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2 INTRODUCTION CONTENTS

Contemporary African cinema continues to develop at great Marking the 60th anniversary of Algeria’s revolution, Film Africa Opening & Closing Night Galas...... 4 speed, increasingly gaining world-wide recognition. We at The presents a special programme of over 15 films, curated by Rosa Royal African Society are delighted to present the fourth edition Abidi. The first showcase of its kind in the UK, this programme South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour...... 5 of our annual Film Africa festival, showcasing our pick of the highlights the fresh, whimsical and perceptive work of a new Algerian Cinema: Towards a New Wave ...... 7 best of this growing wave of African film and filmmakers, generation of Algerian filmmakers who are unmistakably highlighting their diversity, creativity and vision. shifting the country’s cinematic landscape. Main Programme...... 10

Baobab Award for Best Short Film...... 17 This year we have programmed a whopping 85 titles from 23 Through our Baobab Award for Best Short Film and the rest different African countries, including World, European and UK of the shorts programme, we bring focus to the prolific and African Metropolis Shorts ...... 20 premieres. From action-packed thrillers through to poignant outstanding work of emerging filmmakers who find expression dramas, contemplative documentaries and inspiring shorts, we through this form. Just as important as the feature films, Short Film Programme ...... 21 have a great range of films for audiences of all cinematic tastes. the shorts are a brilliant display of talent from all across the Events Programme ...... 26 continent and the diaspora. Politics and the arts - especially music and literature - feature Festival Calendar...... 28 prominently in our programme, as do women-centred stories, We are also very pleased to welcome a number of accomplished urban narratives, and important historical commemorations. filmmakers to present their work and take part in our Q&As and Film Africa 2014 Team...... 30 panels, including Tala Hadid, whose debut feature The Narrow Within the latter fall our major strands ‘South Africa at 20: The Venues & Contact...... 32 Freedom Tour’, ‘Algerian Cinema: Towards A New Wave’ and Frame of Midnight is opening the festival; Yaba Badoe, who our special double-bill screening marking the 20th anniversary has documented the work and life of leading Ghanaian writer Map...... 33 since the genocide in Rwanda. Ama Ata Aidoo; esteemed Nigerian director Kunle Afolayan; and Algerian filmmaker Belkacem Hadjadj, whose historical biopic Index...... 34 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of democracy in South Africa. Fadhma n’Soumer launches our Algerian strand. To commemorate this landmark date, Film Africa has joined forces with the rest of the UK African film festivals in the UK – Beyond the films, we once again bring you a vibrant series Africa in Motion in Scotland, Afrika Eye in Bristol, Watch-Africa of events, including our Film Africa LIVE! music nights, the in Wales, and the Cambridge African Film Festival – to organise Industry Forum, our schools programme, masterclasses and a nation-wide season showcasing the best South African educational workshops. Don’t miss out! We look forward to cinema, taking place from October 2014 to February 2015. welcoming you. Some of the key titles are screening as part of Film Africa.

3 OPENING & CLOSING NIGHT FILMS

THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT (ITAR EL-LAYL) TIMBUKTU PREVIEW Dir. Tala Hadid Dir. Abderrahmane Sissako Morocco/France/UK. 2014. 93min. Colour. French/Arabic with English subtitles. France/Mauritania. 2014. 100min. Colour. Arabic/English/French/Tamashek with English subtitles.

This dazzling debut feature from Moroccan/Iraqi director, Tala Hadid, is an intriguing drama Not far from Timbuktu, recently occupied by militant jihadists, Kidane lives peacefully in that centres on the intersecting destinies of multiple characters living on the fringes of the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and the family shepherd, Issan. In the existence. Young orphan Aïcha finds herself at the mercy of an abusive trafficking criminal culturally rich city of Timbuktu, the people suffer - music, laughter, cigarettes and football and his conflicted girlfriend. Brave and courageous, Aïcha is determined to run away. The have all been banned and unveiled women are chastised. The local imam calmly argues unlikely trio soon cross paths with Zacaria, a Moroccan/Iraqi writer, who has left everything against their narrow, ultra-orthodox dogma, but he has little influence over the religious behind in search of his missing brother. Rescuing Aïcha from her captors, Zacaria leaves intruders. Back in the dunes, an unfortunate incident draws Kidane into the heart of the her in the care of Judith, a French teacher with whom he shared a passionate love affair. historic city and its new brutal regime. Timbuktu uses its interrelated characters to condemn Taking us on a visually resplendent journey across Morocco, Istanbul, the plains of Kurdistan intolerance and challenge the oppression of diversity brought about by fundamentalist and beyond, The Narrow Frame of Midnight follows the intertwined lives of these central extremism. With stunning cinematography, Timbuktu confirms Abderrahmane Sissako’s status characters. With self-assured directorial control and a totally new aesthetic, Hadid skilfully as one of the true humanists of contemporary cinema. weaves an understated story of love, loss and longing while drawing an unsettling portrait of a land riven by violence, fundamentalism and war. Preceded by winner announcement of the 2014 Baobab Award for Best Short Film.

Followed by a Q&A with director Tala Hadid. Sun 9 Nov | 18:15 | Ciné Lumière

Fri 31 Oct l 18:30 l Hackney Picturehouse

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COME BACK, AFRICA 1994: THE BLOODY MIRACLE DOC FELIX SOFT VENGEANCE: ALBIE SACHS & THE NEW Dir. Lionel Rogosin LONDON PREMIERE Dir. Roberta Durrant SOUTH AFRICA UK PREMIERE DOC South Africa. 1959. 95min. B&W. English, Dir. Meg Rickards and Bert Haitsma South Africa. 2013. 97min. Colour. English, Dir. Abby Ginzberg Afrikaans with English subtitles. South Africa. 2013. 95min. Colour. English. Xhosa with English subtitles. South Africa/USA. 2014. 84min. Colour. English. A jarring exposé of a carefully concealed As South Africa prepares to celebrate 13-year-old Felix Xaba dreams of becoming Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and environment of injustice, Come Back, its 20th anniversary of the advent of a saxophonist like his late father, but his freedom fighter, finally has his inspiring story Africa sets out to capture the lives and freedom and democracy in 1994, it’s hard mother Lindiwe thinks jazz is the Devil’s told on film. Set against the dramatic events haunting images of of an oppressed, but to believe the ‘Mandela miracle’ nearly music. When Felix leaves his township leading to the overthrow of the apartheid resilient, people. Secretly filmed in the didn’t happen. In an orgy of country-wide friends to take up a scholarship at an regime in South Africa, Soft Vengeance black township of Sophiatown, much of the violence, some were intent on derailing the elitist private school, he defies his mother provides a comprehensive overview of the script was improvised by non-professional first free elections. Now, for the first time, and turns to two ageing members of his brave sacrifices made by Sachs and other key actors who lived there. The result is an those responsible for countless deaths and father’s old band, the Bozza Boys, to help members of the freedom struggle. Infused authentic representation of the lives and widespread violence explain how they nearly him prepare for the school jazz concert. His with the uplifting voice of the man himself, times of the film’s subjects. Seen as potent brought South Africa to its knees. 1994: dream is to become “king of the sax”, like Abby Ginzberg’s documentary is a testament anti-apartheid propaganda, its power and The Bloody Miracle is a chilling look at what his late father. to the integrity of the fight for a New South integrity was considered so dangerous that these hard men did to thwart democracy Africa and a world of peace. An emotive film the film’s most memorable guest – Miriam and how they have now made an uneasy Part of our schools programme, in that recognizes the power and endurance of Makeba – was to be exiled from South Africa peace with the ‘Rainbow Nation’ in their partnership with Picturehouse Education. the human spirit at its best. for the next thirty years for her association. own different ways. Followed by an interactive session led by Usifu Jalloh. + BEREA (see p.20) Sat 1 Nov | 18:30 | Ritzy Brixton Followed by a Q&A with director Meg Rickards. Wed 5 Nov | 10:00 | Hackney Picturehouse Wed 5 Nov | 18:30 | Hackney Picturehouse

Sat 1 Nov | 20:30 | Ritzy Brixton

5 MINERS SHOT DOWN DOC HEAR ME MOVE LONDON PREMIERE FOUR CORNERS PREVIEW FUTURE SOUND OF MZANSI DOC Dir. Rehad Desai Dir. Scottnes L. Smith Dir. Ian Gabriel LONDON PREMIERE South Africa. 2014. 86min. Colour. English, South Africa. 2014. 108min. Colour. English, South Africa. 2013. 114min. Colour. Afrikaans, Dir. Lebogang Rasetuba & Spoek Mathambo Zulu with English subtitles. Zulu with English subtitles. English with English subtitles. South Africa. 2014. 98min. Colour. English, August 2012, Marikana. Workers from one of Here is South Africa’s first sbujwa dance A multi-thread coming-of-age drama set Xhosa, Zulu, Tswana with English subtitles. South Africa’s biggest mines begin a strike movie. It follows Muzi, a mild-mannered in a unique and volatile South African sub- Future Sound of Mzansi interrogates the for better wages against their employer, accounting student and the son of a famous culture. At times raw and violent, at times South African cultural landscape through British company Lonmin. Six days later, township pantsula dancer. Muzi is at a crux touching and true, the four lives of Faraken, the lens of its burgeoning electronic music police brutally suppress the strike leaving in his life, supporting his mother while also Leila, Tito and Gasant converge around scene, presented by the internationally 34 miners shot dead and scores more pursuing his dream of becoming a dancer. Ricardo, a young man whose promising acclaimed artist Spoek Mathambo. injured. Miners Shot Down pieces together Balancing family, friendship, ambitions and future out of a world of violence is being Featuring a feast of talent from what has what happened in those six days through new love, Muzi embarks on a brave journey threatened by the dangerous allure of gang become the country’s staple of popular TV archive, police footage, interviews with that will lead him to the truth about his culture. Weaving universal themes of love, culture, the film showcases an array of politicians, the miners and the lawyers father’s life and death. But he also finds loss, kinship, betrayal and redemption musicians, DJs and producers, including representing them, revealing a devastating himself embroiled in a bitter rivalry that with authentically raw performances and Aero Manyelo, Black Coffee, Christian picture of the power structures governing will test him to his core. Hear Me Move is an deft direction, Four Corners is an intensely Tiger School, Rude Boys and many more. present-day South Africa. After the country’s energetic tour de force celebrating the power immersive viewing experience into an Immersing the audience in the different first post-apartheid massacre, South Africa of sbujwa street dance and the complex exceptional world. realities of a country still steeped in poverty, will never be the same again. path of young a South African man. crime and injustice, the documentary looks + SIX (see p.23) to the creative pioneers who are sculpting + TO THE ONE I LOVE (see p.24) + DANCING IN A NIGHTMARE (see p.21) the future sound of Mzansi: South Africa. Followed by a Q&A with director Ian Gabriel. Wed 5 Nov | 20:30 | Hackney Picturehouse Followed by a Q&A with the film’s Sat 8 Nov | 18:30 | Hackney Picturehouse choreographer Paul Modjadji. Fri 7 Nov | 20:30 | Hackney Picturehouse

Fri 7 Nov | 18:30 | Hackney Picturehouse

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RESISTANCE: the fight for freedom and independence at either end of French colonisation in Algeria. DOCUMENTING THE PAST: three imaginative pieces that enrich the tapestry of collective memory.

