, St Gallen. bi-centenary major political figures, it charts the Dir: Jean-Stephane Bron celebrations in January emergence of a divided and impoverished An essay charting Switzerland's dem0cratic 2004, this enthralling (Gen-Lex) approach to creating a law documentary tries to genetica Da regulating ly engineered animals uncover the historical -:asons € tl- and crops, this intriguing film is so much behind Halli s constant and bitter J political t' I more than a filrn lt very simply ,,,cle of political tragedy and poverly Dt presents p0lit qames. the cal c0flpr0'nrs0S, l0ncentrating on the real problems that E, deal-making, emotional battles and tender fails -ave ,8 Alth0ugh Peter to throw off the plagued this island country since its humanity peop of e who both embrace and addiction twice and has t0 return t0 St 'evoluti0nary independence in 1 804, fear the future, but are tasked to formulate Gallen by increasingly obscure routes, this is rlajman presents a compelling string 0f groundbreaking this Swiss law more than lust a video diary of his thoughts iacts posturino, legends and opinions from and perceptrons on i mself tie ersuing Haitian intellectuals, ruling elite, and encounters and the people he meets lt is a diplomats lnterviews with teenage wry and self-depreciating love letter to the Chimerds" reveal Aristide's dependence on Swiss German community that questions h s an effective, terr0r inspiring youth as his arrogant disregard of the elderly and oersonal militia lt also explains Aristide's ancient desert kingdom into a d0mestically customs that are being lost in a fast, rse of evangelical politics t0 support his troubled world player Concentrating 0n the Although never allowed into the inner impersonal world His view s developed copular and meteoric rise, his corruption in history 0f the Kingdom, the film goes behind sanctum where tempers flare and ideals through endearing meetings with quietly exile, and the unmitigated power he wielded the scenes of Saudl's diplomatic approach and business interest coll de the filmmakers fascinating people, including an ancient until his recent downfall. to the Palestine question, its financial remain completely impartial presenting the pure-spirited political nd0mitable sweetheart, a With unexpected, \iet perfect timing alliance wlth America and America's personalities 'nterests ano of the na,or tarmer, and his fastidious parents Najman places int0 context the recent betrayal, the oil crisis Alghanistan, and its players, and balancing their views on the Couftesy of Pr1-Helvetia and the director events in Hatli massive fundlng of the first Gull War lt also ethical moral, sociai and developmental Doninant 7 and the diector describes the social turmoil and trauma that implicatrons of revolutionary scienttfic all-enc0mpassing modernisation brought research With wonderful poise it reduces l0 the people, and ildicates the pervasrve rncreasingly detached politics and political influence oi religion on every aspect 0f processes down to a human level daily life Cou ftesy of Ci ne - M anuf actu re Cauftesy of the dtrectol

Tue 20 / 6pfr a .n Fri 23 / B lspnr Mon26/Bl5p, , l\y'of 26 / 6pnr ^ 't?i91li3BI JrR )2 french focus international films internati onal films Bus 174 OPENING NIGHT FILM Citizen King USA 2004 video 1 10min Brail 2aa2 35tnn 12Anin Capturing the Friedmans Di. 0rlando Bagwell and Noland Vlalker Dir. Jose Paclilha : :0a2 35nm 107nin 'lrew Dr l\4artin Luther King, Jnr represented ln July 2000 the da ly grind in Rio de - Jarecki many things to many people To the world, Janeiro is thrown into disarray by a terrifying j.' ng in detail everY reason for and he was a stubb0rnly dedlcated American hostage s tuat o r that unfolds on Bus I 74 at s1 an hysterical witch-hunt, this legend whose implacab e moral courage the .a 0rr Botal c0. Elevel inrocent and devotlon to the peaceful resolution of passergers a'e fe d f,ostage oy an |} Ifl:,il1"T:',',','Ji, S21, the Khmer Rouge Oi',I?; conflict inspired revolutt0nary processes 'nc'easi,rg y oesperare st'eer ( d. Sandro. al Killing Machine arouno the world a Nobe' Peace Prize now trapped inside by the police SWAT France 2002 videa 1 01 nil\ winner; and a martyred civil and human snipers, and TV cameras Despite Di. Rithy Panh riohts activist, negotiators, the siege and terror last well As paar of the genoclde enacted 0n the into the night Cambodian people by Pol Pot rn the 1970s, guards at the infanolrs detention centre 52'l (code name for Tuo S eng) irrterrogated

