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Introductions ... 4 Opening Night Film ... 6 3x3 | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun ... 7 3x3 | Mati Diop ... 8 3x3 | Alain Gomis ... 9 Celebrating 21 years of ... 10 Bonfires & Revolutions ... 11 Main Programme ... 12 The Baobab Award for Best Short Film… 19 Short Film Programme ... 20 2013 Graduation from the ESAV … 22 Maghreb Shorts: Crossing Borders ... 23 Film Africa Events ... 24 Meet the Team … 26 Thanks & Acknowledgements ... 27 Venues & Map ... 28 Index ... 30

@FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK www.filmafrica.org.uk 4 The Royal African Society presents Film Africa 2013

Introduction by Richard Dowden Introduction by Suzy Gillett We at The Royal African Society (RAS) are delighted to bring you Film Africa, our annual Curating cinema is a form of distillation which, with the best ingredients combined, , for the third year running. Curated by Suzy Gillett and a team of five excellent creates a powerful brew. The final product – in this case the third annual Film Africa programmers, Film Africa 2013 once again celebrates the finest new and classic African festival in – is the fruit of many people’s labour. cinema right here in London. For this year’s festival, we are delighted to present the work of some of the best directors The films in this year’s festival continue to reveal new images of Africa – wealthy, global of their generation. These include Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, the young South African visionary and dynamic; still full of challenges, but brimming with confidence. They also go beneath behind our darkly thrilling opening night film Of Good Report; Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the the surface of the high growth rates and “Africa rising” headlines to expose deeper Chadian master whose delightful Grisgris will bring the festival to a close; and Mati Diop, narratives and tell stories of ordinary and extraordinary life in the continent. These whose strikingly sensual experimental films prove that she’s learnt a thing or two from her wonderfully moving dramas, captured by Africa’s filmmakers, are creating a phenomenal legendary uncle Djibril Diop Mambety (whose still-electrifying road movie Touki Bouki we new wave of African cinema, which we at the RAS are very proud to support. are screening in its 40th anniversary year). And there’s more: the Cameroonian Jean- Over the past few years, the RAS has expanded its programmes to highlight and promote Pierre Bekolo, whose films are renowned for their searching intelligence; Senegalese the best of Africa’s creativity and cultural production. After only three years, Film Africa has aesthete and renaissance man Alain Gomis; the brilliant Kenyan polymath Judy Kibinge; become the UK’s biggest annual festival of African cinema. At the heart of the festival’s and the promising young Tunisian Sami Tlili will all be present for in-depth Q&A sessions. success is our focus on choosing the very best films and engaging the most dynamic, Our wide-ranging programme brings together the best in film from across the continent, relevant and innovative filmmakers in Africa and the Diaspora. We have also worked on blending the contemporary and the classic; fiction and documentary. We have a focus on building long-lasting, collaborative partnerships with other festivals and our many partners Nollywood, the roaringly successful of . There are films of and supporters, to whom I extend our thanks. revolution, civil war, and shifting power struggles (including Kibinge’s Something Film Africa is ultimately the result of the phenomenal work of the team at the Royal African Necessary and the astonishing documentary Babylon by a trio of first-time helmers from Society who have worked tirelessly on the festival, and across our other programmes. I Tunisia.) As Egypt continues to endure tumult, director Halmy Nouh’s evocative short also encourage other partners and supporters to come forward and help us make Film Paper Boat (made between the revolution that ousted Mubarak and the election that Africa a permanent and even bigger part of London’s cultural landscape. We have big followed) asks, poignantly, “what’s next?” plans and we would love to have you on board. Just as important as the feature films are the shorts – they are the medium in which we Our cultural programme, and indeed all our work, reflects how we at RAS see ourselves: gauge the talent of the future. Our host of whip-smart shorts are in competition for The the ‘big tent’ organisation for everyone who has an interest in Africa. We promote Africa’s Baobab Award prize for £1000, the jury for which comprises Yaba Badoe, writer and increasingly important role in the rest of the world culturally, economically, politically, filmmaker, Kate Gerova, Artistic Director of Birds Eye View film festival, and Nick Denes, socially and in hundreds of other ways. This year’s film festival reflects this more than Co-Director of the Palestinian Film Foundation. ever. And we go beyond exhibition with a look behind the scenes in our series of special events I hope you will join us at the many screenings, Q&As, workshops and other special events and workshops. We’ll be taking an intensive look at the Business of Film in Africa in our taking place across our six partner venues from 1-10 November. I look forward to seeing special panel, and we are delighted to be partnering with the University of Westminster’s you there. annual African Film Conference. Richard Dowden It has been a huge privilege to be at the helm curating this year’s festival and I dedicate Director Royal African Society my first Film Africa to my dearly missed champions of African cinema: the late Kenji Shirashi; Pierre Guilbert; and Charlie Gillett. Suzy Gillett Film Africa Curious about 2 the RAS?

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaking at Africa Writes, the Royal African Society’s annual literature festival. Credit: Siddharth Khajuria 6 Opening Night Film - Friday 1 November

Of Good Report Dir. Jahmil X.T. Qubeka. With Mothusi Magano, Petronella Tshuma, Phoenix Mabote. South Africa. 2013. 109min. B&W. Deemed so incendiary at the 2013 Durban Film Festival that it was temporarily banned, Qubeka’s extraordinarily accomplished and blackly comic feature nods respectfully to film noir stylistics, but emerges with its own distinct sensibility. Shot in the minority Xhosa language and set in underprivileged rural areas of South Africa it follows the fortunes of introverted high school teacher Parker Sithole (a beautifully modulated, near-silent performance by Magano). Parker has a quiet passion for literature and, with devilish irony, is presented to his new school as a man “of good report”. Shortly thereafter, he meets a mesmerising young woman, Nolitha (brilliantly played by newcomer Tshuma) in a local bar, and he falls for her. The next day Nolitha walks into his classroom and he realises that the blossoming love which has brought joy into his world is forbidden. Parker is faced with a moral dilemma, and ultimately takes the wrong route, resulting in disastrous and violent consequences. Shot in seductive monochrome, and benefitting from superbly sinister sound design, Of Good Report is a technical achievement of the highest order. From its corrosively discomfiting opening moments to its bleak finale, Qubeka’s film is a dizzying trip into a debased mind. Will you dare to take it? The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka Fri 1 Nov l 18:45 l Hackney Picturehouse Film Africa launches 3x3 – a focus on 3 directors and their 3 key films 7

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Dry Season (Daratt) Dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. With Ali Barkai, (Un homme qui crie) Closing Night Film: The Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Youssouf Djaoro, Aziza Hisseine. Dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Grisgris Haroun has, in the last two decades, Chad/France/Belgium/Austria. 2006. 96min. With Youssouf Djaoro, Dioucounda Koma, Dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. With gradually cemented his reputation as Colour. Emile Abossolo M’bo. Souleymane Démé, Anaïs Monory, Cyril Guei. one of the the most respected cinema Set in the wake of the long Chadian civil war, France/Belgium/Chad. 2010. 92min. Colour. France/Chad. 2013. 101min. Colour. 16-year-old Atim (Barkai) is sent by his auteurs in . His carefully Adam (Djaoro) is a pool attendant at a fancy Charming, visually lush and consistently grandfather to the city to kill his father’s composed moral dramas are justly fêted hotel in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital, where surprising, Grisgris is Haroun’s most optimistic assassin, Nassara (Haroun’s muse Djaoro). Atim, everyone still calls him ‘champ’ after his heyday film to date. Our eponymous hero (Démé) dreams for their pared-down, Bressonian carrying his father's gun, finds Nassara running as a competitive swimmer. His son, Abdel of being a dancer despite his paralysed leg. The approach to tackling the conundrums of a bakery. Unexpectedly, the taciturn Nassara (Komo), works under him at the pool, but the old film ingeniously tracks Grisgris overcoming all adopts Atim as the son he never had. Haroun’s the human condition; they appear quiet order is changing as economic pressures force kinds of obstacles, fighting both his disability and elegant and carefully-scripted film carries all the on the surface, but always have multiple the hotel management to promote Abdel and the baddies (he starts to work for a gang of petrol weight of post-war dislocation, and returns to move Adam to demeaning front-gate duty. The smugglers). Will Grisgris get the girl (Monory)? layers to be unpicked. We are screening his recurring theme of the father figure with spectre of war is also upsetting the natural state The film’s multiple subtexts will leave the viewer three of his most well-regarded works powerful results. Dry Season won the Grand of things, and Adam enters into a terrible musing over the themes raised days after Special Jury Prize at the 63rd Venice to date: Daratt, which won the Grand bargain when a local chief pressures him to watching; what appears to be the simple story of International Film Festival, as well as eight other Special Jury Prize at the 63rd Venice contribute to the war effort, financial or one man’s unlikely achievement ultimately prizes at Venice and the Panafrican Film and International Film Festival; A Screaming otherwise. With masterful control, Haroun embodies a utopian vision that reaches into a Festival of . transforms the personal and emotional turmoil Man, which won the Jury Prize at the wider discussion of the state of Africa, and how Tue 5 Nov l 18:45 l Hackney Picturehouse of his story into still, meditative, and quietly we navigate into our future. 2010 , making devastating . In Cannes Competition 2013 Winner of the Haroun the first Chadian director to Wed 6 Nov l 21:00 l Hackney Picturehouse Vulcan Award for Best Cinematography, enter, as well as win, an award in the Cannes 2013 main Cannes competition; and Grisgris, Sun 10 Nov l 18:15 l Cine Lumiere which was this year nominated for the Palme d’Or in Cannes. @FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK www.filmafrica.org.uk 8 3x3 – a focus on 3 directors and their 3 key films Henry Roy