FADHMA N’SOUMER EUROPEAN PREMIERE THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (LA BATTAGLIA DI TARZAN, DON QUICHOTTE AND US (TARZAN, Algerian decides to investigate. Although no Dir. Belkacem Hadjadj ALGERI) DON QUICHOTTE ET NOUS) UK PREMIERE archives or documents remain, a few traces Algeria. 2014. 116min. Colour. Amazigh, Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo Dir. Hassen Ferhani DOC have survived collective oblivion. French, Arabic with English subtitles. Italy/Algeria. 1966. 121min. B&W. French, Algeria. 2013. 18min. Colour. Arabic with Arabic, English with English subtitles. English subtitles. + FRANTZ FANON: MEMORIES FROM THE Algeria, 1847: at the end of the epic ASYLUM (FRANTZ FANON: MÉMOIRE resistance of Emir Abdelkader, the French Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1966 Venice Ambling along the Cervantes district of D’ASILE) UK PREMIERE DOC colonial army turns its attention to Kabylia, Film Festival, Pontecorvo’s film focuses on Algiers, from the Jardin d’Essai where Dir. Abdenour Zahzah whose people remain rebellious and a battle which took place in 1957 between the first Tarzan film was shot in 1923, Algeria. 2002. 54min. Colour. B&W. French, unconquered. As the French prepare for the the French army and the Algerian National to the Cervantes cave where the world Arabic with English subtitles. conquest, resistance is being organised with Liberation Front (FLN). A riveting piece of famous author prepared his escape from A philosopher, revolutionary and theorist, the contribution of fighters from nearby lands, cinéma vérité, The Battle of Algiers has Algeria, Ferhani teases out the interplay of Frantz Fanon’s work inspired independence including Sharif Boubeghla. It is in this world elicited strong emotional responses and was subjective reality, legend and local history. movements over decades and he remains that Fadhma n’Soumer rises to prominence. banned in France for many years. It has since An understated and charming film. today one of the most influential thinkers Brought up in a family of scholars, Fadhma been appropriated by diverse camps: French of post-colonial theory. Zahzah’s rich and reveals an exceptional personality from a General Aussaresses has allegedly used it + IN THE SILENCE, I FEEL THE EARTH ROLL original piece alternates between the young age, defiantly rejecting 19th century to train officers to torture; the Stop the War (DANS LE SILENCE, JE SENS ROULER LA reconstitution of Fanon’s life, an examination patriarchal traditions for spiritual pursuits. In Coalition screened it as a message of hope DOC TERRE) UK PREMIERE of his theories of identity and race, and this stunning historical biopic, Hadjadj brings against US/British forces; the US government Dir. Mohamed Lakhdar Tati present-day Joinville Hospital in Blida Algeria, to life the extraordinary story of a mystic and has brandished it as a “manual” of how to France/Algeria. 2010. 56min. Colour. Arabic, where Fanon practised as a psychiatrist. resistance leader, called by the French the beat a guerrilla battle but lose a political war. French with English subtitles. ‘Joan of Arc of Kabylia’. A masterpiece not to be missed, The Battle In 1939, the end of the Spanish Civil Introduced by Dr Karima Laachir, Senior of Algiers is still as powerful and politically War forced thousands of men, woman Lecturer and Chair of the Centre for Cultural, Followed by a Q&A with director Belkacem relevant today as it was over forty years ago. and children to flee Spain. The French Hadjadj. Literary and Postcolonial Studies at SOAS. administration in Algeria opened up camps Sat 1 Nov | 21:00 | Hackney Picturehouse to house them. Seventy years later, a young Sun 2 Nov | 12:00 | Rich Mix Sat 1 Nov | 18:00 | Hackney Picturehouse

7 LIFE AND DEATH IN THE 90S: insightful and affecting award-winning shorts. PROTESTS AND REVOLUTIONS: civil society’s forgotten stories.

TOMORROW, ALGIERS? (DEMAIN, ALGER?) + THE DAYS BEFORE (LES JOURS D’AVANT) BEFORE CROSSING THE HORIZON (AVANT DE + EQUIVOCAL CHRONICLES (CHRONIQUES

UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE FRANCHIR LA LIGNE D’HORIZON) DOC ÉQUIVOQUES) UK PREMIERE DOC Dir. Amin Sidi-Boumediène Dir. Karim Moussaoui UK PREMIERE Dir. Lamine Ammar-khodja Algeria. 2011. 20min. Colour. Arabic, French France/Algeria. 2013. 47min. Colour. Arabic Dir. Habiba Djahnine Algeria. 2012. 60min. Colour. Arabic, French with English subtitles. with English subtitles. France/Algeria. 2010. 64min. Colour. Arabic, with English subtitles. Three disaffected youths hang out in their Young Djaber and Yamina are neighbours French with English subtitles. A series of chronicles about the celebration neighbourhood. They are discussing their best on a housing estate near Algiers in the mid- In the past few years, some have wondered of the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian friend’s imminent trip abroad as well as a 1990s. Meeting the opposite sex is riddled why Algeria has remained “unaffected” by independence in 1962; equivocal fragments curious event due to take place the next day: with so many difficulties, they have almost the Arab Spring. In this rare and prescient as stories that resonate to form a complex no one anticipates that it will herald a turning stopped believing it possible. However, what documentary, Djahnine explores the popular mosaic of the city of Algiers. Ammar- point in Algeria’s contemporary history. had previously been only a muffled and protests that unfolded in Algeria between khodja’s wanderings are as uncertain as distant violence erupts at their doorstep, 1988 and 2010, the year Tunisia began its they are bold, his investigation of society a + WE WILL NOT DIE (ON NE MOURRA changing their lives forever. Jasmine Revolution. Committed citizens, these springboard for his own idiosyncratic and PAS) UK PREMIERE grassroots militants candidly speak of their provocative questioning. Dir. Amal Kateb Followed by a Q&A with director Karim experiences, their words etched against their France. 2010. 21min. Colour. Arabic, French Moussaoui. country’s tormented contemporary history. Followed by a discussion with Hamza with English subtitles. Hamouchene, Algerian activist, writer Friday’s prayer, Algeria 1994. Journalist Salim Mon 3 Nov | 18:00 | Hackney Picturehouse and co-founder of the Algeria Solidarity is returning to his hometown of Oran after an Campaign (ASC). assignment in Kabul. He joins his lover Houria who has anxiously been awaiting his return Mon 3 Nov | 20:30 | Hackney Picturehouse in a hideout. To celebrate their reunion, Salim pulls out a bottle of wine brought back from Afghanistan. The trouble is, Houria doesn’t have a corkscrew.

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AND LIFE GOES ON: beautifully observed shorts quietly reflecting on contemporary life.

UZZU UK PREMIERE DOC + ANOTHER ORDINARY DAY (UNE JOURNÉE THE DESERT FOXES (A QUOI RÊVENT LES The Panafrican Festival of Algiers (Le Dir. Sonia Ahnou ORDINAIRE) UK PREMIERE FENNECS?) UK PREMIERE DOC Festival Panafricain d’Alger 1969) DOC Algeria. 2011. 22min. Colour. Amazigh, Arabic Dir. Bahia Allouache Dir. Sarah Tikanouine Dir. William Klein with English subtitles. Algeria. 2012. 22min. Colour. Arabic with France/Algeria. 2014. 48min. Colour. Arabic, Algeria/France. 1969. 90min. Colour. French, Let’s talk about love: Ahnou invites a group of English subtitles. French with English subtitles. Arabic with English subtitles. university students and encourages them to Salima has invited three girlfriends for In this intimate documentary, we meet This little known masterpiece of a discuss the topic. Simple and illuminating. tea. Her brother and his friends are on the the players of the first Algerian women’s documentary by the photographer, painter terrace mending a satellite dish. It is 10 national football team, some of whom live and graphic artist William Klein plunges + TELL ME (GOULILI) UK PREMIERE May 2012 in Algiers, the day of a decisive in France joining the squad for international us into the very heart of the 1st Panafrican Dir. Sabrina Draoui presidential election… games. Yet, French or Algerian, they share Cultural Festival held in Algeria in 1969. France. 2009. 16min. Colour. French with the same passion and commitment to this This historic festival brought a global English subtitles. + THE WINDOW (LE HUBLOT)* UK PREMIERE sport. Winners of the first Arab Nations Cup spotlight on African culture and arts, The alarm goes off, a young woman Dir. Anis Djaad in 2006 and proud of their achievements, celebrating the liberation of African nations mechanically readies herself for the day. Algeria. 2012. 20min. Colour. Arabic with they nonetheless remain concerned about from colonial rule and calling for the same Doubts and desires surface, along with the English subtitles. their future as footballers. Tikaouine’s freedom for the rest of the continent. The burning question: what to do with one’s body Two unemployed and disaffected youths piece successfully captures the players’ spirit of the documentary is: “African culture when one’s soul is stifled within it? only have the view of the sea to expand their camaraderie, their hopes and their dreams will be revolutionary, or it will not be”. otherwise bleak horizon. The construction of and what it means to be a woman and a a new building threatens to obstruct their footballer in contemporary Algerian society. Screening in collaboration with Culturama. + SQUARE PORT SAID UK PREMIERE vista to life. Followed by a discussion with Hamza Dir. Faouzi Boudjemai Screening in collaboration with The Hamouchene, Algerian activist, writer and Algeria/France. 2011. 5min. Colour. Arabic *Shortlisted for the 2014 Baobab Award Maghreb Cinema Series and Culturama. co-founder of the Algeria Solidarity Campaign with English subtitles. (see p.19). Screening in collaboration with Followed by a Q&A with director Sarah (ASC), and Kevin Bismarck Cobham, member On a bus, a young man, a young woman and The Maghreb Cinema Series. Tikanouine + Film Africa LIVE! (see p.27) of the legal and constitutional committee of the a child enter into silent communication: a National African People’s Parliament. brief and sweet encounter. Wed 5 Nov | 18:15 | The Roxy Wed 5 Nov | 20:00 | The Roxy Sat 8 Nov | 16:00 | Ritzy Brixton Thu 6 Nov | 18:45 | Genesis Cinema 9 MAIN PROGRAMME