and executed over 1 7 000 "lhreats t0 the state' t0 parnt saved Survivor Panh, whose ability -'rold Elaine and their three boys, grew up life, invites two reet wrth Combined with fascinating archive footage his survvors to ' upper-middle class suburbla, By al guards of the many remarkable events that four at 52l Attempting to explain ::.ounts, they have it alli until a paedophile past changed the course of US history and its and understand the they $/ade through -egazine is tracked to the Friedman house records photos left behind, laws, are interviews with King's major allies the vast and lnsighdul filming, interviews with the :-rold's daily contact with children gently rnterroqating the guards or lherr in the struggle But the truly forceful nature pollce and snipers, and extensive rerglses a massive, quick strike vrctims, = conduct and routines, which they re enact of this documentary c0mes from unveiling cctv and news footage, relay the bulk 0f the -.,estigation, When children, under the with d sturbingly repetitive and dead-pan of the personality and power of convlctl0n drama What makes this f lm truly ;r dance of the pollce reveal outlandish precrsr0n that drove this gently humorous family man compel ing is that the filmmaker not 0n y .:orles of secretive communal abuse and Drawing a fasc nating, effective, yet -aked and cornmunity preacher t0 challenge the builds an in-depth profi e of Sandr0, but leap-frog, the quiet community drstu b'ng p sJ'vivo's status quo, that led to unprovoked attacks cl.rre tiese scared investigates the conditi0ns that created the :.comes hysterical, and the family falls from both sides, try to seek relief by by J, Edgar Hoover and his assassination cr sis, including the deep societa iSart describing a culture of parano a and force of Roia Productions embarrassment and inacti0n that ultimate y rcludrng an extraordinary archive of home- Couftesy that was designed t0 crush any trace lead to this neglected citizen s extreme cry i"os candid footage 0f the family's most ot humanity u'")l!i * Festival de Cannes - 'o' - r,rrrrr,,tury nwaro,trx *it1x l[H:;3lli;lf :fi H:I: Pix Fnncois Chalais Bnzilian Film; Sao Paulo IFE Besl sublect that no-one will usually touch ltalia Culturul ldentity Category Pix - DocumentarY 2003 Sundance Grand Jury Prize Couftesy of lnstitLtte National de 2003 - Miami IFE Best Documentary; 2003 Nominated for oscar@ - L'Audtovisuel Sundance Film Festival selection. DocumentarY Featurc

Fri 16/8pm Thu 22l830Pm a l\,,lof l9 / 7 45pm, Wed 28 / 6Pm Sat 24 / 6pnr , Wed 21 /7 45Dnr - r [4or 26 Bpm Wed 28 / B 45Pm - Sunl/730pm Tue 27 / 6pm -. Suf25/6l5pfr ' ' D Fr Bom Sat 3t I 6 l5Pm Mon2/745pm Srrn I ,'6pm r 30 1 ; 1, 5 / 8Pn Sun 8 / B 15Pil I : l Sun 8 / 6Dn Fil 6, 6pnr u r1 Il Ihu 'r ,4 international films international films Contro! Room The Corporation The Five Obstructions The Perfect Human video l3min USA / Egypt 2003 Video 52min Canada 2004 video 145nin 'ark 2003 video 90min Denmark 1967 Di: Jorgen Leth Dir: Jehane Noujaim Dir: Mark Achbat Jennifer Abbott and Joel -ars von Trier, Jorgen Leth As the US-led Coalition invaded lraq in Bakan . ncredible homage to inspirational This simple, I/arch 2003, every news cnannel flew in -a\ing as Arl, lhe Five )bslructions fluid and now and relayed back to their audience -^s reality TV at its finest, creating a cult information on the ensuing war that was co- -,: Pace for filmmakers, representation model ordinated by lhe US army which was Ilon Trier holds le0enOarV Olreclol of the fighting both a media and a ground war. tn ,4,n, anrstrc approacn rrr trrc male and Dane one channel had a different view of events. .lest esteem, but he feels that he is often female :lean, t00 obiective. Acting as an artistic is the most ',rhiavelli, von Trier challenges Leth to c0ncrse rtch his creativity to the limit, by setting representation .:nringly insurmountable and perverse of Jorgen Leth's holistic Dissecting the personality of corporations as ..:flctions to filming five re-creati0ns of Perlect Man approach to a legal "Person" with penetrating precision, =:r s seminal filn, The The the directors ol this thought-provoking art documentary come up with irrefutable Pelect Offering a rare window nto the evidence lhat these "Persons" are, in fact, Hunan presents in the guise of a serious international perception of the lraq War, psych0paths But, this is not the mass - exercise an intentionally Control Roon shou\t how Al Jazeera slating of single corporate entities (although anthropol0gical - but enduringly poignant view 0f broadcast the unlolding events to 40 million many are ciled) - il is an investigation into simplistic, expectations and perceptions of Arab viewers Claiming to be 0bjective, Al why the "body" corporate has such our perfection lJsing a stark background, with a Jazeera was intent on presenting the profound global political, commercial and props, Leth obiectively "human cost" of war and was publicly psychological influence few necessary impression of normality as vilified by both Bush and Bumsfeld for it Cohesive, intelligent and well balanced, the displays his the perfect human through a This passi0nate expose is a clear document film expresses the views of anti-c0rporate applled to choreographed display of banal activities of war, an inquiry into how events are actrvists and meets the exploited, lust as it filtered into "news," and a complex portrait invites the Corporations t0 pose their side 0f lhartingeveryfrustrated,exhilaratedandjuxtaposedwithobscurethoughtsand of the personalities behind the scenes the argument. CEOs and corporate insiders Gnnd Jury - 7th annual Full Frame account for their past and present Documentaty Festival misconduct in the name of the shareholders

;:lilfl x [T]:[:,'.:il xY[:13:: ilr moral and responsible track-record as citizens is still out with the jury NFB Best Documentary Awatd - of the Danish Filn lnstitute Calgary Filn Festival Clurlesy 0f the Dantsh Filn lnstitute Couftesy Five Absfuclions andThe Pelecl Human screen l)gelhet Wed2l '6pr r rn Wed2- //.45pwlLe27 /60\ rnu zzleom; Sun 1 / 6 l5pm sal 31 / 6pm / r ThL 29 /.45pm ] ! ,JhR rres: /6 15pm, Thu 5/ 6Pm ,6 international films Home of the Brave, Land of the Free Norway 2003 vtdeo 52min Dir: John Sullivan Exhibiting the reality of a career that is often fantasised about, but never recorded - that Game Over - Kasparov of the soidier ows and the Machine USA 2002 video 84nin ffi,HLT ,C Dir. Vikran Jayanti Forces in Afghanistan Crisply dressed as Afghani farmers 0r in fatigues, these ln 1 997, the responsibility of defending our professronal soldiers cany out 0peration "highea' intelligence was laid at the feet of Enduring Freedom the gung-h0, on-the- Gany Kasparov, He rose 10 the ultimate - grourd aoplication of America's "Beign challenoe in the guise of a chess-match on terror' against IBM's Deep Blue Pitching the ln th;s stark moLntainous border region, human brain against the mathematical north of machine caplured the world's imaginati0n, Jalalabad, the The media-coverage 0f this symb0lic event povefty is only ensured that it was followed and padially remembered by mollions, alleviated Not just a film for chessjanatics (not much through heroin- chess is featured), it looks deep behind the manulacture, scenes, into the emotions and anxiety that car smuggling rocked the event lt shows how an (over the acknowledged genius took 0n a corporate Khyber Pass on giant and, due to tension, pressure, a camel), and corporate politics and psychol0gical warfare, weapon storing lost Six years on, a haunted Kasparov Ior Al Qaeda, returns t0 those fatefui days and we meet Hunting for Deep Blue's creators, and hear their side oI Osama Bin Laden and caches of weapons, this fascinating, but controversial, story the US Forces d stribute pirlows, prlls, Couftesy of the diector H:i iffi ;l*T:H:::::T-i%: " 5 warlords, All displaying that in this corner 0f the world, the ideal 0f democratic values is a drstanl dream Courtesy of the Norvvegian Film lnstitute