Mati Diop Atlantiques Big In Vietnam Mille Soleils Born in in 1982, Mati Diop Dir. Mati Diop. With Sergine Seck, Dir. Mati Diop Dir. Mati Diop Chiekh M’Baye. studied film at Le Fresnoy, the French France. 2012. 34min. Colour. France. 2013. 45min. Colour. France/. 2009. 15min. Colour. national studio of contemporary art. The mysterious Big In Vietnam begins with a film Diop’s compelling mid-length essay film retraces Sitting by the campfire, a boy from named crew shooting a scene in a forest. Soon, the and investigates some 40 years later the Before embarking on a directorial Serigne tells his two friends the story of his sea French-Vietnamese director loses the lead actor journeys of the two main characters from Touki path, she forged a successful acting voyage as a stowaway. Everyone in his in the forest. Abandoning the film, the director Bouki, the cult film made by her late uncle Djibril career, a highlight of which was her entourage seems to be continually obsessed by walks the streets of Marseille, where she meets Diop Mambety (which we are also screening). role as a devoted daughter in Clare the idea of trying to cross the sea. His words a fellow countryman in a karaoke bar. Walking Diop’s family is inextricably entangled with the reverberate like a melancholy poem. Atlantiques along the beach as dawn breaks he tells her the dual histories of cinema and Senegal, and, in Denis’ sumptuous drama 35 Shots of is a story about boys who are continually story of his own haunting journey of no return. Mille Soleils, she uses this fact to merge Rum (2008). Perhaps it’s no surprise travelling: between past, present and future; life Sat 9 Nov l 19:15 l Hackney Picturehouse temporalities to haunting effect. that Diop has embarked on a career and death; history and myth. Winner of the Winner, Grand Prix International Competition, in the seventh art: she is the daughter Rotterdam Tiger Award short film 2010. FID Marseille 2013 of Wasis Diop (composer of the music Sat 9 Nov l 19:15 l Hackney Picturehouse Sat 9 Nov l 19:15 l Hackney Picturehouse for Daratt, A Screaming Man, and Atlantiques also screens alongside La pirogue on Thu 7 Nov (see p.15 for details) Grisgris), and the niece of Djibril Diop Mambety, (director of Touki Bouki ). Film Africa has selected three of her films to highlight the work of a talented filmmaker mapping out her own unique creative space. 3x3 – a focus on 3 directors and their 3 key films 9

Alain Gomis L’Afrance Andalucia Tey (Aujord’hui) Born in Paris in 1972, Alain Gomis is Dir. Alain Gomis. With Djolof Mbengue, Dir. Alain Gomis. With Samir Guesmi, Dir. Alain Gomis. With Saul Williams, Delphine Zingg, Samir Guesmi. Delphine Zingg, Djolof Mbengue. Djolof Mbengue, Anisia Uzeyman. proud of his varied heritage, describing France/Senegal. 2001. 90min. Colour. France. 2007. 90min. Colour. France/Senegal. 2012. 86min. Colour. himself as “made of pieces – Guinea- Gomis’s award-winning feature début probes Andalucia is a story of Yacine (Guesmi), a Poet Saul Williams stars as Satché, newly Bissau, France, Senegal”. With his trio the dilemmas and cultural confusion of thirtysomething Frenchman of Algerian origin returned from America to his Senegal of features to date, Gomis has created Senegalese immigrants in Paris. Young student looking for his place in 21st Century France. As hometown, where he listens to the a particularly personal and poetic form El Hadj (Mbengue) plans to return to Senegal Yacine walks the city streets at night meeting announcement of his imminent death. Harking of filmmaking. His work reflects on once he completes his studies in Paris, but with friends and listening to music, a series of back to the aesthetic delights of Senegal’s rich forgets to renew his resident papers in time, and conversations gradually bring the nomadic city- auteurist history (Sembène, Cissé), Gomis crafts existential questions of being, exile, finds himself trapped as a ‘sans papier’. Where dweller’s mysterious past into focus. Gomis’ his own mood, evoking a haunting combination the relationship of return and does El Hadj go from here? This sensitive and superb second feature returns to the theme of a of past and present; traditional and modern. departure, and, in the poetic Tey poetic film explores the theme of uprooting both man’s existential state, but with a more playfully Followed by a Q&A with Director Alain Gomis (winner of best film at FESPACO on an existential and an emotional level. deconstructed narrative than his debut L’Afrance. + Borom Sarret 2012), our universal final departure: Fri 8 Nov l 19:00 l Ritzy Cinema Followed by a Q&A with director Alain Gomis Dir. Ousmane Sembene. With Ly Abdoulay. death. We have programmed all three France/Senegal. 1963. 20min. B&W of Gomis’ features to enable the Fri 8 Nov l 20:45 l Ritzy Cinema Sembene’s fable of a poor Dakar man trying to audience to experience the evolution make a living as a cart driver is considered the of his work; seeing them in first film directed by a black African. Don’t miss chronological order provides a this rare chance to see it on the big screen. uniquely rewarding witnessing of his In association with BFI African Odysseys obsessions. All three films will be Sat 9 Nov l 14:00 l NFT1 l BFI Southbank presented by Gomis in person.

@FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK www.filmafrica.org.uk 10 Coming of age: Celebrating 21 years of Nollywood

The world’s second most prolific Hoodrush Osuofia in London parts 1 & 2 Living in Bondage parts 1 & 2 , Nollywood is Dir. Dimeji Ajibola. With Okechukwu Ukeje, Both films directed by Kingsley Ogoro. With Both films directed by Chris Obi Rapu. With challenging the way we make and Bimbo Akintola, Gabriel Afolayan. Nkem Owoh, Mara Derwent, Sebastian Hall. Francis Agu, Grace Ayozie, Chizoba Bosah. watch movies. Marking Nollywood’s Nigeria. 2012. 145min. Colour. Nigeria 2003, 2004. English language. Nigeria 1992, 1993. Igbo with English Nollywood meets Glee in this glossy musical Part one 105 minutes. Part two 84min. subtitles. Part one 162min. coming of age at 21 years, Film thriller starring OC Ukeje and Bimbo Akintola as Rated 12A Part two 120min. Colour. Rated 18 Africa presents a special Shez and Tavier: two brothers who dream of Prepare to be entertained by one of the biggest A rare chance to see the first Nollywood film programme of screenings and talks becoming music stars. They’re talented, good- and best loved Nigerian comedy movies ever! ever made, in double bill with its sequel, Living looking and ambitious, and savvy enough to When his UK-based brother dies, cocksure in Bondage 2. This epic melodrama tells the celebrating Nigeria’s booming video understand that the fame game is sometimes a Osuofia (Owoh) swaps village life for London to story of Andy (Kenneth Okonkwo), a film industry, curated by Film Africa dirty business. But when they enter a TV talent claim his inheritance. Cue lots of culture-shock businessman who joins an all-male satanic cult show, things turn seriously ugly. This gripping comedy, a scheming widow and some surprising to help him achieve greater financial success. programmer Phoenix Fry. In and entertaining film was a winner at the 2013 southeast London locations. In the equally When the cult demands the blood sacrifice of partnership with Cinema Forever. African Movie , and marks an hilarious part two, Osuofia is the toast of the his young wife, he makes a series of decisions accomplished debut for New York-trained village when he returns, and it’s the turn of his that will literally come back to haunt him. This is director Dimeji Ajibola. new British wife to be the fish out of water. an unmissable opportunity to witness the birth of SPECIAL EVENT: ‘Nollywood for Beginners’ We hope to be joined by director Dimeji Ajibola With free Nigerian food throughout the double Nigerian video film: the second largest film Phoenix Fry will lead this exciting and for a Q&A after the screening. bill. industry in the world! informative session before our screening of With free Nigerian food throughout the double Sat 2 Nov 12:00 Rich Mix Sat 9 Nov 15:00 South London Gallery classic comedy Osuofia in London. l l l l bill and an introduction by Iroko TV’s Zara Johns. Sat 9 Nov l 14:00 l South London Gallery Sun 10 Nov l 14:00 l South London Gallery Bonfires & Revolutions: An evening of politics and protest in African cinema 11