100% DAKAR – MORE THAN ART DOC ADY GASY: THE MALAGASY WAY DOC AFRICA: A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY - DOC THE ART OF AMA ATA AIDOO DOC UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE EPISODE 8: THE LEGACY (FREE) UK PREMIERE Dir. Sandra Krampelhuber Dir. Lova Nantenaina UK. 1984. 60min. Colour. English. Dir. Yaba Badoe Austria/Senegal. 2014. 62min. Colour. French France/Madagascar. 2014. 84min. Colour. This final episode of Basil Davidson’s 1984 Ghana/USA/UK. 2014. 78min. Colour. English with English subtitles. Malagasy, French with English subtitles. African history series explores the challenges subtitles. A vibrant portrait of one of West Africa’s Boldly imagining a world where we don’t look and successes of the newly independent Described as a trailblazer for an entire most lively creative arts scenes, 100% to academics and policy experts for answers African states in the aftermath of colonial generation of writing talent, including Dakar – More Than Art follows the young on how to survive an economic crisis, Ady rule. Through interviews with statesmen, internationally acclaimed Nigerian writer artists who see themselves as agents of Gasy follows artists, farmers and craftsmen including Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Shehu Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Yaba Badoe’s change for their generation. Featuring fashion as the wise voices building a new society. Shagari in Nigeria and Leopold Senghor riveting documentary follows the great Ama designers, Hip Hop musicians, graffiti artists, This poetic documentary welcomes you to the in Senegal, Basil Davidson looks at how Ata Aidoo over the course of an eventful a photographer, an art blogger, dancers Malagasy way of life where proverbs decorate the continent is seeking ways of coming to year. We join Aidoo as she travels home to and many other cultural entrepreneurs, this speech; where from used cans, maracas and terms with its colonial past. Covering rapid her ancestral village in Ghana, is feted at a exuberant documentary reveals a burgeoning oil lamps are made, and with zebu bones urbanisation, resource-dependent economies, Colloquium in her honour in the United States community who stand for a passionate, from the dump, soap and medication are unemployment and patrimonialist politics, and attends the premiere of her seminal play collective and creative fight against all created. Welcome to a world where despite the Davidson’s concluding episode is as relevant Anowa. The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo celebrates economic and political burdens in the name of daily adversity, music, joie de vivre, fraternal today as it was 30 years ago. and reflects on the artistic contribution of unity – “l’union fait la force”. support and, above all, a sense of creative one of Africa’s most important female writers recycling thrives. Screening in partnership with the Centre working today. + UNDER THE STARRY SKY (see p.16) of African Studies. Followed by a panel + THE THIRD HAND (see p.23) discussion with Mick Csacky, Executive + KEN BUGUL – NOBODY WANTS HER Followed by a Q&A with director Producer of the series, and Gus Casely- (see p.13) Sandra Krampelhuber. Followed by a Q&A with director Hayford, Cultural Historian and Research Lova Nantenaina. Associate at the Centre of African Studies. Followed by a Q&A with director Yaba Badoe. Tues 4 Nov | 18:30 | Hackney Picturehouse Sun 2 Nov | 18:30 | Hackney Picturehouse Wed 5 Nov | 19:00 | SOAS Sat 1 Nov | 12:00 | Rich Mix

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ASNI: COURAGE, PASSION & GLAMOUR DAKAN DIFRET PREVIEW A DOOMED GENERATION (OULED DOC IN ETHIOPIA LONDON PREMIERE DOC Dir. Mohamed Camara Dir. Zeresenay Berhane Mehari AMMAR) EUROPEAN PREMIERE Dir. Rachel Samuel Guinea. 1997. 87min. Colour. French with USA/Ethiopia. 2014. 99min. Colour. Amharic Dir. Nasreddine Ben Maati Ethiopia. 2013. 80min. Colour. Amharic with English subtitles. with English subtitles. Tunisia. 2014. 61min. Colour. Arabic with English subtitles. Manga and Sory are deeply in love, but their Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright English subtitles. A documentary about the extraordinary love is an unspoken taboo in their society. 14-year-old girl is on her way home from Through the testimonies of five bloggers jailed artist, Asnaketch Worku, who is as much a The two young men battle family and societal school when men on horses swoop in and a few days before the January 14th Revolution cultural icon to Ethiopians as Billie Holiday prejudice as they struggle to hang on to one kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and in Tunisia, A Doomed Generation charts the is to Americans and Edith Piaf to the French. another. But will their love survive? Widely tries to escape, but ends up shooting her struggle of cyber dissidents against Ben Asnaketch lived her life on the edge of her considered the first gay film from West Africa, would-be husband. In her village, the practice Ali’s censorship. This insightful documentary artistry, over the edge of her passions. She Dakan was shot on location in Guinea and of abduction into marriage is common and one traces the bloggers’ activism and mobilisation brought high standards to theatre and premiered at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival of Ethiopia’s oldest traditions. Meaza Ashenafi, through the web and their influence over excitement to music in conservative Ethiopia in I997. Authentic and heart-breaking, an empowered and tenacious young lawyer, social media networks. It is also a report of through the 1950 and 60s. Her gift and Dakan (meaning destiny) is a compassionate arrives from the city to represent Hirut and the disillusionment of the Tunisian youth who, transparent nature made her infectious to portrayal of the gay experience in Guinea in argues that she acted in self-defence. Based in the aftermath of the Revolution, have been audiences not only in Ethiopia but also around the 1990s. on a real-life story, Difret goes beneath the deprived of their aspirations for freedom and the world. layer of polite social customs to explore an democracy. + THE OTHER WOMAN (see p.20) aggressively rooted patriarchy that perpetuates + NATSANAT (see p.22) DOC abuse and injustice for women in Ethiopia. +SPRING SHOOTS (see p.23) In partnership with South by South, Exploring the complexity of a country’s journey +VIRTUAL (see p.25) Sat 8 Nov | 16:30 | Hackney Picturehouse programmed by Joseph A. Adesunloye, and towards equal rights, Difret portrays the supported by Africa Rise at Naz Project. courageous generation of women that are Wed 5 Nov | 18:30 | Ritzy Brixton Followed by a panel discussing LGBT rights spearheading this necessary transformation. in Africa. Sun 2 Nov | 18:00 | Ritzy Brixton Fri 7 Nov | 19:00 | South London Gallery

11 FEVERS (FIÈVRES) UK PREMIERE THE FORGOTTEN KINGDOM PREVIEW HORIZON BEAUTIFUL I LOVE KUDURO UK PREMIERE DOC Dir. Hicham Ayouch Dir. Andrew Mudge Dir. Stefan Jäger Dir. Mário Patrocínio France/Morocco/UAE/Qatar. 2014. 90min. South Africa/Lesotho/USA. 2013. 102min. Switzerland/Ethopia. 2013. 91min. Colour. Angola/Portugal. 2014. 94min. Colour. Colour. French with English subtitles. Colour. Southern Sotho with English subtitles. English, Amharic with English subtitles. Portuguese with English subtitles. In and out of foster homes since the age of This multi award-winning feature (including In this feel-good comedy for all the family we Kuduro (which literally means ‘hard ass’) is five, 13 year old Benjamin is at war against Best Picture Winner at Woodstock Film meet Ethiopian street kid Admassu, a spritely an urban cultural movement born in Angola the world. When his mother goes to jail and Festival) follows young Atang who returns schemer with hopes of escaping poverty in the last decade of the country’s civil war. reveals the existence of his biological father, from the city of Johannesburg to the remote, through football stardom. Such an opportunity Created in the raves of downtown Luanda, Benjamin sees a way out and agrees to live mountainous village of his birth in Lesotho arises in the form of Franz, an unwitting and spreading to other cities and suburbs with this unknown man. This man is Karim, where he has been summoned to bury his international sports mogul who visits Addis of Angola, Africa and the rest of the world, in his forties and living with his parents in estranged father. Befriended by an orphan Ababa on a PR campaign promoting football kuduro is simultaneously a dance, a genre of a suburban ghetto in Paris. He is broken by herd-boy and stirred by memories of his youth, as a fountain of hope for the Ethiopian people. music and a whole lifestyle. It is now present life. Benjamin’s sudden arrival will test this he falls in love with his childhood friend, After Admassu’s plot to kidnap Franz goes in every aspect of Angolan popular culture family to its limits as he hurtles down a path Dineo, now a radiant young teacher. Through awry, the two find themselves alone together with lyrics that scores of young Angolans and of self-destruction. her, Atang is drawn to the mystical beauty and trying to navigate the East African wilderness. Africans can relate to. This engaging and fun hardships of his people, and faces his own On their rambling journey, they attempt to documentary follows the most idolised kuduro + THE GREAT SAFAE (see p.22) bittersweet reckoning. out-scheme each other and out-run chance, stars, including appearances from Bruno but also come upon a genuine opportunity to de Castro, Eduardo Paim, Sebém, Nagrelha, Sat 8 Nov | 16:00 | Ciné Lumière + UDUDEAGU (see p.24) redefine themselves. Hochi Fu, Namayer, Tchobari, Titica, Francis Boy and Cabo Snoop. Sat 8 Nov | 18:30 | Ritzy Brixton + THE MARKET KING (see p. 22) Followed by Q&A with director Mário Sun 2 Nov | 15:30 | Hackney Picturehouse Patrocínio + FILM AFRICA 2014 CLOSING PARTY (see p. 27)