17/9 t3t/745pm n1l9 > ?o international films international f ilms r Hush The Man who loved Metallica: Some Kind of Bussia 2002 video 80min Haugesund Monster Dir: Victor Kossakovsky ,3y 2AA3 videa 59min USA 2003 video 139min Not venturing far from his own reality on Haukeland & Tore Vollan Dir; J1e Berlinger & Bruce Stn1fsky legendary filmmaker, Kossakovsky has , s the fascinat ng rags{o-riches tale 0f This enthra ling documentary ls not lust for piece created an elegant, amusing 0f visual .. ran lVloritz Rabinowitz who landed, in fans 0f the thrashing kings 0f Heavy lVetal poetry out 0f the rnost unexpected subject in the village of Haugesund He This three year-long study shows a matter, NOt moving from the few square ^ decides to conplerely different side to t\e media- metres of his streelfacing window he stay and projected culture of the band lVaybe they records a year in the life of an builds a have lust grown up but twenty years after inc0nsequential street in St Petersburg, lmelda nation-wide they first began jamming together, N/etallica USA 2003 video 1 03min text le and is not what you think they are, Here they Dir. Ramona S. Diaz clothing battle rehab, themselves and each other, A wonderfully we l-balanced and quietly empire whose work llke demons, and undergo protracted chi liro acco:nt ol ll'e rlamous Filip ro employee- and intrusive lhe'apy lo keep lneir rusir \ dictator's wile, and renowned shoe-fetlshist, relations and on track lmelda lvlarcos, that tipt0es a 0ng the fine business It shows the sensitive side 0f gravel voiced ine between the eulogy that lme da approach devil-may-care fr0nt man James Feisty -- imag ned the filmmakers were mak ng, and were far drummer, and anti-Napster crusader, Lars conc se i1s gfts rt0 a b'Ltal 21 year reign ahead of its desperately fights t0 keep the band of corruption (l 965-86) that she refuses to time together. And mild-mannered Kirk, good- acknowledge Despite the naturedly weathers the continual clash Beautiful y coifeo, we islen ro lle bi/are wealth that he between James and Lars Most of all, it but ultimately deluded existential brings the displavs the hard w0rk that constantly Altnougn tne main fascination is a year- ph losophies lmelda uses to exclude herself regr0n pushes the creative b0undaries f0r long increas rgly c0'rical qJesr to repa r from tl^e excesses ol her l-uobaro's regine rrb nowitz ls a Jew, and envious 0f his one album pipes burst other remarkabie yet tiny, despite her aughing portraya of the very ..rccess, and disdalnJu of his religion, events occur including dogs congregat ng, real power she he d, Visiting the vanous -rugesund s0clety reiects hlm ln this social overs lalling over eacf otfer n the rair, palaces of her previous life, we fol 0w .olation he writes reLentless shrewd, h gh men breaking for freedom, a man waiting lmelda on a political campa gn around the :rofile newspaper aftlcles advocating a for h s lover with flowers, and munic pal Ph lippines . rited Europe and critic slng Nazism's workers scrubbing the exteriors of bulldings Precise editinq wittily intersperses archi\/e 'alevolent rise He is gnored until the Nazs This elegiac piece captures in a time ess dance the obscure and banal minutiae 0f *rE ;i li. i,i3[Jift il, I T.x',i,il Y " the everyday life of complete strangers a life I ved by a self-created personality'cult: raptures Babinow tz's complex character set to a m xture of vaudevil e and melda :nd offers a personal glimpse into the classical music Caufiesy of United lnternational and loming terror of the Nazi menace Cauftesy of the director the dtrector C\uftesy af the N\Megian Film lnstitute

Sal 17 i 6pm Sat 17 / 7 45pmi Fri 23 / l0 30pm Srr 25 6Pn r m Sal 24 6Pr Sur25/B30pm Surli6pm SL-l 60r /r Surl 7J5!nr N/ot2l6prr Ero 0l5pr cL B.l5pr J irB 40 international films international films No, 17 Riding Giants To Live is Better Than to lsrael 2003 video 75min USA 2004 35mm 105min Die Dir: David )fek Dir. Stacy Peralta China 2003 video 60nin A bus is bombed by Hamas at lVeggido Dir: Weijun Chen