Babylon (Babylone) DOC The Battle of Tabatô (A batalha Cursed be the Phosphate DOC Something Necessary Dirs. Ismaël and Youssef Chebbi, de Tabatô) (Yel'an bu al-Phosphate) Dir. Judy Kibinge. With Susan Wanjiru, Hilda Ala Eddine Slim. UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE Jepkoech, Carolyne Chebiwott Kibet. Tunisia. 2012. 121min. Colour. Kenya/Germany. 2012. 85min. Colour. Dir. Joao Viana. With Mamadu Baio, Fatu Dir. Sami Tlili. During spring 2011, more than a million Kenya, 2007. The post-election violence is Djebaté, Imutar Djebaté. Tunisia. 2012. 78min. Colour. refugees of various nationalities fled the raging. Anne (Wanjiru) is one of the victims: Portugal/Guinea-Bissau. 2012. 80min. B&W. escalating war in Libya. Weeks after the Libyan Named the Abu Dhabi festival’s Best Arab hospitalised, with a dead husband, and her son revolution, a temporary tent city was erected The ghosts of ’s colonial past haunt Documentary when world-premiering in 2012, in a coma. A young, troubled gang member is between the Ras Jedir check-point separating this fable-like drama which, like Miguel Gomes’ Tlili’s detailed but accessible film identifies one drawn to Anne and her farm seemingly in search Tunisia and Libya to accommodate the refugees. superb Tabu (2012), finds a Portuguese film- labour dispute as a key precursor of Tunisia’s of redemption. Both need something that only Babylon’s directorial triumvirate – Ismaël, maker reflecting on his nation’s imperial legacy revolution. On January 5, 2008, a sit-in the other can give to allow them to shed the Youssef Chebbi and Ala Eddine Slim – filmed the in Africa using stylish monochrome visuals and a organised by the young and unemployed in the painful memories of their past and move on. entire process with an unflinching gaze. The playful narrative. The Battle of Tabatô’s dream- phosphate mining city of Redeyef sparked a civil Kibinge’s courageous and sensitively-observed result (deliberately free of subtitles) is a bracing, like tale of a father and daughter incorporates disobedience movement which lasted six film tackles a tough subject with grace and extraordinarily immersive experience which many documentary elements along the way, and months. The participants claimed their right to insight. resonates as a satisfyingly cinematic wealth, dignity and justice. Four years later, what places the viewer in the shoes of the tent city’s Followed by a Q&A with director Judy Kibinge, engagement with postcolonial themes. Superb remained? Open wounds, wounded souls, temporary inhabitants. hosted by Lindiwe Dovey, senior lecturer in performances from an African cast round things broken destinies. More importantly, as this film Grand Prix/International Competition – African Film at SOAS and Film Africa co- off in style. depicts with eminent grace: pride and dignity. FID Marseille 2012 founding director. Tue 5 Nov l 21:00 l Hackney Picturehouse Followed by a Q&A with director Sami Tlili. Tue 5 Nov l 21:10 l Ritzy Cinema + His To Keep (see p. 20 for details) + Paper Boat (see p. 20 for details) Tue 5 Nov l 20:00 l Rich Mix Tue 5 Nov l 19:00 l Ritzy Cinema

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2morrow Far Away DOC The Africa China Connection DOC Aya de Yopougon Black Girl (La noire de...) UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE Dirs. Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie. Dir. Ousmane Sembene. With Mbissine With Aïssa Maïga, Tella Kpomahou, Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Dirs. Jean Baptiste Saurel, Dir. Pieter van der Houwen. Tatiana Rojo, Jacky Ido. Fontaine. Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun. Netherlands. 2012. 52min. Colour France. 2013. 84min. Colour. France/Senegal. 1966. 65min. B&W. France/South Africa. 2012. 73min. Colour. This documentary looks at the impact of African Based on the eponymous comic books by Sembene’s first feature, shot in glistening This upbeat, innovative hybrid of documentary migration into China and the greater economic Marguerite Abouet, breezy animation Aya de monochrome, is the searing account of the and fiction follows the fortunes of four young impact Africans will continue to have. As Yopugon is a humorous and upbeat story of isolation of a young black domestic servant people from the Parisian suburb Saint Denis and America build fortress societies, the Chinese friendship that’s suitable for all the family. Set working in Antibes, and the first feature to be who, in 2010, had the opportunity to become recognise that ease of movement will become a against a serene atmosphere of warm colours produced and directed by an African. “For us, it reporters at the football World Cup in South key part of sustained economic development. and seasoned with popular songs, the film was necessary to become political”, said Africa. The youngsters’ highs and lows are Philosopher and political scientist Achille introduces us to Aya and her friends from the Sembene, “to become involved in a struggle captured with a compassionate eye by co- Mbembe, and Ian Goldin, former Vice-President Abidjan suburb of Yopougon (in the Ivory Coast). against all the ills of man’s cupidity, envy, directors Urcun and Saurel, whose film dares to of the World Bank & advisor to Nelson Mandela, Here, no matter what the circumstances are, the individualism, the nouveau-riche mentality, and ask the tantalisingly tough question: what awaits analyse the significance of this development. people stay optimistic by relying on all the things we have inherited from the colonial them after they return home? Followed by a Q&A with director Pieter van der neighbourhood solidarity. and neo-colonial systems.” His film bears out Followed by a Q&A with co-director Pierre- Houwen. this attitude in unforgettable fashion. Emmanuel Urcun. + La Radio (see p. 20 for details) Mon 4 Nov 18:00 Ritzy Cinema + Fuelling Poverty DOC Sat 2 Nov 19:00 Hackney Picturehouse l l Sat 9 Nov 17:00 Ritzy Cinema l l l l Dir. Ishaya Bako. Nigeria. 2012. 28min. Colour In January 2012 Nigeria saw some of the biggest protests in the country's history, an uprising inspired by widespread impoverishment. A host of heavyweight contributors weigh in on a tricky subject in this instructive short documentary. Fri 8 Nov l 19:00 l South London Gallery 13