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KADJIKE LONDON PREMIERE KEN BUGUL: NOBODY WANTS HER DOC KINYARWANDA N: THE MADNESS OF REASON Dir. Sana Na N’Hada UK PREMIERE Dir. Alrick Brown LONDON PREMIERE Bissagos Islands/Guinea-Bissau. 2013. Dir. Silvia Voser Rwanda/USA/France. 2011. 100min. Colour. Dir. Peter Krüger 115min. Colour. Creole with English Subtitles. Switzerland/France. 2013. 62min. Colour. English. Kinyarwanda with English subtitles. Belgium/Netherlands/Germany. 2014. French with English subtitles. 102min. Colour. French, Bambara, Dioula, Kadjike translates as the sacred place of During the Rwandan genocide, when Sénoufo, Songhoy, Agni with English subtitles. initiation, where knowledge is transmitted Ken Bugul: Nobody Wants Her is a filmic ode neighbours killed neighbours and friends from generation to generation. As if in the to the brilliance of this revered Senegalese betrayed friends, some crossed the lines of Frenchman Raymond Borremans left Europe original paradise, the inhabitants of the writer. Determined to set her own path in hatred. A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu for West Africa in the mid-20th century Bissagos archipelago, located in the west life, Ken Bugul left Senegal and spent 20 man fall in love, a soldier struggles to foster to devote his life to the creation of the coast of Africa, live according to ancient years living in Europe. Encountering crushing a greater good, and a priest grapples with first encyclopedia of this ‘other’ world. An traditions and in absolute respect for nature, rejection upon her return to Senegal, at her his faith in the face of unspeakable horror. ambitious scholar, he yearned for eternal until a gang of drug dealers occupies their most destitute and desperate, Bugul sought Interweaving six different tales, Kinyarwanda recognition, but died having only reached the sacred islands. The medicine man dies refuge in her writing. Her debut novel, The presents a complex and complete depiction of letter N. Written by award-winning Nigerian and everything seems lost, until his young Abandoned Baobab, already captured Bugul’s the human resilience and the struggle brave writer Ben Okri, N: The Madness of Reason is successor decides to fight the invaders to unique idiosyncratic style and cemented her Rwandans fought to keep their humanity the poetically scripted story of how Borremans save his village. position as a novelist. Painting a mosaic during the genocide. The film pays homage to tries to complete his unfinished encyclopedia picture of Bugul’s life and times, this powerful many using the voices of few. from beyond death. + FISH OF THE LAND (see p. 22) documentary leads us into the secret world of a transgressive African woman artist and her + UMUDUGUDU: RWANDA 20 YEARS ON + HOMECOMING (see p.20) Fri 7 Nov | 18:30 | Ritzy Brixton brave fight for freedom and acceptance. (see p.24) DOC Followed by a Q&A with writer Ben Okri. + THE ART OF AMA ATA AIDOO (see p. 10) Followed by a panel discussion on the genocide and the peace and reconciliation Tue 4 Nov | 20:30 | Ritzy Brixton Sat 1 Nov | 12:00 | Rich Mix process in present day Rwanda.

Sun 2 Nov | 20:30 | Ritzy Brixton 13 NATIONAL DIPLOMA DOC NJINGA, QUEEN OF ANGOLA (NJINGA, OCTOBER 1 UK PREMIERE ONYE OZI (THE MESSENGER) (EXAMEN D’ÉTAT) RAINHA DE ANGOLA) UK PREMIERE Dir. Kunle Afolayan Dir. Obi Emelonye Dir. Dieudo Hamadi Dir. Sergio Graciano Nigeria. 2014. 145min. Colour. English, Igbo, UK. 2013. 89min. Colour. Igbo with English France/Congo. 2014. 92min. Colour. French Angola. 2013. 109min. Colour. Portuguese Yoruba, Hausa with English subtitles. subtitles. with English subtitles. with English subtitles. It’s September 1960. Nigeria is on the verge Award-winning director Obi Emelonye breaks This stirring observational documentary In 17th century Angola, a woman leads her of independence from British colonial rule. new ground in Nollywood filmmaking with follows a group of young Congolese high kingdom in a 40-year struggle for freedom Northern Nigerian police detective, Dan Waziri, a first-of-its-kind Nigerian language film school students who are about to sit the exam and independence. Her name is Njinga. She has been urgently dispatched south to solve set in London and performed exclusively in for their National Diploma - the equivalent will be known as Queen Njinga. Born into a the mysterious murder of a woman. With local Igbo (by both Nigerian and British actors). of the French baccalaureate - in Kisangani, patriarchal society, Njinga defied tradition to tensions high on the eve of independence, This psychological comedy thriller stars Okey Democratic Republic of Congo. In a dubious become queen at the age of 50 with the aim Waziri faces a race against time to crack the Bakassi, one of Nigeria’s beloved comedians, fee-collection routine for the featured school, of ensuring her people were kept safe from case before any more women are killed. With as an immigrant fresh to London with high the teachers demand payments directly from the Portuguese slave traders. A true story of pressure mounting, detective Waziri is pulled expectations and a two-year plan to return their students and expel anyone who doesn’t unrivalled determination, Njinga stands today into a game of cat and mouse as he and the to Nigeria a rich man. Wanting to make his comply. Fed up with the system, a group of as a symbol of resistance, fully embodying the killer try to outwit each other, leading to a mother tongue, Igbo, the star attraction and expelled students decide to get together and motto: “those who fight, fight to win”. climactic showdown all before the British flag marking a return to his roots and the origins start their own study centre in a rented house. is lowered and the Nigerian flag raised on of Nollywood, Emelonye has produced an Director Hamadi’s camera follows the young + TWAAGA (see p.24) Independence Day - October 1st. entertaining and accomplished crowd-pleaser students in their exam preparations with in Onye Ozi. remarkable intimacy and the suspense builds Followed by a Q&A with lead actress Followed by a Q&A with director Kunle as exam day draws closer. What lengths will Lesliana Pereira. Afolayan. + THE LINE-UP (see p.20) the students go through to pass this crucial test that holds the key to their future? Thurs 6 Nov | 18:00 | Hackney Picturehouse Mon 3 Nov | 18:30 | Ritzy Brixton Followed by a Q&A with director Obi Emelonye. Sun 2 Nov | 16:00 | Ritzy Brixton Sat 8 Nov | 20:30 | Ritzy Brixton 14 @FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK filmafrica.org.uk

SUNS (SOLEILS) LONDON PREMIERE SUFFERING IS A SCHOOL OF WISDOM THE SUPREME PRICE DOC THEY ARE THE DOGS (C’EST EUX LES Dir. Olivier Delahaye & Dani Kouyaté (LA SOUFFRANCE EST UNE ÉCOLE DE Dir. Joanna Lipper CHIENS) LONDON PREMIERE Burkina Faso/France. 2014. 96min. Colour. SAGESSE) UK PREMIERE DOC Nigeria/USA. 2013. English. 75min. Colour. Dir. Hicham Lasri French with English subtitles. Dir. Astrid Ariane Atodji English. Morocco. 2013. 85min. Colour. Arabic with An allegorical road-movie that transcends Congo-Brazzaville/France. 2014. 72 mins. Tracing the evolution of the pro-democracy English subtitles. both space and time through a whimsical Colour. Fon, French with English subtitles. movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase Set in Morocco in the midst of the Arab tracing of African history. Set against Since his arrival in Cameroon 40 years ago, the presence of women in leadership roles, Spring, They Are The Dogs follows a TV crew the backdrop of Burkina Faso’s stunning Atodji’s father has never set foot in his native The Supreme Price is a riveting action-thriller who discover an old man, Majhoul, secretly landscape, Soleils follows the adventures Benin. What would have pushed him to leave documentary that combines daring reporting, imprisoned during the country’s 1981 riots of Sotigui, a wise griot, who is entrusted without a trace, to abandon his parents, behind the scenes access and heart-stopping and recently released after 30 long years. with curing Dokamisa, a young girl struck siblings, as well as the daughter he had in archive footage of Nigeria in some of her most Wandering the streets in a daze, Majhoul is by amnesia. Together they begin a healing Benin the very same year of his self-imposed unstable and violent periods. The film follows on a relentless quest to resolve his past - a journey that takes them through Africa’s rich exile? No longer able to unable to ignore Hafsat Abiola, whose past is inextricably linked journey the TV crew decides to document. history – from the Mandingo Empire of the these gnawing questions, Atodji embarks to her homeland. Following the annulment of Aptly described as a “tragic, poetic fable 13th century through to the cells of Robben on a journey to Benin hoping to find her her father’s victory in Nigeria’s Presidential in Casablanca past and present”, Hicham Island – meeting along the way the many relatives, as well as answers. In this emotive Election and her mother’s assassination by Lasri’s accomplished feature is characterised ‘suns’ (icons) of African literature, folklore documentary, award-winning Atodji bravely agents of the military dictatorship, Abiola by a profound sense of discontent. Walking and politics. Through their quest, Sotigui and confronts her family’s past and her own continues the fight to transform a corrupt the line between fiction and documentary, the Dokamisa reveal the pride of the continent, vulnerabilities, exploring notions of identity culture of governance into a democracy film highlights the manipulative nature of reminding us of how much Africa has given and belonging that help her understand capable of serving Nigeria’s most marginalized media, whether in the service of news or in the the world. not only her own personal story, but a wider population: women. pursuit of one’s own truth. history. + DIALEMI (see p.21) Followed by a Q&A with Hafsat Abiola and + EL BOSTAN EL SAEED STREET (see p.21) Sat 1 Nov | 15:30 | Ritzy Brixton director Joanna Lipper. Sun 2 Nov | 20:30 | Hackney Picturehouse Wed 5 Nov | 20:30 | Ritzy Brixton Thurs 6 Nov | 18:30 | Hackney Picturehouse 15 UNDER THE STARRY SKY (DES ETOILES) VIRGIN MARGARIDA (VIRGEM WHITE SHADOW WOMEN, ENTIRELY WOMEN (FEMMES, Dir. Dyana GAYE MARGARIDA) Dir. Noaz Deshe ENTIÈREMENT FEMMES) UK PREMIERE France/Senegal. 2013. 88min. Colour. French Dir. Licinio Azevedo Tanzania/Germany/Italy. 2013. 115min. Dir. Dani Kouyaté and Philippe Baqué with English subtitles. Mozambique/France/Portugal. 2012. 90min. Colour. Swahili with English subtitles. Mali/France. 2014. 66min. Colour. French, Dyana Gaye’s debut feature is a textured Colour. French, Portuguese with English Noaz Deshe’s phenomenal debut feature is a Moré with English subtitles. DOC exploration of the African Diaspora and the subtitles. disturbing coming-of-age story following a From now on, mutilated women have hope. fragile hopes of those looking for a new life or Set in Mozambique in 1975 in the young albino boy from Tanzania who is trying Created by a French urologist, surgical revisiting an old one. The three finely crafted immediate aftermath of the country’s war to navigate the world with a price on his restoration of the clitoris has become narrative arcs of Sophie, Abdoulaye and of independence, Virgin Margarida tells the head. After witnessing his father’s murder in possible. Burkina Faso is the first African Thierno become entwined as they make their story of a group of female sex workers who are his home village, Alias gets sent away by his country where this procedure has been made way between Turin, Dakar and New York. From captured by revolutionary soldiers and sent mother to find refuge in the city. Being a fast available. But prevalent societal taboos initial strife and disillusionment to decisive deep into the countryside to be ‘re-educated’. learner, Alias quickly finds his way in the city, still make it difficult for women to benefit decisions and actions, all three struggle Although Maria João, the officer in charge of selling sunglasses, DVDs and mobile phones from it. The individual testimonies in this to take hold of their futures and find their the programme, is driven by idealistic notions, under the care of his uncle Kosmos. Gradually documentary transform into a heart-breaking personal freedom. Under The Starry Sky is a she is perfectly willing to subject her prisoners the city becomes no different than the bush collective cry, begging the question: will the rich emotional tapestry of both joy and heart- to torture. Members of the captured group of and Alias soon realizes that wherever he may restoration of the clitoris one day become a break that draws attention to the hopes and women take it upon themselves to look out be, the same rules of survival apply. Executive recognised human right? dreams of contemporary emigration. for Margarida, a 16 year-old girl who stands Produced by Ryan Gosling, White Shadow falsely accused of prostitution and transpires intersperses handheld realism with moments Followed by an FGM panel in partnership + 100% DAKAR – MORE THAN ART (see to be a virgin. of dream-like escape, presenting a haunting with The Foundation for Women’s Health, p.10) and dramatic picture of a place where Research and Development (FORWARD). Followed by a Q&A with executive producer “albinos don’t die, they just disappear”. Tues 4 Nov | 18:30 | Hackney Picturehouse Pedro Pimenta. + NOLA (see p.23) Thu 6 Nov | 18:30 | Ritzy Brixton Fri 7 Nov | 20:30 | Ritzy Brixton Sat 1 Nov | 13:00 | Ritzy Brixton

