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AFI PREVIEW Is Published by the Ed for International Critics Week at the Congo CONTENTS 2 New African Films Festival 4 Ousmane Sembène Retrospective 5 16th Annual Environmental Film Festival—SPECIAL GUEST! Director Godfrey Reggio with the Quatsi trilogy 6 Ingmar Bergman Remembered, part II 8 Robert Mitchum Retosective— the essence of cool 10 Bette Davis Centennial— a Hollywood original 12 Korean Film Festival DC— SPECIAL GUEST! Director Lee Chang-dong with OASIS and NEW AFRICAN FILMS FESTIVAL SECRET SUNSHINE 13 The Films of Hiroshi Teshigahara March 7 through March 17 AFI Silver is proud to host the fourth annual New African Films Festival, copresented by AFI, 14 WHAT IS AFI – HOW DO I JOIN? TransAfrica Forum, and afrikafe. The vibrancy of African filmmaking from all corners of the continent 15 Repertory Calendar – Full will be on display, including 2007 Fespaco winner EZRA, 2007 Zanzibar Film Festival winner JUJU Schedule at www.AFI.com/Silver FACTORY, and the US premiere of TARTINA CITY. This year includes a special sidebar retrospective of the films of Senegal’s Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007), the “Godfather of African Cinema.” 16 EXCLUSIVE ENGAGMENT the ALL FILMS NOT RATED world-wide sensation: LAST YEAR AFI member passes will be accepted at all screenings in the New African Films Festival. AT MARIENBAD EZRA populated by African immigrants. His editor Friday, March 7, 7:00 wants him to deliver a traveler’s handbook LOOK FOR THE This moving film was awarded the Grand targeting Europeans looking for accessible AFI member passes accepted for designated Prize at the 2007 Festival Panafricain du exoticism, but Kongo wants to investigate screenings. To find out how to become a the lives of the people around him and the member of AFI, see page 14. Cinema á Ouagadougou (Africa’s largest and most prestigious film event) and select- complicated history between Belgium and AFI PREVIEW is published by the ed for International Critics Week at the Congo. DIR/SCR Balufu Bakupa- American Film Institute. Cannes. One morning on the way to Kanyinda. Democratic Republic of Congo, 2006, color, 97 min. In French with Editorial Offices school, seven-year-old Ezra is kidnapped by American Film Institute rebels—and for the next 10 years remains English subtitles. Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in the jungle as a child soldier. Now a dis- 8633 Colesville Road turbed young man, Ezra finds himself in FARO, GODDESS OF THE WATERS Silver Spring, MD 20910 front of a Truth and Reconciliation [Faro, la reine des eaux] For address changes and subscription Saturday, March 8, 3:00 services, contact: Commission in Sierra Leone where he is American Film Institute asked to speak of his brutal attack on a vil- In this assured debut from Salif Traoré, a 2021 N. Western Ave. lage. As his mute sister listens in horror, former assistant to filmmakers Souleymane Los Angeles, CA 90027 she finally reveals a secret she has kept hid- Cissé and Abderrahmane Sissako, Engineer Attn: Membership den from him. DIR/SCR Newton I. Aduaka; Fili Traoré returns to his rural village in On the cover: JEZEBEL SCR Alain-Michel Blanc; PROD Gorune Mali —many years after having been cast photo courtesy of Photofest Aprikian and Michel Loro. France/Nigeria, out as the child of an unwed mother—to Editor: Caroline Small 2007, color, 103 min. find his father and initiate a waterworks Production Manager: Marie Figueredo project. But his arrival coincides with the Design: Anna Joyce, Post-Newsweek Media, Inc. Best Film, Zanzibar International Film Festival drowning of a young villager. The elders Information is correct at press time. Films and JUJU FACTORY determine that Faro, the water spirit, has schedule subject to change. been angered by Traoré’s return—and the Saturday, March 8, 1:00 Check www.AFI.com/Silver for updates. only way to appease her is with sacrifice. You can also view a copy of this publication Kongo is a struggling author living in the DIR/SCR/PROD Salif Traoré; SCR Olivier online at Gazette.Net. EZRA Matonge district of Brussels, an area mainly Lorelle; PROD Bärbel Mauch, Daniel 2 n TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER NEW AFRICAN FILMS FESTIVAL Morin, Ismaël Ouédraogo and Philippe while, Colonel Koulbou has a new wife, Quinsac. Mali/France/Canada/Burkina and she is already fed up with her treat- Faso/Germany, 2007, color, 96 min. In ment at his hands....