Junction n 2002, ki ling 1 I and wounding In llis leartorea(inq story l\ia Snergyi. an 50 Although wlth a tragic starting point, th s lntelligent, compassionate man has the usual fasc nat ng documentary reveals so much w0rries about the future: the hea th and more than the usual war-strewn financial securlty of his three young chlldren recriminationsi it presents real people living Touching scenes of paternal dedicati0n and real lrves pride are pulled lnto sharp focus as his wife, One of the victims of the bombing has not Leimei's, strength ebbs away been claimed, The authorities assume that he is an 'illegal immigrant" not and, Rusty Red knowing his rel qioLs status, 0Jry r Tr T Shiny Stars, unhallowed ground Described as "a very ,:ruay/China 2003 video 60min average person who d ed a non-average Do not be fooled. This thril ing documentary -'Elisabeth)Sjaastad death,' the lack of ident ty of this victim is not only a surfer's n rvana; it takes us 0n -re American dream is over, a Chlnese piques the filmmaker's curiosity He a quest for the supreme pleasure, ideal :'eam ls comingl" challenges Chen Kaige, launches a thorough investigatlon, deep into shape and mind-blowing experience of '.'eclot oI Farewell My Concubtne fiis ts a lsraeli society, steadily creating an identikit, being chased by a mountain of water, We -allenge that celebrated commercials (but by accessing lie menories o' the survivors. meet the intrepidly likeable surf gods: ---rstrated leatures) director, Wang Yuelun is The family is a vlctlm 0f a devastating bus employees, iorensic sc entists and unmistakable Greg Noll who was the first t0 retermined to live up t0 But this entails reality: during the 1 990s the farmers and social workers, on behalf ol the police take on the 60ft North Shore waves; Jeff ,onvincing producers to fund his first villagers of China's poorest rural areas Special Juty Awail - Hot Docs 2004 Clark, who surfed the hazardous Mavericks ':ature film, ln fascinating detail, his quest supplemented thelr hard-earned income by Best Featurc documentary at DocAviv 2003 alone for 1 5 years; and legend of the ':veals daily Chinese life in neon Bejing We donating blood. This "easy' money came at lntemational Prcss Award - Chicago moment, Laird Hamilton, who continues t0 Teet Yuelen's proud, aspirati0nal parents, the highest price: HIV/AIDS ln Wenlu, Henan lnternational Documentary Film push the boundaries of surfing r s gorgeously petulant girlfriend, an Province, Central China, 60% of the Festival With lascinar'ng arcnrve footage show ng dr'oganl producer. ano major playe's in villagers are lnfected, most living with full Couftesy of Eden Productions and the history of the spofi, including ts pop lhina's officlal and unofficial film lndustry blown AIDS the dhector cultural boom this film delves deep within Juxtap0sing images of gyrating robotic Offering no answers as the seasons unfold, the psyche of an extreme sport athlete, t :ameras with an intense belief ln the the filmmaker sensitively reveals a very ofiers an insight into the fear, adrenaline, credictions of his fortune teller and the intimate human tragedy in a forgotten .-rns of maveac^ direct , Siaaslad corner of the world #r,,y oap,r,, ,n, ,un,, uurwuurr 5rrrLr 2003 - Selection Sundance Film Festival monster swel :ommunist ideals and economic progress, 2003 - Selection lnternational 2004: opening Night filn - ncluding the increasing insurgence and Documentaty Film Festival Amsterdam Sundance Film Festival nfluence of capitalist values, (tDFA) Courtesy of SterKinekor Couftesy 0f the N1rulegian Filn lnstitute Counesy of TV 2 Denmark

Tue20/6 1spm; Mon26/745pm;Thu -,. l\/l0r 19/6pm;Th! 22l l0l5pm Sat lOpm Ihr 22 / 6on 29l60m 24 / 'Bpr Screens with Detail - l\,40n 26 / 60m; Sai 31 / g I 5pm Sat3l i 9450m F,r 30 845pn -Le'r Bpn Tues3/815pnr Sdt3- Surg 6pr r . r\t Sc,eenswiu Deta,tJ'. 