16 BAOBAB AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM @FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK filmafrica.org.uk

Established in 2011, the Film Africa Baobab Award for Best Short Film exists to recognise and support new talent from emerging African filmmakers, putting in evidence our commitment to nurture and support new voices in African filmmaking. AFRONAUTS BEHIND THE DOOR (WARA EL-BAB) BOBBY UK PREMIERE The Award consists of a £1,000 cash Dir. Frances Bodomo UK PREMIERE Dir. Mehdi M. Barsaoui prize. Nine shorts directed by up- USA/Ghana. 2014. 14min. B&W. English. Dir. Adham Elsherif Tunisia. 2013. 18min. Colour. Arabic with and-coming directors from across On 16 July 1969, America prepares to Egypt. 2013. 20min. Colour. Arabic with English subtitles. the continent and the diaspora have launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, English subtitles. It’s the new school year and for the first time, been selected to vie for the 2014 the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat A boy is left home alone with strict eight-year old Fares is allowed to walk to Baobab Award. The award will be America to the moon. Inspired by true events, instructions from his severe mother, who school on his own. On his way he encounters this lyrical short is pure hypnotic awe. warns that any transgression will summon a stray dog he names Bobby. A beautiful judged by a three-person jury of the one-legged monster. With stunning friendship develops between the two, but it film professionals including African At the age of 26, Brooklyn-based Ghanaian cinematography and art direction, and a pace becomes threatened when Fares decides to film curatorKeith Shiri, writer and filmmakerFrances Bodomo is rapidly that allows the perception of his environment bring Bobby home… filmmakerRungano Nyoni and writer establishing herself as a definite African by a child to convincingly unfold, Behind the Ade Solanke. cinematic voice to keep an eye on. After her Door is a wonderful coming-of-age tale. Bobby is Mehdi M. Barsaoui’s second work promising debut short film Boneshaker (2013) behind the cameras, after graduating as a starring Oscar-nominated Quvenzhané Wallis, Adham Elsherif was born in Giza in 1988 and film editor from the Institut Supérieur des Arts this ‘moonlike’ retelling of the Zambian space is a graduate of the Higher Cinema Institute Multimédias (Isamm) in Tunisia, and pursuing programme story might well deliver a new in Cairo. His previous short “A Resident of his film studies in Bologna, Italy. His first celestial body. the City” was screened at the Rotterdam Film short film A Ma Place (2010) was presented Festival and was in competition at the Dubai in various international festivals including Sat 1 Nov | 16:00 | Hackney Picturehouse Film Festival. Dubai, Roma and Cartagena.

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17 KANYEKANYE LONDON PREMIERE THE MAN WITH A DOG (MOUL IKELB) REST IN PEACE (ALF RAHMA WE NOUR) THE RICE BOY (LE PETIT BONHOMME DE Dir. Miklas Manneke UK PREMIERE EUROPEAN PREMIERE RIZ) UK PREMIERE South Africa. 2013. 25min. Colour. Zulu with Dir. Kamal Lazraq Dir. Dina Abd Elsalam Dir. Rianando Ludovic Randriamanantsoa English subtitles. France. 2014. 27min. Colour. Arabic with Egypt. 2014. 16min. Colour. Arabic with Madagascar. 2013. 25min. Colour. Malagasy A forbidden romance between two township English subtitles. English subtitles. with English subtitles. teenagers, Kanyekanye (meaning together) Youssef lives as a reclusive outcast. His sole Trying to spend the night together after In the ghetto of Antananarivo, a little boy tells the story of a town long divided by a line friend is his dog, Chagadai. One evening at one of them has just lost her husband, two routinely steals rice from passers-by in order to mark territories belonging to the red and the beach, the dog disappears. In order to find sisters settle in for a night of praying and to feed himself and his family. One day, the green camps. A young man from the green him, Youssef must engage in a dangerous introspection, listening to Qur’anic recitals. boy follows a lone man he has been stealing side falls in love with a girl from the red side quest in Casablanca’s slums. However, far from being a quiet night in, the from, only to discover that he also, has a of town. But can their love survive the colour evening takes a rather unexpected turn. family. divide? Moroccan filmmakerKamal Lazraq was born in 1984 in Casablanca and educated at La Dina Abd Elsalam is an Egyptian filmmaker, Ludovic Rianando Randriamanantsoa Miklas Manneke graduated from the South Fémis in Paris. His previous credits include novelist, and a Professor at Alexandria worked as a writer for the Malagasy National African School of Motion Picture Medium his 2011 graduation short film Drari, which University. Rest in Peace follows her first short Television before being awarded a scholarship and Live Performance (AFDA) in 2013. His was awarded a Student Film recognition by This is Not a Pipe (2010), which received the to study at the Academy of the Visuals Arts graduation film Kanyekanye was a finalist at Cinéfondation in Cannes. Arab Women Filmmakers Award from the of Marrakech, Morocco. With The Rice Boy, the 40th Student Academy Awards, has won Baghdad International Film Festival in 2011. Randriamanantsoa’s presents us with a film The South African Film and Television Award, Sat 8 Nov | 16:00 | Ritzy Brixton Both works address women’s issues which, that is at once raw and deeply moving. as well as the Audience Choice Award at the filmmaker confessed, were topics she was CinéSud Festival in France and the Chicago more sensitive towards. On this subject, she Sat 1 Nov | 16:00 | Hackney Picturehouse International Film Festival. said: ‘To be an artist is to embrace human suffering in its entirety, and to perceive beauty Sat 1 Nov | 16:00 | Hackney Picturehouse wherever you can find it’. Sat 1 Nov | 11:00 | Rich Mix Main Space Tue 4 Nov | 10:00 | Ritzy Brixton Sat 8 Nov | 16:00 | Ritzy Brixton

18 Restless Talent Management in associationin association with the with FILM FILM AFRICA AFRICA LONDON 2014 2014 PRESENTS The STONES’ TRAVELS (FARAW KA TAAMA) THE WINDOW (LE HUBLOT) UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Dir. Anis Djaad Dir. Seydou Cissé Algeria. 2011. 20min. Colour. Arabic with Restless Mali. 2012. 11min. Colour. Bambara with English subtitles. English subtitles. Two unemployed and disaffected youths Miracles are occurring in a village, stones are only have the view of the sea to expand their Pitch whipped about in the wind. Further mysterious otherwise bleak horizon. The construction of events lead us to the view of a magnificent a new building threatens to obstruct their bridge. Based on the animist legend of the vista to life. the opportunity to travels of stones, Cissé’s film exquisitely brings to life Malian cosmology whilst paying Anis Djaad is a former journalist and a writer homage to all the workers sacrificed in born in Algiers in 1974. The Window is his first pitch your best building the Markala Bridge. short. A deceptively tranquil film that sheds creative idea for light on circumstances that cast a blight on Seydou Cissé is a graduate from the Studio the hopes of young men, it is executed with national des arts contemporains – Le Fresnoy, remarkable poise and sensitivity. film or tv in France. Stones’ Travels is an assured student film in which he seeks to probe Sat 8 Nov | 16:00 | Ritzy Brixton in front of a panel of the relationship and similarities between Wed 5 Nov | 18:15 | The Roxy animation film and the world of animism. top industry Sat 8 Nov | 16:00 | Ritzy Brixton professionals SUN WHEN:2 NOV SUNDAY 2nd2014 NOVEMBER 14.30 14h30 to 16hoo- 16.00 PART OF FILMVENUE: AFRICA The Blue 2014 Room, INDUSTRY BFI Southbank FORUM (p.27)

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JOHANNESBURG: BEREA NAIROBI: HOMECOMING LAGOS: THE LINE-UP DAKAR: THE OTHER WOMAN (L’AUTRE Dir. Vincent Moloi Dir. Jim Chuchu Dir. Folasaking Iwajomo FEMME) 2013. 13min. Colour. English. 2013. 11min. Colour. English, Kiswahili with 2013. 13min. Colour. English, Pidgin, Yoruba Dir. Marie KA Long after his friends and family have moved English subtitles. with English subtitles. 2013. 12min. Colour. French with English on, Jewish pensioner Aaron Zukerman remains Fantasy, science fiction and infatuation Ten men in a taxi, strangers to each other, subtitles. in his inner-city apartment, his world receding fuse as an obsessed neighbour invents head to an unusual line-up, where they must A brave film set in the secret world of multiple while the city envelopes his memories and ever stranger scenarios for wooing the girl strip and subject themselves to blindfolds spouse households. Madeleine, a housewife happiness. His only focus is on weekly of his dreams. Nairobi is being threatened and inspection by a mysterious woman and in her fifties, discovers her true self when she meetings with a kindly prostitute. When she is with imminent extinction; this is Max’s last her charge. Only seven can go home with a has to welcome her husband’s young second unexpectedly replaced, a chain of events are chance to save girl next door Alina and win big monetary reward. For those left behind, wife to their home. The relationship between set in motion that inspire Aaron to revaluate her affections. However, a mysterious stranger the attrition continues. But what is the price these two women defies conventional norms. his place in the world. Berea is a gentle, stands in the way of his happiness. A quirky of being chosen? Iwajomo’s spooky, disturbing Their potent intimacy has the potential to elegiac sonnet to the power of reinvention in look at obsession and the desire to be noticed. short confronts the perils of the poverty trap blow apart a stable domestic situation and the face of rapid urbanization. and the abuse of the desperate, in an allegory to rewrite the story of both their lives. A bold, Screening with N: THE MADNESS OF of the exploited. beautifully acted piece, sensitively filmed Screening with SOFT VENGEANCE: REASON (p.13) against the backdrop of a colourful and ALBIE SACHS & THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA Screening with ONYE OZI (THE beguiling Dakar. (see p.5) Tue 4 Nov | 20:30 | Ritzy Brixton MESSENGER) (see p.14) Screening with DAKAN (p.11) Wed 5 Nov | 18:30 | Hackney Picturehouse Sat 8 Nov | 20:30 | Ritzy Brixton Fri 7 Nov | 19:00 | South London Gallery