(Note courtesy of the Bambara with English subtitles. World Film Festival of Montreal) DIR/SCR/ PROD Issa Serge Coelo. Chad, 2006, CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY [Il va color, 88 min. pleuvoir sur Conakry] Saturday, March 8, 7:30 ITVS Presents: FREE SCREENING This impressive film finds a new approach Back By Popular Demand from to capturing the tradition-versus-modernity SILVERDOCS 2007 theme so frequently seen in African cinema. IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA Twenty-five-year-old BB, son of the inflexi- ble Imam Karamo—the guardian of his vil- Monday, March 10, 7:00 FREE! lage's ancestral traditions—is chosen to be See page 14 for details. his father's worthy successor, but he refus- es to accept his destiny. BB prefers to work independently as an artist and live with his love, the beautiful young computer scientist Kesso. (Note courtesy of the Film CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY Society of Lincoln Center) DIR/SCR Cheick the spirit and sacrifices of the struggle that opening drama is set in Luanda, the capital, Fantamady Camara. Guinea/France, 2007, culminated in independence in 1990. in the war’s aftermath. N’dala is a war color, 97 min. In French with English DIR/SCR Charles Burnett; PROD Abius orphan who escapes his caretakers, hoping subtitles. Akwaake and Steve Gukas. Namibia, to find his way back to his home village. 2007, color, 161 min. Wandering Luanda’s streets, he meets an Special Price: $5 array of characters and is lured into a rob- Back by Popular Demand from “Making her feature debut with bery, while pursued by a missionary nun SILVERDOCS 2007 the clear-eyed, powerful HOL- across the bewildering and dangerous city. DIR/SCR Maria João Ganga; PROD HIP HOP REVOLUTION LOW CITY, Maria João Ganga François Gonot. Angola/Portugal, 2004, Saturday, March 8, 9:45 establishes herself as a talent to color, 90 min. In Portuguese with This visually stimulating film, pumping with be watched. First rate!” English subtitles. the sound of underground classic songs, DREAMS OF DUST —VARIETY explores the 25-year evolution of hip hop in US Premiere! “Hypnotic widescreen photogra- South Africa, from its birth on the Cape HOLLOW CITY [Na Cidade Vazia] TARTINA CITY phy…well written and direct- Flats through the insurgence of black con- Sunday, March 9, 6:45 ed…Salgues' screenplay is per- sciousness and the political uprising in the Sunday, March 9, 8:45 One of the few films made in Angola since Adoum, a young reporter, fights to get a fectly crafted.” 1980s. Interviews with first-generation pio- it was torn apart by civil war, this eye- neers of South African hip hop explain passport to leave Chad. Once abroad, he —DEBORAH YOUNG, VARIETY how the African-American art form mir- hopes to do an extensive report on the DREAMS OF DUST [Rêves de rored their experiences and gave youth a situation in his country. But at the airport, poussière] a mysterious, compromising letter is medium to express themselves, inciting a Tuesday, March 11, 9:40 found in his belongings. Adoum is arrest- timely sense of black pride. DIR/PROD Mocktar, a Nigerian peasant, comes looking ed and ends up in the underground dun- Weaam Williams. South Africa, 2006, geon run by the notorious Colonel for work in Essakane, a dusty gold town in color, 48 min. NOT RATED Koulbou. When Adoum's friend tracks Northeast Burkina Faso where he hopes him down, it is already too late. Mean- to forget his haunting past. He quickly finds Director Charles Burnett in Person with out the gold rush ended 20 years before, NAMIBIA: THE STRUGGLE FOR and the inhabitants of this strangely time- LIBERATION less wasteland exist simply from force of Sunday, March 9, 1:00 habit. The beautiful Coumba, however, still Covering over 60 years of history, NAMIB- courageously struggles to raise her daugh- IA tells the story of Namibia’s first presi- ter after the death of her family. Soon dent, Sam Nujoma, charting his political Mocktar will be fighting not only to survive, awakening and his part in his country's but also to provide a better future for this fight against South African occupation. mother and child. DIR/SCR Laurent Rather than a documentary-style history Salgues. France/Canada/Burkina Faso, of the long, brutal conflict, the film mixes 2006, color, 86 min. In French with real and composite characters to explore TARTINA CITY English subtitles. TICKETS & FULL SCHEDULE at WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER n 3 OUSMANE SEMBÈNE All notes courtesy of disputes, and religious turf wars threaten Film Forum to escalate into mayhem. DIR/SCR/PROD Ousmane Sembène; PROD Jacques Perrin. France/Germany/ Senegal, 1992, color, FAAT KINÉ 115 min. In French and Wolof with Friday, March 7, 9:45 English subtitles. Sembène explores women's lives in contem- porary Dakar, Senegal's bustling capital, in CEDDO this warm, often funny story of a single Thursday, March 13, 9:20 mother, her two children, two ex-husbands, In a 19th-century village, a princess is kid- aged mother and assorted friends. Sembène napped, and a Muslim imam struggles culturally and politically contextualizes her against a Catholic priest for religious and thoroughly modern triumphs and anxieties political control, while the ceddo (“ched- in a Dakar that has shantytowns as well as doe”, or common people) try to hold on high-rises, streets crowded with cattle as to their traditional ways.
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