Coz Ov Moni II (FOKN Revenge) Death Metal Angola DOC Horses of God (Les Chevaux In The Shadow of the Sun DOC UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE de Dieu) Dir. Harry Freeland. Dir. King Lu. With FOKN Bois. Dir. Jeremy Xido. With Sonia Ferreira, Dir. . With Abdelhakim Rachi, Tanzania/UK. 2012. 88min. Colour. Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek. . 73min. Colour Wilker Flores. Filmed over six years, In the Shadow of the Sun /Tunisia/Belgium/France. 2012. tells the harrowing but ultimately hopeful story The GUBA Special Achievement Award-winning Angola/USA. 2012. 90min. Colour. 115min. Colour. of two men with albinism in Tanzania pursuing duo FOKN Bois, popularly known for thanking What type of music can express the trauma of their dreams in the face of virulent prejudice. In God they are not “a ” after giving the forty years of brutal warfare? For Sonia Ferreira In Sidi Moumen, a slum district of , the midst of an escalation in brutal murders of world its first ‘Pidgen Musical’ Coz Ov Moni, are and boyfriend Wilker Flores, the answer is two brothers grow up in a golden world of people with albinism, we meet Josephat Torner, among the most well-known Ghanaian artists in obvious: death metal. This groundbreaking film football, close friendship and hard knocks. But who decides to confront the communities where the world due to their unconventional style, charts the pair’s attempts to start Angola’s first as they approach adulthood, the dreams of the killings are taking place; and 15-year-old ingenious and shocking lyrics, and progressive hard rock festival. At once social commentary, youth give way to the realities of poverty and Vedastus, whose mother was told to kill him sounds. In this uproarious sequel, the Bois are vital musical snapshot and thrilling tale of human violence. With an energy and realism that when he was born, has been bullied out of out for revenge on a machete-wielding gang resilience, Xido’s film stylishly documents a surpasses Fernando Meirelles’ City Of God, this school and rejected by his community. that ambushed, wounded, robbed and left them previously little-known scene. provocative and dazzlingly-shot film casts a for dead. compassionate eye over the sources of Official Selection International Documentary + Angola: The Birth of DOC extremism that fuelled the 2003 terrorist attacks Film Festival Amsterdam 2012. Followed by a Q&A with Mensa Ansah of FOKN A Movement in Morocco. Bois. Followed by a Q&A with director Harry Freeland. Dirs. Ana de Sousa, David Lale. Sat 2 Nov l 20:00 l Ritzy Cinema Mon 4 Nov 18:30 Rich Mix Fri 8 Nov 21:00 Hackney Picturehouse l l l l UK/Angola. 2012. 24min. Colour. Documenting the activities of Luaty Beirão, one of Angola’s most prolific hip-hop artists, this is a fascinating insight into the fight for justice in a country where opposing the government can be a matter of life and death. Thu 7 Nov l 18:45 l Hackney Picturehouse + Film Africa Live! with Dj El Moreno. Middle Bar, FREE Hackney Picturehouse. 21:00. @FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK www.filmafrica.org.uk 14 Main programme

Jeppe on a Friday DOC Kontinuasom DOC Mercy Mercy DOC Mother of George UK PREMIÈRE Dir. Óscar Martínez. UK PREMIÈRE Dir. Andrew Dosunmu. With Danai Gurira, Isaach De Bankolé, Yaya Alafia. Dirs. Arya Lalloo, Shannon Walsh. Cape Verde/. 2009. 80min. Colour. Dir. Katrine Riis Kjær. USA. 2013. 106min. Colour. Canada/South Africa. 2013. 87min. Colour. Beti lives in her homeland, Cape Verde, where Denmark. 2012. 85min. Colour. she is a dancer in the company Raiz di Polon. In Dosunmu’s follow-up to the superb Restless Filmed over a single afternoon by eight women Fraught, powerful, disturbing, and ceaselessly When she is offered the chance to join a Cape City, the director serves up another mesmeric, filmmakers in Johannesburg’s downtown east thought-provoking, Mercy Mercy is one of the Verdean music show in Lisbon and launch a visually stunning drama within a New York side, this fascinating documentary reveals most controversial films in our programme. new career for herself in Portugal, it sets off the immigrant community. restaurant disparate worlds that co-exist side by side. It follows all the participants in the process of everlasting internal conflict experienced by every owner Ayodele (Gurira) and his bride Adenike It follows the routines of five residents of Jeppe, the adoption of two children from Ethiopia to Cape Verdean: the desire to flee countered by (Alafia) are married and blessed with traditional one of South Africa’s oldest suburbs, as they Denmark over four years, including the parents the desire to return. In Martínez’ sensitive Nigerian prayers of fertility. But Adenike does not go about their day. At times, the juxtaposition who give their children up. Kjær’s film offers no portrait, these emotions are expressed and become pregnant and, under pressure from her of power and privilege with poverty and easy conclusion to the plight of the children, gathered around music, the hallmark of the mother-in-law, must take drastic measures to powerlessness makes for gruelling viewing who appear to be the last priority in the lives Cape Verdean people. save her marriage. With sumptuous but ultimately this is a profound and poignant of the adults that surround them and whose cinematography by Bradford Young (Ain’t Them snapshot of the lives, ambitions and desires attitude to their wellbeing is problematic + Dona Tututa DOC Bodies Saints), Dosunmu’s exquisitely moving of a community. throughout. Prepare to debate long into the Dir. by João Alves da Veiga. second feature captures the vibrant culture of night. Mon 4 Nov l 18:30 l Hackney Picturehouse Portugal. 2013. 55min. Colour the Yoruba community in New York. Followed by a Q&A with director Katrine Kjaer, Sun 3 Nov 20:30 Hackney Picturehouse A tender documentary profile of Cape Verdean hosted by Hannah Pool, journalist, author and l l pianist and singer Epifânia Évora. curator. Sun 3 Nov l 18:30 l Ritzy Cinema Wed 6 Nov l 21:00 l Ritzy Cinema 15

On the Edge (Sur la Planche) The Pirogue (La pirogue) The President (Le President) Sodiq DOC Dir. Leila Kilani. With Soufia Issami, Dir. Moussa Touré. With Souleymane Seye Dir. Jean-Pierre Bekolo. With Gérard Dir. Adeyemi Michael. Mouna Bahmad, Nouzha Akel. Ndiaye, Laïty Fall, Malaminé ‘Yalenguen’ Essomba, Valery Ndongo. UK. 2013. 44min. Colour. Dramé. Morocco. 2011. 110min. Colour. Cameroon. 2013. 64min. Colour. Hailing from a North Peckham estate, 20-year- By day Badia (Issami) and Imane (Bahmad) strip France/Senegal/Germany. 2012. Currently censored in its native Cameroon, old Sodiq Adeojo’s childhood dreams to be a shrimps in a factory in the port of Tangiers, by 87min. Colour. Bekolo’s characteristically stylish and intelligent doctor were on the cusp of being realised, with night they roam the back streets picking up men Moussa Touré’s visually stunning odyssey is film takes a piercing, fictionalised look at current offers from universities including King’s College. to supplement their meagre income. Kilani’s among the best films to have emerged from affairs. It’s the night before an important However, when he was charged in 2012 with gripping, hugely impressive debut feature Senegal in recent years. It tells the story of Baye summit, and the head of state vanishes into thin the gang-related shooting of an equally gifted brilliantly captures the frenetic underbelly of the Laye (Ndiaye), a retired boat captain who air. Potential heirs and overthrowers converge teenager, two promising futures were shattered contemporary city, and grasps urban youth at its reluctantly agrees to take a group of 29 African around the capitol, while bloggers, hangers-on in one stroke. With a scrupulous look at the most visceral. The performances are razor sharp men across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain aboard and tussle with the president’s evidence in the case, director Michael goes right across the board. a ‘pirogue’ (a wooden fishing boat). Their problematic legacy. Bekolo gestures to the heart of this tragic story. With an introduction by British-Moroccan ensuing passage is far from smooth. Exceptional unmistakably toward Cameroon’s own 31-year Followed by a Q&A with director Michael filmmaker Fyzal Boulifa. in the way it deals with a political hot-potato president Paul Biya, as well as the varied Adeyemi. issue (illegal immigration) in a clear-eyed, bigshots across the continent who have Thu 7 Nov 19:00 Ritzy Cinema + Archipel (see p. 19 for details) DOC compassionate manner, The Pirogue is an consolidated post-colonial power in the vacuum l l Sat 2 Nov l 21:00 l Hackney Picturehouse intense drama that’s simultaneously fiercely of leadership. contemporary and mythically haunting. Followed by a Q&A by director Jean-Pierre + Atlantiques (see p. 8 for details) Bekolo. Thu 7 Nov l 21:00 l Ritzy Cinema Screening in partnership with the Westminster conference (see. p.25 for details) Sat 9 Nov l 19:00 l Ritzy Cinema