1 S"r r Ooir Thu5/815pm 42 Detail guest directors lsrael 2004 video I min Staff & Dir. Avl Mograbi Gontributors With effortless simplicity, I\4ograbi presents a stunning insight into the emotlonal trauma DIBECTORS: experienced by 3.5 rillion Palestirians i1 Steven Markovitz and Nodi lVurphy attempting to cross the 'border' patrols implacably manned by lsraeli soldiers The PROJECT COOBDINATOR: humiliatlon is excruciatrng but this Joan Legalamitlwa unbearable ack of control over their destiny ACOUISITIONS: has become a daily reality Colette lVuir MAFITINA DELLA TOGNA Couftesy af the directot PBODUCTION MANAGER: rrg from the Eastern Cape, She ley Barry Della Togna has been producing 'rp f0r ten years and s based I used to be a Llza Shapiro eted graduate studies in English and documentar es es of Cape Town and in Cape Town, South Afr ca Bl)odr11ts las Filmmaker PROGRAMMING ASSISTANT: ,nra at the lJniversit s currenty based at been a lab0ur 0f love wh ch started in Riaan Hendricks .,rVestern Cape She USA 2003 video 1]min ,'rple Un versity n Philadelph a reading for I 997 and has finally taken shape in the Dir. Jay Rosenblatt PROGRAMME WBITER: . [,4asters (Fine Afts in Fi m) and where form of a short documentary film She is lsla Haddow ln a tender and p ayful cinematic eu ogy to : has comp eted six short fi ms Her one of Rainbow Circle F lms's dlrectors and his infant daughter El a Rosenblatt ACCOUNTS: 'rs are being screened on internat onal is invo ved in develop rg co-productions juxtaposes the frlm industry's technica Zahir Baatjies and Carol Jackson 'r fest vals in the United States and both loca y and nternationally Della Togna terms and jargon with adoring footage of is also actively mentoring emerging UOLUNTEEBS: -rrth Africa Ella's emotional, physical and producers from townshlps based Phrwamandla Sukumane communicational development Th s production companies Jacqueline van Meygaarden endearin0 filrn ls the record of a proud father falling deep y in love with his PROGRAMME DESIGNEB: daughtel and her increas ng understanding Tania Bester of how to manipulate his attention CINEMA ASSISTANT: Courtesy of the drrector Fabio Mbazwana The King and THANKS TO: Dick Sharon Jackson, Theresa Raizenberg, Johann l\4aree, lvleryl Glaser, USA 2004 video qmtn CLIFF BESTALL Siven Maslamoney, Don Edkins, Dir: Scott Calonico li fford Bestall's film career started in Solly Mokoetle, Ruti Frensdorff, 'esoonse t0 the emerging political activism LAURENCE DWORKIN This is the amusingly presented, but Pat van Heerden, Platon Trakoshis, late was invoorated bV lhe 80's Laurence Dworkin was a Iounder member terrifyingly true account of the bizarre Nicky Newman, Emily Marcuson, .'I ,y o oe roroweo oy Ine ua'rrur 0i the Afravisi0n Video Collective, which meeting between two of the twentieth Freddy Ogterop, Terrence Khumalo, :ars when he could re eva uate why he documented struggles in South Afrlca ln the century's most influential and illJated Sylvia Vollenhoven, Graham Dominy, :-ecame a film maker in the first instance eighties He came to fllm and politics figures: Elvis Presley and R chard Nixon, t0 Brenda Kotze and Danie de Waal : nce 1 994 he has made a number of slmuitane0usiy but always dreamt of other discuss Presley becoming a NABC, Apologies to anyone we have forgotten ;ocumentaries that have attracted things He still makes lllms and farms Courtesy of Slowkid Productions ,iernational acclaim and awards Rooibos tea in the bokkeveld Delail screens with No 17 I used to be a Flnnaker screens with Keeping il Real The Kng antl Dtck yreens wilh H1ne 0[ lhe Brave Land 0l lhe Frffi 44 guest directors guest directors

RUDZANI DZUGUDA VAUGHAN GIOSE JACK LEWIS Dzuguda orew up n the Northern Province Vaughan Giose, independent fi mmaker, gret' - : shennan's lale is his directorial debut Jack Lewis lectured in po itical economy an area 0f constant cultura activty He up n Elsies River on the Cape Flats He r aimed as a f lm that 'remlnds me of the tlefore founding ldol Pictures n 1993 and the studied Drama and television prodUction in started up his own company, Rainbow Crrcle - of Picasso and Diego Riviera who had Out in Afr ca South African Gay a rd Lesbian Kwazulu Natal Fiims ln I 999 and has produced and directeil .:il their art to animate the cond tion 0f Film Festival in 1 994 He has directed a|d l1 Johalnesburg he joineo Summit several documentaries including the lk0n SA : r,i orking people and their dignity" produced numerous South African televrsion, working in production and as an series which has featured at local and :-rlessor Ben Turok At 28 Riaan's heart documentaries He c0-directed his f rst editor He worked on e TV news as a international film festivals G ose is a hands , J eyes are set 0n bring ng to life South feature film, Prateus,wili Canadian John camerarnan and then on e-arts as a on filmmaker often shooting and editing his -'r can Cinema in its most evocative form Greyson n 2002 and produced Casa de la journalist, He recently formed his own fi m own films He is aiso a founder member of Mrlslca, winner 0f the Encounters Jameson company Mix is his first film Molwen , Cape Town's first township based Best SA documentary Aud ence Award 2003