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THE ANIMAL PARTY (YARAWIT DIGIS) DANCING IN A NIGHTMARE DOC DIALEMI (SHE’S HAVING FUN) EL BOSTAN EL SAEED STREET UK PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE Dir. Nadine Ostsobogo EUROPEAN PREMIERE Dir. Ezra Wube Dir. Selim Rebii Gabon. 2013. 21min. Colour. French with Dir. Maysoon El Massry Ethiopia/USA. 2012. 10min. Colour. Amharic Tunisia. 2014. 20min. Colour. Arabic with English subtitles. Egypt. 2014. 16min. Colour. Arabic with with English subtitles. English subtitles. In a house overlooking the sea, a sculptor lives English subtitles. In this animated film based on an Ethiopian In a post-revolution Tunisia, still under alone surrounded by a universe of melancholy A Seventy year-old man returns to the street folk story, all the animals of the world get terrorist threat, a depressed filmmaker tries to and solitude. He keeps attempting to shape a where he spent his childhood. Rowing a boat together for a party. When the beverages run push a dancer into embracing an old dream human face from stone. He chips away with back home, Saied’s memories float around out, who will be willing to get more? Ezra of dancing freely in the streets. To do this he his chisel seeking his inspiration, his abstract him as he passes many dilapidated buildings, Wube’s wonderfully evocative work is created has to help his friend abandon all restraint love - Dialemi. He is waiting for his muse. looking out for the home of his beloved using the painstaking technique of time- and overcome insurmountable personal fears. One afternoon, she appears. For a fleeting Narges. On encountering a postman dumping based painting which combines traditional Almost unclassifiable, this documentary is moment, life becomes sweeter. But she never letters he’s failed to deliver, Saied walks with painting methods with technology, and a uniquely styled filmic poem of hope and stays long... him, recounting the story of his life on El where the art is drawn on a single canvas, humanity. Bostan El Saeed Street. As he searches for photographed, and erased to start anew. Screening with SUNS (see p.15) fragments of his past, the old man becomes Screening with HEAR ME MOVE (p.6) young once again. Part of our Family Day and our schools Sun 2 Nov | 20:30 | Hackney Picturehouse programme (p.26) Fri 7 Nov | 18:30 | Hackney Picturehouse Screening with THEY ARE THE DOGS (see p.15) Sat 1 Nov | 11:00 | Rich Mix Tue 4 Nov | 10:00 | Ritzy Brixton Wed 5 Nov | 20:30 | Ritzy Brixton

21 FISH OF THE LAND (SAMAKI THE GREAT SAFAE (LA GRANDE SAFAE) THE MARKET KING (SOKO SONKO) NATSANAT DOC MCHANGANI) EUROPEAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE EUROPEAN PREMIERE Dir. Cheryl Halpern & Mitchell Stuart Dir. Amil Shivji Dir. Randa Maroufi Dir. Ekwa Msangi USA/Ethiopia. 2012. 26min. Colour. English. Tanzania. 2014. 30min. Colour. Swahili with Morocco. 2014. 16min. Colour. Arabic with USA/Kenya. 2014. 20min. Colour. Kiswahili, ‘Natsanat’ (meaning freedom) documents English subtitles. English subtitles. Sheng, English with English subtitles. the heroic stories of young female freedom On the auspicious day when Godfrey is This experimental piece is inspired by a real- When her mother falls sick, Kibibi’s father, fighters in Ethiopia during the 20th century. launching his Tanzanian cellular company, life character known as The Great Safae. A Ed, is tasked with taking her to the market These women have left their families and he is involved in a car accident resulting in transvestite, he spent part of his life working to get her hair braided before school begins. homes to join the struggle to bring freedom, the death of a local fish seller. Haunted by his as a domestic for Maroufi’s family in Morocco, Well-meaning Ed finds himself thrown head peace and democracy to their country. They series of choices, our young and ambitious who were quite unaware of his “true” sexual first into an unknown world where no man has serve as role models for leadership and entrepreneur reveals more than one face of identity. gone before, with hilarious consequences. A courage for women. ‘Africa rising’. As land is snatched up by new fun yet affecting film with a light touch, The companies and local people are left destitute, Screening with FEVERS (see p.12) Market King explores the bond between father Screening with ASNI: COURAGE & this short addresses the human cost of and daughter. GLAMOUR IN ETHIOPIA (see p.11) Africa’s burgeoning economic development. Sat 8 Nov | 16:00 | Ciné Lumière Screening with HORIZON BEAUTIFUL Sat 8 Nov | 16:30 | Hackney Picturehouse Screening with KADJIKE (see p.13) (see p.12)

Fri 7 Nov | 18:30 | Ritzy Brixton Sun 2 Nov | 15:30 | Hackney Picturehouse

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NOLA LONDON PREMIERE SIX SPRING SHOOTS (POUSSES DE THE THIRD HAND (LA TROISIEME MAIN) Dir. Askia Traoré Dir. Bahaa Elgamal PRINTEMPS) UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE France. 2010. 25min. Colour. French with Egypt. 2013. 18min. Colour. Arabic with Dir. Intissar Belaid Dir. Hicham Elladdaqi English subtitles. English subtitles. Tunisia. 2014. 23min. Colour. Arabic with Morocco/Qatar. 2014. 16min. Colour. Arabic It is a special day for Nola. It’s her first day of Visitors are due to arrive. With only the English subtitles. with English subtitles. freedom after years in detention. A portrait of gramophone to break their stony silence, a In the outskirts of the city of El Kef, children Zineb has just passed her baccalaureate. a woman whose world is falling apart. couple get ready for their guests. While looking talk about their experiences of revolution. Like all her fellow peers, she wants to study in for her butterfly necklace, she instead finds a From their stories and imaginations, beautiful the city. However her parents don’t even have Screening with WOMEN, ENTIRELY gun. This is where it all begins… animated images are born. enough to pay the electricity bill. WOMEN (see p.16) Screening with FOUR CORNERS (see p.6) Screening with A DOOMED GENERATION Screening with ADY GASY: THE Sat 1 Nov | 13:00 | Ritzy Brixton (see p.11) and VIRTUAL (see p.25) MALAGASY WAY (see p.10) Fri 7 Nov | 20:30 | Hackney Picturehouse Wed 5 Nov | 18:30 | Ritzy Brixton Sun 2 Nov | 18:30 | Hackney Picturehouse

23 TO THE ONE I LOVE UK PREMIERE DOC TWAAGA UDUDEAGU UMUDUGUDU: RWANDA 20 YEARS ON Dir. Zolani Ndevu Dir. Cédric Ido Dir. Akwaeke Emezi UK PREMIERE South Africa. 2012. 23min. Colour. Zulu with France. 2013. 30min. Colour. French with Nigeria. 2014. 2min. B&W. Igbo with English Dir. Giordano Cossu English subtitles. English subtitles. subtitles. France. 2014. 36min. Colour. Kinyarwanda, DOC Filmmaker Zolani Ndevu is on a search for his Burkina Faso in 1985 is a country in the throes An experimental Igbo short shot in Lagos, English with English subtitles. absent father, who left their family home when of revolution. Manu, a young boy who loves Nigeria, UDUDEAGU is a story about Former genocide killers and survivors he was but one month old. Tracing his roots comics, tags along with his big brother Albert. impermanence and a spider. It is a piece live together once again in umudugudus to the Eastern Cape, the ethical lines between When Albert decides to undergo a magic of visual mythology that explores intimate (villages). How is life together, when son and filmmaker begin to blur, with Nedvu ritual, Manu realises there are real powers to spaces as sites of loss and leaving. your neighbour is the one who killed your pulling no punches in this unorthodox and rival even those of superheroes. family? Released from prison in 2012, Osée powerful tragedy. Screening with THE FORGOTTEN massacred over 100 people in 1994 and has Screening with NJINGA, QUEEN OF KINGDOM (see p.12) now returned to his home village. He lives Screening with MINERS SHOT DOWN ANGOLA (see p.14) next to Esperance, who miraculously survived (see p.6) Sat 8 Nov | 18:30 | Ritzy Brixton Osée’s machete and still bares its scars on Thurs 6 Nov | 18:00 | Hackney Picturehouse her head and back. A series of stories like this Wed 5 Nov | 20:30 | Hackney Picturehouse one provide a thought-provoking reflection on rebuilding life and society in the hills of Rwanda.

Screening with KINYARWANDA (see p.13)

Sun 2 Nov | 20:30 | Ritzy Brixton

24 CHOCOLATECHOCOLATE VIRTUAL (IFTIRADY) UK PREMIERE WOODEN HAND (PEAU DE COLLE) Dir. Nada Riyadh UK PREMIERE Egypt. 2014. 11min. Colour. Arabic with Dir. Kaouther Ben Hania English subtitles. France/Tunisia. 2013. 23min. Colour. Arabic with English subtitles. Through a series of Facebook updates, we Five-year-old Amira doesn’t understand the witness a day in the life of a law student verses the Koranic School teacher is expecting and activist, who sacrifices time with her her to learn by heart. As her mind wanders family in order to spend her days involved in one day, Amira is asked to recite what has just a workers’ strike. Based on multiple accounts been taught: caught out, she wets herself. of female activists, Virtual explores Egypt’s When her fellow pupils promptly accuse her gender dynamics, focusing on the active role of being a “pisshead”, her humiliation is of women post-Revolution. complete. From then on, she will do everything she can to avoid returning to school to face Screening with A DOOMED GENERATION her teacher and peers, starting with gluing (see p.11) and SPRING SHOOTS (see p.23) her hand to the living-room armchair.

