Pop-up Cinema/Screening: Free Solo by Unseen Nairobi, Sept. 14 2019 @ Alpha Fit Gym – Ngong Road

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Date: September 14, 2019
Venue: Alpha Fit gym, Ngong Road
Tickets: Available, here

Unseen Nairobi is popping up again to screen the multi award winning FREE SOLO.

“FREE SOLO is less about climbing than it is about living. An extraordinary gift to everyone who believes that the limit of human achievement is far from being reached.” THE NEW YORK TIMES

Please join us at the appropriate setting, Alpha Fit gym on Ngong Road to experience this epic feature this September, Saturday 14th. The doors open from 6 pm for sundowners and pizza, and the screening starts at 8pm.

From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (“MERU”) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock … the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park … without a rope.

Another unusual location with music, sundowners and fresh pizza from the charcoal oven, we can’t wait to see you all there!

Film Screening: “Sacred Places”, by Jean-Marie Teno, Mar. 30 2019 @ Kenyatta Market – Ngumo

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Film screening of Sacred Places this Saturday 30, March 2019, 4 pm at Room #5 2nd Floor Fairlane House, Kenyatta Market – Ngumo

Sacred Places: 2009, Documentary, Color, Cameroon/France, 70 minutes
French with English subtitles.

A Film by Jean-Marie Teno
Set in St-Leon, a modest neighborhood tucked between a cathedral and two mosques in the city of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, where 40 years, the world’s most famous FESPACO(Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou) showcases the best achievements of African film making. Sacred Places, is a film about fight to survive and maintain one’s dignity in a hostile environment.

Through the lives of three characters: Jules Cesar, the djembe maker and player, Bouba the village club manager of a neighborhood movie salon that also serves as a praying place, and Abbo a fifty year old senior technician who decided to be a public letter writer. Jean-Marie Teno lays out his rich very complex and profound observations on many paradoxes of today’s Africa. One of the many contradictions the director displays is the absence of African films in African distribution at a time of remarkable technological advances.

Jean-Marie Teno
Born in Cameroon, Jean-Marie Teno arrived in France in 1978 and has been producing and directing social issue films on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty five years for international television broadcast and theatrical release. His films are noted for their personal and original approach to issues of race, cultural identity, African history and contemporary politics.

Teno’s films have been honored at festivals worldwide: Berlin, Toronto, Yamagata, Cinéma du Réel, Visions du Réel, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Liepzig, San Francisco, and London. Many have been broadcast in Europe and featured in festivals across the United States. Teno has been a guest of the Flaherty Seminar, an artist in residence at the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California,Berkeley, a Copeland Fellow in Amherst College, and has lectured at numerous universities.

More about Jean-Marie Teno: https://vimeo.com/user5688138/about

Unseen Pop-up Cinema: Liyana, Mar. 23 2019 @ Circle Art Gallery

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Date: March 23, 2019
Venue: Circle Art Gallery – 910 James Gichuru Road
Time: 5.30 – 11.30 pm
Tickets: Film – KES 700/-, Film & Food KES 1,300/- (Available, here)

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This Saturday Unseen Nairobi organises it’s third event.

Popping up in the garden of Circle Art Gallery, we will be screening the magical and brilliant film LIYANA. For more information, visit the Facebook event page