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Fri 1 Nov 18.45 Opening Film: Of Good Report + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse p. 06 Sat 2 Nov 11.00 Family Fun Day including My Shoes + When They Slept Rich Mix p. 24 12.00 Hoodrush + Q&A Rich Mix p. 10 19.00 Aya de Yopougon + La Radio Hackney Picturehouse p. 12 20.00 Horses Of God (Les chevaux de Dieu) Ritzy p. 13 20.30 Film Africa Live! & JUJU! Night: Seeds of Creation () Upstairs at the Ritzy p. 25 21.00 Sur La Planche + Archipel Hackney Picturehouse p. 15 Sun 3 Nov 11.00 Event: The Business of Film in Africa Blue Room, BFI Southbank p. 24 12.45 Crossing Borders: Maghreb Shorts Programme Rich Mix p. 23 18.30 New African Voices: Shorts Programme Hackney Picturehouse p. 19-21 18.30 Kontinuasom + Dona Tututa Ritzy p. 14 20.30 Mother of George Hackney Picturehouse p. 14 Mon 4 Nov 18.00 Black Girl (La noire de...) Ritzy p. 12 18.30 In the Shadow of the Sun + Q&A Rich Mix p. 13 18.30 Jeppe on a Friday Hackney Picturehouse p. 14 Tue 5 Nov 18.45 Dry Season (Daratt) Hackney Picturehouse p. 07 19.00 Cursed be the Phosphate + The Paper Boat + Q&A Ritzy p. 11 20.00 Something Necessary + His to Keep + Q&A Rich Mix p. 11 21.00 The Battle of Tabato Hackney Picturehouse p. 11 21.10 Babylon Ritzy p. 11 Wed 6 Nov 18.30 The Virgin, the Copts and Me Ciné Lumière p. 18 18.30 Colonial Visions: Britain’s African Empire on Film + Discussion Ritzy p. 18 18.45 2013 Graduation Films from the ESAV (Marrakech) Hackney Picturehouse p. 22 21.00 A Screaming Man Hackney Picturehouse p. 07 21.00 Mercy Mercy + Q&A Ritzy p. 14 17

Thu 7 Nov 10.00 Secondary Schools Screening: Beleh + Kwaku Ananse Ritzy p. 24 17.30 In-depth discussion with Judy Kibinge London Film School p. 25 18.45 Death Metal Angola + Angola: Birth of a Movement Hackney Picturehouse p. 13 19.00 Sodiq + Q&A Ritzy p. 15 21.00 Film Afica Live! with DJ El Moreno (Angola) Hackney Picturehouse p. 25 21.00 The Pirogue + Atlantiques Ritzy p. 15 Fri 8 Nov 10.00 Primary Schools Screenings: My Shoes + When They Slept Hackney Picturehouse p. 24 19.00 The Africa China Connection + Fuelling Poverty + Q&A South London Gallery p. 12 19.00 L’Afrance Ritzy p. 09 20.45 Andalucia + Q&A Ritzy p. 09 21.00 Coz of Moni II (FOKN Revenge) + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse p. 13 Sat 9 Nov 10.00 African Film & Politics Conference Day 1 University of Westminster p. 25 10.30 Going Far: Workshop with Destiny Ekaragha & Bola Agbaje Blue Room, BFI Southbank p. 24 14.00 African Odysseys - Borom Sarret + Tey + Q&A BFI Southbank p. 09 14.00 Nollywood for Beginners South London Gallery p. 10 15.00 Osuofia in London South London Gallery p. 10 17.00 Touki Bouki Hackney Picturehouse p. 18 17.00 2morrow Far Away + Q&A Ritzy p. 12 19.00 The President Ritzy p. 15 19.15 Mille Soleils + Atlantiques + Big In Vietnam Hackney Picturehouse p. 08 21.00 Film Africa Live! Closing Party with DJs Fade2 & FrenchKiss Hackney Attic p. 24 Sun 10 Nov 10.00 African Film & Politics Conference Day 2 University of Westminster p. 25 14.00 Living In Bondage + Q&A South London Gallery p. 10 18.15 Closing Film: Grisgris Ciné Lumière p. 07

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Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton 1899 (BFI) 1min. Members of the ‘Savage South Africa’ troupe perform for the camera on their arrival at Southampton dock, ahead of their appearance at Earl’s Court in the ‘Greater Britain’ exhibition. Castles and Fisherfolk 1933 (BFI) 11mins. BFI National Archive BFI National © Maag Daan CROSSMEDIA An introduction to daily life in the Gold Coast, with emphasis on historical British involvement Touki Bouki – 40th Anniversary The Virgin, the Copts DOC Britain’s African Empire in the area. Production sponsored by Cadbury’s. Special Screening and Me... (La Vierge, on Film Tropical Hookworm Dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty. With Magaye les Coptes et moi…) Curated by Francis Gooding, this special 1936 (BFI) 10min. Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall. Dir. Namir Abdel Messeeh. With Siham Abdel programme highlights rarely seen Health instructional film advising on how best to Senegal. 1973. 85min. Colour. Messeeh, Namir Abdel Messeeh. colonial-era films from British archive avoid infection by the eponymous parasite. As thrilling forty years on as it ever has been, Egypt. 2011. 85min. Colour. Produced by the Bantu Educational Kinema collections, providing a rare chance to see Mambéty’s mythical, freewheeling road-movie If there’s one film at this year’s festival to which Experiment (BEKE) as part of the first series of prefigured the spirit of punk and forged a new you should bring your mother, this is it! Namir is Britain’s African colonies on film. The films intended for African audiences. direction for sub-Saharan cinema. A brief a French filmmaker of Egyptian origin. One day session will form part of the Colonial Film: West Africa Was There synopsis – two young lovers plot their route out he watches a videotape of the Virgin Mary’s Moving Images of the British Empire of Senegal – does little to prepare the viewer for 1945 (IWM) 10min. apparition in Egypt with his mother who, like project (www.colonialfilm.org.uk). The the film’s cornucopia of stunning imagery, sonic millions of other Copts (Egypt’s Christians), sees British Ministry of Information film showing the dissonance and slyly political subtext. Touki the Virgin while he sees nothing. An intrigued screenings will be followed by a panel part played by the 81(West African) Divisions in Bouki is a stone-cold classic that’s not to be Namir travels to Egypt in search of apparitions. discussion and audience Q&A with writer the Burma campaign during the Second World missed. His French producer doesn’t get it, so his and researcher Francis Gooding, War. Sat 9 Nov l 17:00 l Hackney Picturehouse mother is enlisted as producer, creating a deeply filmmaker Judy Kibinge and and Tom Rice, Mau Mau endearing home movie evoking a fast- disappearing world. lecturer in Film Studies at the University of 1954 (IWM) 19min. Film account of the Mau Mau uprising, and the PRIZE: Best Documentary APT African Film St Andrews. British response to it. Intended for British and Festival 2012 South African audiences. Wed 6 Nov l 18:30 l Ciné Lumière Giant in the Sun 1961 (BFI) 18min. Colour. A portrait of Nigeria on the eve of full independence. Wed 6 Nov l 18:30 l Ritzy Cinema Short Film Programme 19

The Baobab Award for Best Short Film A selection of short films directed by up-and- coming directors from across the continent will vie for the Baobab Short Film Award of £1000. Adamt Archipel DOC Beleh Dir. Zelalem Woldemariam. UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE With Sayat Demissie, Mulugeta Geresu. The films will be judged by Dir. Djamel Kerkar. Dir. Eka Christa Assam. Ethiopia. 2013. 18min. Colour. a jury of film professionals Morocco. 2012. 13min. B&W. Cameroon. 2013. 30min. Colour. A young Ethiopian composer and drummer deals A poetic documentary set in a tannery, where In this provocative short, the script on gender with a traumatic experience from his childhood including Nick Denes, Co- the silence of the people that work there evokes relations is well and truly flipped. Heavily when a deaf spirit appears in his life and an archipelago of modern ruins. Two silhouettes. pregnant Joffi has a bullying, good-for-nothing Director of The Palestinian inspires him to channel his memories in a new Masculine and feminine. Suspended by their husband who takes her, and pretty much direction. Film Foundation; Kate shadows. They contemplate the passing of time everything else, for granted. His laissez-faire Screens with Beleh, Kwaku Ananse, and their bodies sacrificed to the world. attitude is profoundly challenged when he Gerova, Artistic Director of Shoeshine and Split Ends as part of New awakes one morning to find the world a very Screens with African Voices shorts programme different place to the one he went to sleep in the Bird’s Eye View Festival; Sun 3 Nov l 18:30 l Hackney Picturehouse On The Edge (Sur La Planche) night before. A quirky, poignant and pertinent and Yaba Badoe, writer (see p. 15 for details) look at gender roles. Sat 2 Nov l 21:00 l Hackney Picturehouse Screens with Adamt, Kwaku Ananse, and filmmaker. The 2013 Shoeshine and Split Ends as part of New Film Africa Baobab Short African Voices shorts programme Sun 3 Nov l 18:30 l Hackney Picturehouse Film Award is generously sponsored by MOFILM