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JANE KENNEDY Beginning with photography in the early I 980's, Jane Kennedy has worked in a SHEDRECK MAPASA TEBOHO EDKINS LAUREN GROENEWALD ,ariety of communication mediums through l\4apasa joined the SABC in 2000 as a year 23 old Teboho Edkins was lrorn in tF. Direct0r producer, Groenewald beqan he ar,4ro-visual, video and radi0 productton and production assistant He worked in live grew USA and up in Lesotho Germany ano broadcast and in the planning and South Africa He completed a degree in Fi re #*1,:f ;m,.},[?i-,:fl:' implementation of SABC proiects A(s major nq in photographv at tlrP SABC3 as acting executrve producer 0f lre producer/director and marketing consultant ln this time, he established his company llrversity of Cape lbwn and rs cLrrrentl/ flbrks Commission lg and protlt c rtri :,ris The focus of her film and video production called Nonakhala Productions with a vision stlrdyng French in Paris Ask rrre, ant re aled rl0cr frd,i,ti .s S r),'e 2CLlll sirLr ir,r:: s n community development and to make compelling films that will touch ,a I is rsl 'iifil s f fllnr l!,01 l r,r[]t""1 ir l,LEXlls FiL\]5, (lrrotnu :ransformation South Africans and the rest of the wodd, He a..l nToar r. irq rlocLrmettares inc!rrr|,q !56 Cinderella of the Cape Flats is her fisl left the SABC to start developing /rt ol a. ' , li. broadcaster commissioned documentary Survival,which he produced and directed 4: guest directors guest directors 4

KHALO MATABANE AKIEDAH MOHAMED KETHTWE NGCOBO MINKY SCHLESINGER lvlatabane is an award winning filmmaker Akredah Mohamed was born in Cape Town ',,e Ngcobo grew up in London where lVinky Schlesinger, former actress, started whose fi ms about South Africa have and studied Rel gious Traditions She startec -itudied Cultura Studies, after which her career ln the field of fi m as a wrlter on brought him both national and international working at C0mmunity Vide0 Education Trusr . 'eturned to South Africa in 1 994 She documentaries ln the mid I 990's she made interest He has been invited to workshops (CVET), later lo n ng Face 2 Face F lms Ceve oped and produced a number of her debut in directing with The Works on a[d festiva]s arOund the world This year he product working rn on and directing :. s on prograrnmes for the SABC and SABC3 and Wonen and l4lar Since then has g ven creat ve wnting courses at the numer0us television d0cumentaries, She and internationaly for ryE, UNESCO she has d rected a number of other fi ms for Nati0nal Electronic and Media lnstitute of continues t0 wnte and direct Her acclalmed London Weekend Televtsion Some of the SABC She also has extens ve Southern Akica His films include /oung f iims include The Second Wife, selected for .vork has received cr tical acclaim experience as a wr ter ard p'oducer Lions, The Waiters (iss ,Tw1 Decades Still and an Avanti Award and Malawian wh ch .rding a CNN African Journa ist Award Poetic Conversations won the Special lverit Jury Award at the Sithengi Festival ln 1999

ZULFAH OTTO.SALLIES GILLIAN SCHUTTE BEVERLEY MITCHELL :. iah Otto-Sallies, a playwright, began her Gillian Schutte is a writer filmmaker, poet Beverley lVitchell is a respected OMELGA MTHIYANE -,'career co-directing a documentary for and healer She has worked as a consultant rndependent filrma^er I lrougf her ga 0me lvthiyane studied Video Technology at :&P Productions ln 1995, she worked as with universities and organisati0ns compaly, Ancest.al Visions, she has - Techn kor Naral. She worked for Argel F'' t t .of CVFT (Commdnitv Video ano developing multi-media educational produced and directed both .esearcher d0cumentary ir