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25 FILM AFRICA 2014 EVENTS

FAMILY DAY Film Africa once again presents an educational programme with primary and secondary school DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING UNVEILED FREE – NO BOOKING REQUIRED screenings in partnership with Picturehouse Education and The Phoenix Cinema. All screenings Workshop with Adeyemi Michael will be followed by an interactive discussion around the topics arising from the films. Aimed at 13-19 year olds Join us for a fun day for the whole family FREE – no booking required featuring FREE screenings, workshops and PRIMARY SCHOOLS PROGRAMME SECONDARY SCHOOLS PROGRAMME the “African Market Corner”, brought to you Award-winning director Adeyemi Michael by Open The Gate. Workshops will include THE ANIMAL PARTY (see p.21) FELIX (see p.5) unveils the art of documentary filmmaking an introduction to djembe drumming by WOODEN HAND (see p.25) in this practical workshop aimed at young NUMBI Arts and interactive story-telling by KANYEKANYE (see p.18) Event length: Approx 120 min | Key stage people. Sharing his own experience and path The Pelican Post. Shorts screening include: 3 & 4 into filmmaking, Adeyemi will let us into The Animal Party by Ezra Wube (see p.21), Event Length: Approx 90 min | Key stage 2 | some of the hidden ‘tricks of the trade’. As Behind the Door by Adham Elsherif (see p.17), Suitable for: Y5&Y6 Subjects: Citizenship, PSHEE, Film Studies, part of the workshop, participants will be Wooden Hand by Kaouther Ben Hania (see Media Studies encouraged to go around the BFI premises p.25) and Kanyekanye by Miklas Manneke (see Subjects and themes: Citizenship, Religious filming and taking notes of things they p.18). We look forward to welcoming you for a Studies, Literacy, Education, Gender, Tradition Themes: Family, Grief, Bullying, Education, observe, exploring how to find a story in their fun-filled day! and Religion, Storytelling. Relationships immediate surroundings. Gathered back in the Blue Room, everyone will have a chance to In partnership with Open The Gate, NUMBI Mon 3 Nov l 10:00 l Phoenix l £2.50 Wed 5 Nov | 10:00 | Hackney Picturehouse present their work and discuss it with the rest Arts and The Pelican Post. Tue 4 Nov l 10:00 l Ritzy Brixton l £2.50 | £2.50 of the group.

Sat 1 Nov l 11:00 l Rich Mix BOOKING DEADLINE: Friday 17 October, 4pm BOOKING DEADLINE: Friday 17 October, 4pm In partnership with We The Peoples Film To book at the Ritzy, contact Elinor Walpole To book, please contact Lucy Orr at Festival. at [email protected] | 07967 047 [email protected] | 07961 295 846 401. To book at the Phoenix, contact Jelena Sat 8 Nov l 13:00-15:00 l BFI Blue Room Milosavjlevic at [email protected] | 020 3074 1967

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MASTERCLASS WITH TALA HADID THE INDUSTRY FORUM FILM AFRICA LIVE! DOCUMENTING AFRICA: CREATING FACT FREE – spaces limited. Booking essential: Live set by El Andaluz Quartet OR FICTION THROUGH THE LENS “I always wanted to film reality, people, [email protected] Registration: £150 / £95 students things, places, landscapes - everything that is Led by Algerian oud virtuoso Yazid Fentazi, Life.” Illustrated with excerpts from her work, Following the success of last year’s Industry El Andaluz are the foremost exponents of Film Africa once again partners with the Tala Hadid will define what has informed and Forum at the BFI, Film Africa 2014 presents classical Arabic and Andalusian music in University of Westminster’s Africa Media nourished the development of her aesthetics. its second industry day with three panels London, never failing to end their sets by Centre to support their 6th annual African Exploring her attempts to transcend the and a networking lunch. This FREE event getting audiences on their feet! Film Conference. This year’s conference will artifice that is filmmaking, she will unpack will bring together key industry experts from bring together world-renowned academics the creative processes that facilitate the Africa and the UK to discuss co-production In partnership with The Maghreb Cinema and practitioners to discuss contemporary capture of fleeting moments of reality. markets and opportunities and explore Series and Culturama. issues around how Africans portray commercial prospects for independent themselves and how they are portrayed by Tala Hadid is a writer, photographer and filmmakers, including an opportunity for Wed 5 Nov | 21:30 | The Roxy l £7.50 others through the medium of film. The two- director. Her latest film, The Narrow Frame of attendees to pitch their creative ideas to a day conference, including film screenings, Midnight, will open Film Africa 2014. panel of experts in The Restless Pitch, our FILM AFRICA 2014 CLOSING PARTY will feature Mozambican producer Pedro closing session. Pimenta and South African filmmaker Khalo Sat 1 Nov | 12:00 | South London Gallery l £5 Join us to celebrate the last Saturday of our Matabane as key-note speakers. Sun 2 Nov l 10:00-16:00 l BFI Blue Room ten-day festival with an explosive set of the latest electronic tunes to coming from Angola To book tickets and for more information, and South Africa. Featuring London-based please visit: www.westminster.ac.uk/africa- South African DJ, producer and creative media/events/documenting-africa-creating- director Remi Kabaka and DJ Ketchup, fact-or-fiction-through-the-lens straight from Angola. Sat 8 Nov l 09:00-19:00 l Sun 9 Nov l 09:00- Sat 8 Nov l 21:00 l Hackney Attic, Hackney 17:00 l University of Westminster Picturehouse | £5 FA tkt holders l £6 adv l £7 door 27 DATE TIME SCREENING /EVENT VENUE PAGE Fri 31 Oct 18:30 Opening Film: The Narrow Frame of Midnight + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 4 Sat 1 Nov 11:00 Family Day featuring short screenings & workshops (FREE) Rich Mix 26 12:00 DOUBLE BILL: Ken Bugul - Nobody Wants Her [DOC] + The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo [DOC] + Q&A Rich Mix 13, 10 12:00 Masterclass with Tala Hadid South London Gallery 27 13:00 Women, Entirely Women [DOC] + Nola [SHORT] + Panel Ritzy Brixton 16, 23 15:30 Suffering Is a School of Wisdom [DOC] Ritzy Brixton 15 16:00 BAOBAB SHORTS: Bobby + Kanyekanye + The Rice Boy + Afronauts Hackney Picturehouse 17-19 18:00 Fadhma n'Soumer + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 7 18:30 Come Back, Africa Ritzy Brixton 5 20:30 1994: The Bloody Miracle [DOC] + Q&A Ritzy Brixton 5 21:00 The Battle Of Algiers Hackney Picturehouse 7 Sun 2 Nov 10:00 The Industry Forum (FREE) Blue Room, BFI Southbank 27 12:00 Tarzan, Don Quichotte & Us [DOC] + In the Silence, I Feel the Earth Roll [DOC] + Frantz Fanon: Memories from the Asylum [DOC] Rich Mix 7 15:30 Family Screening: Horizon Beautiful + The Market King [SHORT] Hackney Picturehouse 12, 22 16:00 National Diploma [DOC] Ritzy Brixton 14 18:00 Difret Ritzy Brixton 11 18:30 Ady Gasy: The Malagasy Way [DOC] + The Third Hand [SHORT] + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 10, 23 20:30 Suns + Dialemi [SHORT] Hackney Picturehouse 15, 21 20:30 DOUBLE BILL: Kinyarwanda + Umudugudu: Rwanda 20 Years On [DOC] + Panel Ritzy Brixton 13, 24 Mon 3 Nov 10:00 Primary School Shorts: The Animal Party + Wooden Hand + Kanyekanye The Phoenix Cinema 26 18:30 October 1 + Q&A Ritzy Brixton 14 18:30 Algerian Shorts: Tomorrow, Algiers? + We Will Not Die + The Days Before + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 8 20:30 Before Crossing the Horizon [DOC] + Equivocal Chronicles [DOC] + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 8 Tue 4 Nov 10:00 Primary School Shorts: The Animal Party + Wooden Hand + Kanyekanye Ritzy Brixton 26 18:30 DOUBLE BILL: Under the Starry Sky + 100% Dakar - More Than Art [DOC] + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 16, 10 20:30 N: The Madness of Reason + Homecoming [SHORT] + Q&A Ritzy Brixton 13, 20 Wed 5 Nov 10:00 Secondary School screening: Felix Hackney Picturehouse 5 18:15 Algerian Shorts: Uzzu [DOC] + Tell Me + Square Port Said + Another Ordinary Day + The Window Roxy Cinema 9 28 DATE TIME SCREENING /EVENT VENUE PAGE Wed 5 Nov 18:30 Soft Vengence: Albie Sachs & The New South Africa [DOC] + Berea [SHORT] Hackney Picturehouse 5, 20 18:30 A Doomed Generation [DOC] + Spring Shoots [SHORT] + Virtual [SHORT] Ritzy Brixton 11, 23, 25 19:00 AFRICA: A Voyage of Discovery - Episode 8: The Legacy [DOC] + Panel SOAS 10 20:00 The Desert Foxes [DOC] + Q&A + Film Africa LIVE! with El Andaluz Quartet Roxy Cinema 9, 27 20:30 Miners Shot Down [DOC] + To The One I Love [SHORT] Hackney Picturehouse 6, 24 20:30 They Are The Dogs + El Bostan El Saeed Street [SHORT] Ritzy Brixton 15, 21 Thu 6 Nov 18:00 Njinga, Queen of Angola + Twaaga [SHORT] + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 14, 24 18:30 The Supreme Price [DOC] + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 15 18:30 White Shadow Ritzy Brixton 16 18:45 The Panafrican Festival of Algiers 1969 [DOC] + Panel Genesis Cinema 9 Fri 7 Nov 18:30 Hear Me Move + Dancing In A Nightmare [SHORT] + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 6, 21 18:30 Kadjike + Fish of the Land [SHORT] Ritzy Brixton 13, 22 19:00 Dakan + The Other Woman [SHORT] + Panel South London Gallery 11, 20 20:30 Virgin Margarida + Q&A Ritzy Brixton 16 20:30 Four Corners + Six [SHORT] + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 6, 23 Sat 8 Nov 09:00 CONFERENCE: Documenting Africa: Creating Fact or Fiction through the Lens University of Westminster 27 13:00 WORKSHOP: Documentary Filmmaking Unveiled Blue Room, BFI Southbank 26 16:00 BAOBAB SHORTS: Stones' Travels + Rest In Peace + The Window + The Man with a Dog + Behind the Door Ritzy Brixton 17-19 16:00 Fevers + The Great Safae [SHORT] Ciné Lumière 12, 22 16:30 Asni: Courage, Passion & Glamour in Ethiopia [DOC] + Natsanat [SHORT] Hackney Picturehouse 11, 22 18:30 The Forgotten Kingdom + Ududeagu [SHORT] Ritzy Brixton 12, 24 18:30 Future Sound of Mzansi [DOC] Hackney Picturehouse 6 20:30 Onye Ozi + The Line Up [SHORT] + Q&A Ritzy Brixton 14, 20 20:30 I Love Kuduro [DOC] + Q&A Hackney Picturehouse 12 21:00 Film Africa LIVE! CLOSING PARTY Hackney Picturehouse 27 Sun 9 Nov 09:00 CONFERENCE: Documenting Africa: Creating Fact or Fiction through the Lens University of Westminster 27 18:15 Closing Film: Timbuktu Ciné Lumière 4