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His To Keep Kwaku Ananse Paper Boat (Markeb Waraq) La Radio UK PREMIÈRE Dir. Akosua Adoma Owusu. With Jojo Abot, UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE Koo Nimo, Grace Omaboe. Dir. Amira Tajdin. With David Nganga. Dir. Helmy Nouh. With Mirette Michael, Dir. Armand Brice Tchikamen. Ghana/Mexico/USA. 2013. 26min. Colour. Kenya. 2012. 15min. Colour. Mohamed Adel. Ivory Coast. 2012. 15min. Colour. The traditional West African fable of Kwaku In the Kenyan highlands ex-Mau Mau veteran Egypt. 2012. 17min. Colour. An old man buys a radio. Whenever he turns it Ananse is combined with the story of a young Wamiti (Nganga) sits listening to the news. The One of the main features of the Egyptian on he hears stories of destruction. He is outsider named Nyan Koronhwea, attending her British Judiciary has granted the Mau Mau revolution was that it instilled optimism and convinced the problem lies in the radio and estranged father’s funeral. Nyan’s father led two Freedom Fighters of the 1950s Uprising the excitement towards the future and confidence in takes it to a repair shop. Boni the engineer must separate lives with two wives and two families: right to sue the British government for the the possibility of change in the hearts and minds find a solution. But what if the problem is not one in Ghana, one in the . Nyan's crimes it committed against these men and their of the Egyptian people. However, the social and with the radio but something much bigger? ambivalence about her father’s double life is a families during the nation’s fight against colonial political developments since the resignation of reflection of a broader truth about the nature of Screens with rule. Overcome with the ghosts this news brings ex-President Mubarak left many frustrated, our personal relationships. back to life, Wamiti delicately delves back into feeling that the unbearable pre-revolution Aya de Youpougon his past, fighting the hurt he's been shutting out Screens with Adamt, Beleh, Shoeshine and conditions remained largely unchanged and (see p. 12 for details) for so long. Split Ends as part of New African Voices even deteriorated. The question is now how to Sat 2 Nov l 19:00 l Hackney Picturehouse shorts programme cope and what to do in the middle of the Screens with Sun 3 Nov l 18:30 l Hackney Picturehouse complex events during this particular period? Something Necessary (see p. 11 for details) Screens with Tue 5 Nov l 20:00 l Rich Mix Cursed Be The Phosphate DOC (see p. 11 for details) Tue 5 Nov l 19:00 l Ritzy Cinema 21

My Shoes (Les Souliers d’Aïd) Shoeshine Split Ends I Feel Wonderful When They Slept UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE (Quand ils dorment) Dir. Anis Lassoued, with Chema Ben Dir. Amil Shivji. With Godfrey Augustino. Dir. Akosua Adoma Owusu. UK PREMIÈRE Chaabene, Farhat Jedid. Tanzania. 2013. 24min. Colour. USA. 2011. 4min. Colour. Dir. Maryam Touzani. With Nouhaila ben Tunisia. 2012. 30min. Colour. Set in a busy Dar es Salaam street, a shoeshine An experimental short celebrating black Moumou, Mohamed Achab, Fatima-ezzahra In a small countryside village, Fallous is a boy offers us a conscious and subconscious women’s hairstyling, Split Ends I Feel Wonderful el Jouhari. 9-year-old boy with a passion for running. It is perspective of the space and people of his city chops and weaves found footage with Morocco. 2012. 18min. Colour. his vocation, his will for fighting weightlessness. ranging from the local politicians to university affectionate nods to Blaxploitation flicks and Eight year-old Sara lives with her widowed As the Aïd holidays get closer, he becomes students as well as the neighbourhood tea kaleidoscopic psychedelia. Spliced with voice- mother, Amina, two older brothers and her obsessed with a pair of winged shoes he sees in maker. This sensitive and compelling film is overs from colonial narratives and a funktastic grandfather, Hashem, to whom she is very close. a store window and he wants them for the equally successful as social commentary and as soundtrack, Akosua Adoma Owusu’s film is a When Hashem suddenly dies, as women, Sara occasion. But his poor father cannot help. an artistic depiction of the life, aspirations and warm and subtly political snapshot of the time and her mother are forbidden to spend the night First Prize Short Film FESPACO 2013 perspectives of a working child. when African- for the first time said with him before his burial the following day. Screens with Adamt, Beleh, Kwaku Ananse loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud! Whilst her mother reluctantly complies, her + When They Slept and Split Ends as part of New African Screens with Adamt, Beleh, Kwaku Ananse brothers' fears provide Sara with the perfect Sat 2 Nov l 12:00 l Rich Mix l FREE Voices shorts programme and Shoeshine as part of New African opportunity to defy the restrictions imposed by Fri 8 Nov l 10:00 l Hackney Picturehouse Sun 3 Nov l 12:00 l Hackney Picturehouse Voices shorts programme religion and tradition and be close to her beloved Sun 3 Nov l 18:30 l Hackney Picturehouse grandfather one last time. + My Shoes Sat 2 Nov l 12:00 l Rich Mix l FREE Fri 8 Nov l 10:00 l Hackney Picturehouse

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The Edge of Town Orobores The Earth is Full of Ghosts Military Service UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE Dir. Rim Meji. Dir. Tovoniaina Rasoanaivo. With Ahmed Dir. Djamel Kerkar Dir. Evrard Ngendakumana Morocco. 2013. 17min. Zaitouni, Aniss Elkohen, Oussama Oussouss. Morocco. 2013. 23min. Colour. Burundi/Morocco. 2013. 25min. Colour. Assia makes her way to the scrap metal dealer Morocco. 2013. 22min. A powerful and evocative free adaptation Set in Burundi in 1998, this film follows Patrick, at the edge of town. Why she goes, Amine, her A man finds himself in prison for drunk driving. inspired by Albert Camus’ play The who lives with his mother Flora and is ready to friend who takes her there doesnt know. Only His cellmate starts to tell him a story about Ali Misunderstanding, The Earth is Full of Ghosts enrol in the military. Flora doesn’t want her son Saîd, the garage machanic knows. Waiting to who has grown up in the Medina in Marrakech tells the story of Said as he returns home to his to go, but Patrick’s father is fighting in the meet Saîd’s mother Assia spends the day with near Djemaa El Fna. Ali wants to be a writer. mother and sister. Each are isolated in their own him in this unfamiliar place. A black and white metaphysical film noir. worlds; imprisoned, and literally incapable of rebellion… Wed 6 Nov l 18:45 l Hackney Picturehouse Wed 6 Nov l 18:45 l Hackney Picturehouse seeing the other. Wed 6 Nov l 18:45 l Hackney Picturehouse Wed 6 Nov l 18:45 l Hackney Picturehouse

These four films are a selection of the 2013 Graduation Films from L’École Supérieure des Arts Visuels (ESAV) in OneMinuteAfrica Supported by Amsterdam-based association, Theoneminute films, we Marrakech. They are in competition for the Baobab Award present films made in Africa by local people, exactly one minute long. for Best Short Film. For more check out: http://www.theoneminutes.org Crossing Borders: Maghreb Shorts Programme 23

A new generation of The Young Woman and the Zanta Clauz (Baba Noël) Sofia Teacher talented filmmakers deftly UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE Dir. Mohamed Nadif. Dir. Walid Mattar. Dir Ani Laurie. explore the quest for self- Morocco. 2007. 17min. Tunisia. 2012. 15min. UK. 2013. 15min. A shy schoolteacher lands in a remote hamlet Mattar’s well-executed film focuses on Foued, Sofia left Morocco for London to support her reliance and freedom. where he starts a new job. A seemingly an illegal immigrant in France who has just lost mother and fund the search for her missing deranged young woman relentlessly exhorts his job as a builder. Christmas is approaching brother. Living a life of fear and struggle, the Understated, tender yet those she meets to write or post a letter to her and his friend Karim has recently obtained a resolute Sofia takes the opportunity to obtain uncompromising, these husband Salah. When the teacher learns Salah well-paid position in a shopping centre, while legal papers when friends offer to facilitate an drowned attempting to illegally reach Europe, he Foued is desperate for cash for his family in arranged marriage, raw and poignant, the black are stories of young agrees to do as the villagers do and pretend the Tunisia. Dressed up as Santa Claus, he serenely and white cinematography heightens the man is still alive. Gradually, a deeper connection listens to children’s lists and poses with them in immediacy of the performances. evolves between the young woman and the Maghrebi who dream of photographs. This disguise seems the perfect We hope to be joined by Ani Laurie and BILA teacher. A poetic and wistful offering by writer- way to hide a precarious situation. (producer/actress/singer) for a Q&A. director and lead actor Nadif. Europe and of a greener + Djoûû + The Project grass. Programmed and UK PREMIÈRE UK PREMIÈRE Dir. Djamil Beloucif. presented by Rosa Abidi. Dir. Mohamed Ali Nahdi. Algeria/. 2010. 25min. Tunisia. 2008. 24min. Beloucif’s first short, in which he co-stars with Sun 3 Nov l 12:45 l Rich Mix A day in the life of a jobless and penniless young Slobodan Novakovic, is the moving encounter of drifter in Tunis, we accompany Sami a.k.a. the two men crossing a border and for whom “each Pakistani, as he wanders aimlessly through the word is a wall”. city’s streets, hanging out with friends and Winner Jury Award for Best Fiction; Young getting in trouble. With a serious allegation Audience Award, Festival CinéSud (France) pending and his guard momentarily down will Sami evade capture by the police? Actor Nahdi’s foray into directing is an assured début. @FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK www.filmafrica.org.uk 24 Film Africa Events