Johannesburg as a ard ! ' .,,In ,.rru aro se'veo on lle uape rnaterial Part of this education methodology and television dramas As a political activist production assistarl Tnrough thts experience : r and Video Foundation Board in 1 997 is based 0n incorporating'stor!'telling' into in the 80's, Mitchell shared a police cell the process ol making a documentary - . fah has written and directed numerous academic learning environments with t\,4K operative, Coline Williams and in ntrigued her. She moved to Cape Town where :erts and telev sion documentaries She Recently she directed a series of lhe flm Wlnter is Ju, she tells the story of Eilm she worked at Sitheng, ard Ielevisior es the director of the Cape Town World documentarles, with husband Sipho her fallen comrade Mitchell is passlonate Nlarket ln 2001 she was selected for the nema Festival in 2003 Singiswa, on human rights issues, which about history and identity recurring themes Close Encounters Documentary Laboratory have shown at local and international in her films and was trained ,r making docuneltares Human Rlghts fllm festivals tl, 50 guest di rectors guest directors

MAR!JKE PETER LIECHTI CHARLES NAJMAN ONYEKACHI JONGBLOED Born in Switzerland and educated in lharles was born in 1956 in Paris He WAMBU degree at Tobian Onyekachi Wambu was born in Nigeria, Dutch director, Marijke Jongbloed has Art History at the University of Zurich, 0btained a Philosophy ln the 1980's he which he left after the Civil War. He often been referred to as an Auteur Peter Liechti has been working in films University in Paris, of most of his time working as a was educated at the UniversitY Documentary f ilmmaker, Her as a scriptwrter, director and spent and Selwyn College, Cambrldge graduatron project in 1980, Step by cameraman, since 1984, He has made lournalist for French cinema Essex, Cinematographe, A journalist, he was also editor of The Slep, portrayed the highly competitive over 10 filmic representations, publication such as Le Nouvelles Voice, Britain's leading Black world of ballet students striving to employing methods of documentary, fAutre Journal and Haiti: Dieu seul me newspaper He has worked extenslvely reach the top, The film was chosen as conventional and experimental Litteraires. His book history of Haiti, as a freelance comrnentator' the otficial Dutch selection for the filmmaking His films have won volt on the cultural Medicis Hors le broadcaster and television producer' As Academy Award nominations in Los numerous awards, Torino Jury's Award earned him the Villa has also worked a documentarY Producer for the BBC, Angeles in 1981 , Marijke has extensive and the Bern Film Award infor Grinsel. Murs (ltaly).Charles television and Channel Four, and PBS and as an experience in television and cinema, His documentary Singels Suitcase has extensively in French of independent, his credits include ,4in't and has covered subjects ranging from won several awards including, Bern has produced a number acclaimed film, ta no black in the l\nion Jack; Africa 1ut current events to reportage forms. She Film Award, the Viennale Public Award documentaries, His dans L'eaA Darkness, Black on EuroPe aad was awarded the first prize at the pitch and the Zurich Film Prize in 1996. Menoie Est - Elle Sllubte of at international festivals Hopes on the Horizon, His publications forum at IDFA -l 998 for FATAL Lucky Jack: Three Attenpts to Stop was screened of awards include the anthologY 'EmPire REACTION - the four-paft odyssey on Snokinghas been screened at IDFA and won a number Blyal Bonbln tn Windrushl 50 Years of writing about career women and their quest for a and was short-listed for the Joris lr,"ns ln-r002 he completed Black Britain,' He is currentlY compatible partner, Award. b information officer at the African Marijke is sponsored by the Peter is a guest at Encounters courtesy f,##T.fil:Jr:J:l#iiil', Foundation for Development (AFF0BD) Royal Netherlands Embassy and of the Arts Council of Switzerland: French EmbassY Onyekachi is a guest of the Festival Holland Film. Pro-Helvetia. courtesy of the British Council. GINE 4 CINE 1 CINE 6 All PM Shows

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