29 THE 2014 FESTIVAL TEAM

SHEILA RUIZ RACHAEL LOUGHLAN ROSA ABIDI ISABEL MOURA DELE MEIJI FATUNLA NADIA DENTON LYNN NWOKORIE FESTIVAL MANAGER FESTIVAL PRODUCER PROGRAMMER MENDES COMMUNICATIONS PR & MARKETING COPY EDITOR PROGRAMMER Sheila Ruiz is Rachael Loughlan Rosa Abidi is an Dele Meiji Fatunla Nadia Denton has Lynn Nwokorie currently Programme Manager is a freelance film Algerian-born freelance Isabel Moura Mendes is Communications been working in film works for the BFI. In for the Royal African festival consultant film curator and is a Portuguese-Cape Manager for the for over 10 years previous years she Society (RAS), where and project manager. critic specialising Verdean freelance Royal African Society curating programmes has fundraised, event she is in charge She has worked in in African and Arab arts and cultural where he leads on the at the BFI and ICA; and produced for the of organising the the film industry for cinemas. She has manager, with a focus co-ordination of the acted as a consultant institute’s festivals extensive programme 8 years, providing advised for the British on African & lusophone RAS’s communications for film festivals, and is also part of of events, which strategic support, Museum and Festival film curation. She and digital transition. funding bodies and the African Odysseys includes the annual event production, CinéSud in France, holds an MA in Arts & He is also a writer film schools. Nadia steering committee. As Africa Writes and Film programming and and has curated for Cultural Management and researcher whose has a BA in Modern well as being a trained Africa festivals. Sheila venue management the BFI Southbank, from Queen Margaret work has appeared in History from St. Hilda’s Script Supervisor with holds an MA in African to a range of venues Ciné Lumiere and the University in various publications College, Oxford and is production credits in Studies from SOAS and film festivals, London African Film Edinburgh, where she including The a member of BAFTA. New York and London, and a BA in History including Glasgow Film Festival. Rosa runs is based. Alongside Guardian, Vox Africa Lynn also curates for from UCL. She is of Festival, TIFF and EIFF. regular film screenings her arts management and the Huffington independent cinema – mixed Spanish/Equato- Rachael has an MLitt and cultural events, practice, Isabel is Post. He tweets The Phoenix. Guinean heritage. She in Film Journalism from including The Maghreb currently programming @delemeiji tweets at @SheilaRuiz University of Glasgow. Cinema Series and for film festivals in The Maghreb Culture Edinburgh, London and Meetup. Lisbon.

30 THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

31 VENUES AND CONTACT

HACKNEY PICTUREHOUSE ROXY BAR & SCREEN 270 Mare Street 128-132 Borough High St FILM AFRICA London E8 1HE London SE1 1LB Royal African Society Box Office: 0871 902 5734 Book online: www.roxybarandscreen.co.uk 36 Gordon Square Book online: London WC1H 0PD www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square FILM AFRICA RITZY BRIXTON London WC1H 0XG W: www.filmafrica.org.uk Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane Contact number: 020 7898 4370 E: [email protected] London SW2 1JG T: 020 3073 8335 Box Office: 0781 902 5739 SOUTH LONDON GALLERY Twitter: @FilmAfrica [#FilmAfrica] Book online: 67 Peckham Road Facebook: facebook/FilmAfricaUK www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Ritzy_Picturehouse London SE5 8UH Box office: 020 7703 6120 ROYAL AFRICAN SOCIETY CINÉ LUMIÈRE Book Online: www.southlondongallery.org W: www.royalafricansociey.org 17 Queensberry Place E: [email protected] London SW7 2DT UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER T: 020 3073 8335 Box Office: 020 7871 3515 35 Marylebone Road Twitter: @RoyAfriSoc Book online: London NW1 5LS Facebook: facebook/RoyAfriSoc www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on Book online: www.westminster.ac.uk/africa-media/events/ documentinfact-or-fiction-through-the-lens BFI SOUTHBANK Belvedere Road PHOENIX CINEMA London SE1 8XT 52 High Rd London N2 9PJ RICH MIX Box office: 020 8444 6789 35-47 Bethnal Green Road Book online: www.phoenixcinema.co.uk London E1 6LA Box Office: 020 7613 7498 GENESIS CINEMA Book online: www.richmix.org.uk 93-95 Mile End Rd, London E1 4UJ Box Office: 020 7780 2000 Book online: www.genesis-cinema.co.uk

32 FILM AFRICA VENUE MAP, LONDON 31 – 9 NOVEMBER 2014 @FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK filmafrica.org.uk

BFI SOUTHBANK Station: Waterloo Buses: 1, 4, 26, 68, 76, 77, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 211, 243, 341, 381, 507, 521, RV1

Hackney Picturehouse CINÉ LUMIÈRE Station: South Kensington Buses: 14, 414, 49, 70, 74, 345, 360, C1

University of Westminster HACKNEY PICTUREHOUSE Station: Hackney Central Buses: 30, 38, 48, 55, 106, 236, 242, 253, 254, 276, 277, 394, D6, W15 SOAS -University Rich Mix of London RICH MIX Station: Shoreditch High Street & Liverpool Street Buses: 26, 35, 47, 48, 67, 78, 135, 149, 242, 243 RITZY CINEMA Station: Brixton Buses: 2, 3, 35, 45, 109, 118, 133, 159, 196, 250, 322, 345, 355, P4, P5

Ciné Lumière ROXY BAR & SCREEN Station: Borough BFI Southbank Buses: 21, 35, 40, 133, 343 Roxy Bar & Screen SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Station: Russell Square Buses: 7, 68, 91, 168, 188 SOUTH LONDON GALLERY Station: Peckham Rye Buses: 12, 36, 171, 343, 436 South London Gallery UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER Ritzy Cinema Station: Baker Street & Marylebone Buses: 18, 27, 30, 74, 205, 453

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100% Dakar [DOC] 10 F Miners Shot Down [DOC] 06 T 1994: the Bloody Miracle [DOC] 05 Fadhma n’Soumer 07 Tarzan, Don Quichotte Felix 05 N and Us [DOC/SHORT] 07 A Fevers 12 N: The Madness of Reason 13 Tell Me [SHORT] 09 Ady Gasy: The Malagasy Way [DOC] 10 Fish of the Land [SHORT] 22 The Narrow Frame of Midnight 04 The Third Hand [SHORT] 23 Afronauts [SHORT] 17 The Forgotten Kingdom 12 National Diploma [DOC] 14 Tomorrow, Algiers? [SHORT] 08 AFRICA: A Voyage of Discovery - Four Corners 06 Natsanat [DOC/SHORT] 22 They Are The Dogs 15 Episode 8: The Legacy [DOC] 10 Frantz Fanon: Memories from Njinga, Queen of Angola 14 Timbuktu 04 The Animal Party [SHORT] 21 the Asylum [DOC] 07 Nola [SHORT] 23 To the One I Love [SHORT] 24 Another Ordinary Day [SHORT] 09 Future Sound of Mzansi [DOC] 06 Twaaga [SHORT] 24 The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo [DOC] 10 O Asni: Courage, Passion & G October 1ST 14 U Glamour in Ethiopia [DOC] 11 The Great Safae [SHORT] 22 Onye Ozi 14 Ududeagu [SHORT] 24 The Other Woman: Dakar [SHORT] 20 Umudugudu: Rwanda B H 20 years on [DOC/SHORT] 24 The Battle of Algiers 07 Hear Me Move 06 P Under the Starry Sky 16 Before Crossing the Horizon [DOC] 08 Homecoming: Nairobi [SHORT] 20 The Panafrican Festival of Uzzu [DOC/SHORT] 09 Behind The Door [SHORT] 17 Horizon Beautiful 12 Algiers [DOC] 09 Berea: Johanessburg [SHORT] 20 V Bobby [SHORT] 17 I R Virgin Margarida 16 I Love Kuduro [DOC] 12 Rest In Peace [SHORT] 18 Virtual [SHORT] 25 C In the Silence, I Hear the Earth The Rice Boy [SHORT] 18 Come Back, Africa 05 Roll [DOC/SHORT] 07 W S We Will Not Die [SHORT] 08 D K Six [SHORT] 23 White Shadow 16 Dakan 11 Kadjike 13 Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs & The Window [SHORT] 19 Dancing In A Nightmare [SHORT] 21 Kanyekanye [SHORT] 18 South Africa [DOC] 05 Women, Entirely Women [DOC] 16 The Days Before [SHORT] 08 Ken Bugul - Nobody Wants Her [DOC] 13 Spring Shoots [SHORT] 23 Wooden Hand [SHORT] 25 The Desert Foxes [DOC] 09 Kinyarwanda 13 Square Port Said [SHORT] 09 Dialemi [SHORT] 21 Stones’ Travels [SHORT] 19 Difret 11 L Suffering is a School of A Doomed Generation [DOC] 11 The Line-Up: Lagos [SHORT] 20 Wisdom [DOC] 15 Suns 15 E M The Supreme Price [DOC] 15 El Bostan El Saeed Street [SHORT] 21 The Man with a Dog [SHORT] 18 Equivocal Chronicles [DOC] 08 The Market King 22

34 @FilmAfrica /FilmAfricaUK filmafrica.org.uk THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Film Africa 2014 has been made possible through the financial support and partnership of a host of institutions and organisations.

We take this opportunity to thank all our host venues, funders, supporters, sponsors and cultural and media partners, as well as the many visiting directors, festival guests and other individuals who have contributed to making the festival happen.

“South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour” is supported by the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery, and the South African Season in the UK 2014 & 2015. The SA-UK Seasons is a partnership between the South African Department of Arts and Culture and the British Council.

In addition to the above, The Royal African Society would like to thank and acknowledge the following individuals for their generous support and commitment to Film Africa 2014:

Kinsi Abdulleh Sibi Cole Rungano Nyoni Ahmed Akasha Emma D’Costa Lucy Orr Justine Atkinson Lindiwe Dovey Caitlin Pearson Joseph a. Adesunloye Silja Frey Funmi Pearce Zeinab Badawi Phoenix Fry Marina Pérez Angelica Baschiera Noel Goodwin Namvula Rennie John Battersby Anna Gritz Maggie Reddy Omar Ben Yedder Lucy Hannah Paul Ridd Louisa Bello Clare Harwood Rachel Robey Clare Binns Sandrine Herbert-Razafinjato Estrella Sendra Lizelle Bisschoff Priscilla Igwe Keith Shiri Lord Paul Boateng Nick Johnson Ingrid Sinclair Charlotte Borger Sindiso Khumalo Ade Solanke Paul Bowman Fadhili Maghiya David Somerset Richard Briggs Sarah Mann Christine Thompson Simon Bright Tendeka Matatu Jane Thornburn Leah Byrne Sarah-Jane Meredith Micallar Walker Oliver Carruthers Laura Mills Elinor Walpoe

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