Film Africa Family Day Schools Programme Secondary Shorts Programme: Going Far: Talk & FREE In partnership with NUMBI Arts FREE In partnership with Picturehouse Beleh (See P.19) Workshop with Destiny and Open The Gate. Education. + Kwaku Ananse (See P.20) Ekaragha & Bola Agbaje Sat 2 Nov l 11AM-4PM l Rich Mix Bar Film Africa once again presents an Thu 7 Nov l 10:00 l Ritzy Cinema In Partnership with BFI Southbank. FREE – no booking required Event Length: Approx 90 min Key stage 3 & 4 educational programme with primary and l Sat 9 Nov l 10:30-13.00 l BFI Blue Room A fun day for the whole family featuring secondary school screenings of four Tickets: £2.50 per pupil. FREE – spaces limited. Booking essential: FREE screenings of brilliant short films My imaginative and inspiring shorts, specially Booking deadline: Friday 25 October. [email protected] Shoes and When They Slept, “The African selected from this year’s festival For Secondary Schools’ bookings, Filmmaker Destiny Ekaragha and writer Market Corner” brought to you by Open programme. The school screenings will be please contact Lucy Orr on Bola Agbaje talk about their experience of The Gate and the “NUMBI family followed by an interactive discussion [email protected] / working together on their debut feature 07961 295 846 workshops”. Drawing inspiration from around the topics arising from the films led film, Gone Too Far, and their respective contemporary African studio photography, by our very own Film Africa programmers. Primary Shorts Programme: careers as Black British young women the NUMBI Arts’ workshops will invite making it in the film and theatre worlds. participants to pose for their own My Shoes (See P.21) Their talk will be followed by a individual, family or group portrait in a + When They Slept (See P.21) motivational workshop aimed at young mise-en-scène. Bring your own props to Fri 8 Nov l 10:00 l Hackney Picturehouse people exploring how to find good stories add to the mix and take home a unique Event Length: Approx 90 min l Key stage 2 in one’s own neighbourhood. Film Africa souvenir! Tickets: £2.50 per pupil. Booking deadline: Friday 25 October. For Primary Schools’ bookings, please contact Elinor Walpole on [email protected] / 07967 047 401 25

Film Africa LIVE! Industry Forum: FREE In-depth discussion FREE African Film and Politics In partnership with Upstairs at the Ritzy The Business of Film with Judy Kibinge at LFS Conference and Hackney Attic. in Africa Thu 7 Nov l 17.30 l London Film School Sat 9 Nov l 10:00-16.00 JUJU! & Film Africa Special with Sun 10 Nov 10:00-16.00 FREE – spaces limited. Booking essential: l In partnership with the BFI Southbank, University of Westminster Seeds of Creation (Algeria) [email protected] Euromed Audiovisual. Ticket prices / £175 / £95 students (to cover Sat 2 Nov l 20:30 l Upstairs at The Ritzy Sun 3 Nov l 11:00-16.00 l BFI Blue Room Born in Kenya, Judy Kibinge lived in the US £5 FA tkt holders / £6 adv / £7 door the whole weekend, food & refreshments FREE – spaces limited. Booking essential: during her early childhood and later in the and conference documentation) A special edition of JUJU! with a [email protected] UK where she studied Communications in performance by Seeds of Creation, a Film Africa has partnered with the Manchester. After her return to Kenya, Judy fusion band led by Algerian oud player, This year Film Africa presents an industry University of Westminster’s Africa Media worked in advertising and became the percussionist and singer Seddik Zebiri. day focusing on “The Business of Film in Centre to support its 5th annual African Africa”. This FREE event will bring together region’s first black creative director of a Film Conference. This year’s conference Kuduro night with FREE key industry experts and business leaders multinational. Since 2000 she has will focus on the relationship between DJ El Moreno (Angola) from Africa and UK to map the existing dedicated herself fully to film and in 2006 African film and politics in changing global Thu 7 Nov l 21:00 Middle Bar, Hackney film and audio-visual markets in the set up a small production house, Seven. and local contexts. Jean-Pierre Bekolo – Picturehouse l FREE continent, explore investment and funding Her debut film, Dangerous Affair, received award-winning , writer, artist, DJ El Moreno brings us the contemporary opportunities and discuss training an award at the Zanzibar Film Festival in professor and social activist from sounds and rhythms of the Angolan ghetto initiatives. The forum will have a country 2003. Her medium-length thriller, Killer Cameroon – will be delivering the keynote with an energy-fuelled set of raw kuduro focus on Nigeria, which following on from Necklace, won her numerous accolades. speech using his latest film, The President tunes. the success of Nollywood, is now looking Something Necessary is her third feature (see p.15), as a case study. to upskill its film industry and improve the film. Judy founded and runs East Africa’s Film Africa Closing Party with To book tickets and for more information, quality of its output. first Film Fund, DOCUBOX. DJs Fade2 & FrenchKiss please visit: www.westminster.ac.uk Sat 9 Nov l 21:00 Hackney Attic, Hackney Picturehouse £5 FA tkt holders / £6 adv / £7 door Join us to celebrate the last Saturday of @FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK www.filmafrica.org.uk our ten-day festival. 26 The 2013 Programming Team

Suzy Gillett Rosa Abidi Joseph A. Emma Dabiri Phoenix Fry Isabel Moura Curator Rosa Abidi is an Algerian-born Adesunloye Emma Dabiri is a cultural In 2009 Phoenix set up a film Mendes Suzy Gillett is a film curator freelance film curator and Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Joseph critic, Visual Sociology Ph.D. club in Deptford for a laugh. Isabel Moura Mendes is a and film workshop producer. critic specialising in African A. Adesunloye is a filmmaker. researcher at Goldsmiths, He had so much fun that it Portuguese-Cape Verdean She is International Relations and Arab cinemas. She has He founded DreamCoat University of London and took over his life. He’s now events & cultural manager Manager at the London Film advised for the British Productions to bring together teaching fellow in the Africa run three film clubs, co- based in Edinburgh, with a School, where she produces and Festival CinéSud his interest in film and theatre Department at SOAS. Her founded New Cross & background in journalism and the annual EU MEDIA in France, and has curated for work in Africa and Europe. In doctoral research focuses on Deptford Free Film Festival media studies. Before postgraduate training the BFI Southbank, Ciné 2008 Joseph established the ways in which being and created Nollywood Now, programming for Film Africa, programmes Low Budget Film Lumière and the London Screening Africa: a project, ‘mixed-race’ is gendered. Her the UK’s first festival and for the last two years, she Forum (since 2008), and African Film Festival. Rosa designed to bring people major research interests are dedicated to Nigerian film. He was part of the leadership Making Waves (since 2011). runs regular film screenings, together in celebration of the critical race studies and lectures at University of the team of the Scottish-based Her previous curating including The Maghreb diversity of Africa through film African Diasporian Arts London and is an Africa in Motion Film Festival. includes: Film for the Cinema Series. screenings and beautiful performative cultures and executive director for The New She has collaborated with a Marrakech Biennale 2012; African food. Joseph started literatures. Catch her Black Film Collective. number of arts and film Co-curator of Women’s curating wider African film observations and wry musings www.cinema-forever.co.uk training and exchange Cinema from Tangiers to with the South London Gallery on Twitter @TheDiasporaDiva programmes between the Tehran 2008. Curator where he runs the South by or thediasporadiva.tumblr.com US/Europe and Africa; and is Mosaiques World Cinema South film programme. currently developing her own Festival 2005-2008. She is international arts residency currently directing two essay project for Cape Verde. films, Epiphany and Bazille. The Film Africa 2013 Team Thanks & Acknowledgements 27

Directorate The Royal African Society would like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals for Richard Dowden Director, RAS their generous support and commitment to Film Africa 2013. Richard May Deputy Director, RAS Kinsi Abdulleh Steven Cairns Sophia Jackson Astrid Poole Festival Management Slim Ala Eddine Oliver Carruthers Veronique Joo’ Aisenberg Alessandro Raja Gemma Haxby Office Manager, RAS Dr Sahar Ali Valerio Caruso Zara Johns Sandrine Herbert Razafinjato Sheila Ruiz Programme Manager, RAS Oladimeji Ajibola Corinne Castel Mohcine Kamal Julien Rejl Film Africa Curator Carmen Accaputo Eric Cooper Asif Khan Simon Renshaw Suzy Gillett Baff Akoto Helen Cohen Anna Kime Tom Rice Ike Anya Chris Cope Johannes Klein Rachael Robey Festival Administration Natacha Antolini Dinis Costa César Le Blond Charlotte Saluard Johanna Copping Curator’s Assistant Negede Assefa Basia Cummings Matthew Lee Alain Sembene Fadil Elobeid Programme Officer, RAS Justine Atkinson Antonin Dedet Anita Loshmanova Keith Shiri Marketing & PR Angelica Baschiera Dan Demissie Victor Mallet Ingrid Sinclair Ashley Clark Content Editor & Social Media Manager Moses Babatope Nick Denes Teemour Diop Mambety Lemn Sissay Dele Fatunla Communications Manager, RAS Yaba Badoe Esther Devos Hugo Masson Elodie Sobczak Magnus Taylor Website Manager, RAS Julie Bang Ed Fletcher Sophie Mauger David Somerset Yu Sato Logo Design Manon Bayet Laura Fortissimo Joshua McNamara Caroline Szalamacha Aquatint bsc Design & Printing Harriet Beaumont Silja Frey Sarah-Jane Meredith Laura Talsma DreamCoat Productions Ident & Trailer Robert Beeson Sumie Garcia Laura Mills Ignacio Tamayo Mashasha (Elegwa Music) Ident & Trailer Music Omar Ben Yedder Kate Gerova Megha Mohan Alite Thijsen Film Africa Consultants Clare Binns Agnes Gitau Agathe Morisse Christine Thompson Nadia Denton Festival Development, Marketing & PR Lizelle Bisschoff Noel Goodwin Miles Morland Jane Thornburn Lindiwe Dovey Film Africa Co-Founding Director Crofton Black Chris Grezo Selin Murat Natalia Trebik Namvula Rennie Film Africa Co-Founding Director Lord Paul Boateng Anna Gritz Anna de Mutiis Elias Urucu Film Africa Programmers Paul Bowman Kate Haines Jason Njoku Micallar Walker Rosa Abidi Aurelie Brault Briony Hanison Lucy Orr Lucy Walpoe Joseph Adesunloye Richard Briggs Oli Harbottle Andrew Papworth Frances Williams Emma Dabiri Simon Bright Jessica Hope Caitlin Pearson Doreen Yomoah Phoenix Fry Fleur Buckley Hannah Horner Filipa Perira Isabel Moura Mendes Leah Byrne Chikwe Ihekweazu Hannah Pool

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BFI Southbank Film Africa Belvedere Road, Southbank, London SE1 8XT Royal African Society Box office: 020 7928 3232 36 Gordon Square Book online: www.bfi.org.uk London WC1H 0PD Ticket prices: £6 (for all African Odysseys screenings) Ciné Lumière Film Africa 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT W: www.filmafrica.org.uk Box office: 020 7871 3515 E: [email protected] Book online: http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/ T: 020 3073 8319 Ticket prices: £10/£8 CONC @FilmAfrica [#FilmAfrica] Hackney Picturehouse facebook/FilmAfricaUK 270 Mare Street, London E8 1HE Box office: 0871 902 5734 Royal African Society Book online: www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse W: www.royalafricansociety.org Ticket prices: £7.50-£11.50 / £6.50-£10.50 CONC E: [email protected] Rich Mix T: 020 3073 8335 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA @RoyAfriSoc Box office: 020 7613 7498 facebook/RoyAfriSoc Book online: www.richmix.org.uk Ticket prices: £9.50 / £7.00 CONC Ritzy Cinema Oval, Coldharbour Lane, London SW2 1JG Multi Buy Deal Make the most of Film Africa 2013 with Box office: 0781 902 5739 this buy-3-tickets-get-1-FREE deal Book online: www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Ritzy_Picturehouse Ticket prices: £7.50-£11.50 / £6.50-£10.50 CONC offered by the Hackney Picturehouse and The Ritzy Cinemas. Just quote “Film South London Gallery Africa Multi Buy Deal” when booking 67 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH your tickets and enjoy watching as many Box office: 020 7703 6120 films as you can! Book online: http://www.southlondongallery.org Ticket prices: £5/£3 CONC (for all Film Africa screenings & events) Film Africa Venue Map, London, 1-10 November 2013 29

CINÉ LUMIÈRE Station: South Kensington. Buses: 14, 414, 49, 70, 74, 345, 360, C1 BFI Station: Waterloo. Buses: 1, 4, 26, 68, 76, 77, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 211, 243, 341, 381, 507, 521, RV1 Hackney Picturehouse Station: Hackney Central. Buses: 30, 38, 48, 55, 106, 236, 242, 253, 254, 276, 277, 394, D6, W15 Richmix Stations: Shoreditch Highstreet & Liverpool Street. Buses: 26, 35, 47, 48, 67, 78, 135, 149, 242, 243 Ritzy Brixton Station: Brixton. Buses: 2, 3, 35, 45, 109, 118, 133, 159, 196, 250, 322, 345, 355, P4, P5 South London Gallery Station: Peckham Rye. Buses: 12, 36, 171, 343, 345, 436.

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2morrow Far Away 12 E M S The Earth is Full of Ghosts 22 Mau Mau 18 A Screaming Man 7 A The Edge of Town 22 Military Service 22 (Un homme qui crie) Adamt 19 [En dehors de la ville] Mille Soleils 8 Shoeshine 21 The Africa China Connection 12 Mercy Mercy 14 Sodiq 15 Andalucia 9 F Mother of George 14 Sofia 23 Angola: Birth of A Movement 13 Fuelling Poverty 12 My Shoes (Les Souliers d’Aïd) 21 Something Necessary 11 Archipel (Archipelago) 19 Split Ends I Feel Wonderful 21 Atlantiques 8 G N Aya De Youpougon 12 Giant in the Sun 18 T Grisgris 7 O Tey (Aujord’hui) 9 B Of Good Report 6 Touki Bouki 18 Babylon (Babylone) 11 H On the Edge (Sur la Planche) 15 Tropical Hookworm 18 The Battle of Tabatô 11 His To Keep 20 Orobores 22 (A batalha de Tabatô) Hoodrush 10 Osuofia in London 10 U Beleh 19 Horses of God 13 Big In Vietnam 8 (Les chevaux de Dieu) P V Black Girl (La Noire de) 12 Paper Boat (Markeb Waraq) 20 The Virgin, the Copts and Me 18 Borom Sarret 9 I The Pirogue (La pirogue) 15 (La Vierge, les Coptes et moi) In The Shadow Of The Sun 13 The President 15 C The Project 23 W Castles and Fisherfolk 18 J West Africa Was There 18 Coz Ov Moni II (FOKN Revenge) 13 Jeppe On A Friday 14 Q When They Slept 21 Cursed be the Phosphate 11 (Yel'an bu al-Phosphate) K R X Kontinuasom 14 La Radio 20 D Kwaku Ananse 20 Y Dry Season (Darratt) 7 The Young Woman and the Teacher 23 Death Metal Angola 13 L Djoûû 23 Landing of Savage South Africa Z Dona Tututa 14 at Southampton 18 Zanta Clauz (Baba Noël) 23 L’Afrance 9 Living in Bondage 10 31

@FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK www.filmafrica.org.uk 1 Film Africa launches 3x3 – a focus on 3 directors and their 3 key films

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