Dates: November 7-10, 2017
Venue: Various
Program
https://issuu.com/mamaafrikafilmfestival/docs/booklet-4
About
Mama Africa Film Festival (formerly, Udada Film Festival) has been the first and only women’s film festival in the East African region. This year’s Festival focus on GENDER and will also be showcasing Udada’s winning films for the past three years.Here is the link to this year’s Festival Program.
https://ff.hrw.org/nairobi
Update: Due to the current situation, this year’s HRW, HRW Film Festival in Nairobi has been postponed – indefinitely.
Take Note…
Date and time: Thu. 28th Sept. at 6.30pm
Venue: Alliance Française
Title: Black Dandy, a political beauty. A documentary by Laurent Lunetta and Ariel Wizman. Distributed by Canal Plus
About
Black Dandy explores “black dandyism” from the days of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to today’s masculine chic. It documents historic and contemporary scenes of popular and celebrity culture and everyday life where Black dandies, in the streets of Brooklyn, Johannesburg, London and Paris, are redefining the landscape of ‘black dandyism’ as a blend of detachment and strength, nonchalance and control.
Dates: Until May 24, 2017
Venue: Fox Theatre, Sarit Centre
Time: 3 pm – midnight
Entry: 1 ticket kes 300, Students kes 150.
About
Embassy of the State of Israel wishes to invite you for the screening of Israeli films from 22nd – 24th May, 2017, at the Fox Theatres, Sarit Centre.The films, which are themed from love stories, drama, science fiction, just to mention a few, are a celebration of 50th anniversary of the unification of Jerusalem.
The Directors of some of the films to be showcased will be available for master classes, interactions and networks.
All are invited to attend and enjoy. Get your tickets from www.sherekea.org
Date: March 29, 2017
Venue: Pawa 254 Hub
Time: 6.30-9.30 pm
Entry: Free
Find more information, here
Date: Saturday, February 18, 2017
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill
Time: 2:00p.m. – Gates Open: 1:30p.m
Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans but prior registration is required
Synopsis
In Hiroshima in 1948, memories of the atomic bombing three years earlier are still fresh in the minds of the people. Mitsue (Miyazawa Rie) works at a library where she meets Mr. Kinoshita (Asano Tadanobu), a shy, young man researching the disaster. They grow close, and Mr. Kinoshita eventually asks for her hand in marriage. However, Mitsue is troubled by her memories of the bombing when she was unable to save her father, Takezo (Harada Yoshio), and her closest friends as well as the many others who lost their lives. She doubts whether she deserves to have survived. Then the spirit of her father appears before her, and asserts that she should be happy. Watching over her budding romance with Mr. Kinoshita, Takezo cajoles and encourages Mitsue into opening her heart again.
Date: January 27, 2017
Venue: BIEA, Laikipia Road
Time: 2-4 pm
About
On 27 January 2017, the Rift Valley Forum and the British Institute in Eastern Africa will host the launch of My Camera, My Life. In his autobiography, Mohinder revisits his records of events that shaped his career as well as Kenya’s history and beyond. He documents Kenya’s independence heroes and his close relationship with top African political leaders, including Kenya’s Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. The book also highlights his records of the 1980s famines in Ethiopia, Karamoja in Uganda and Turkana in Kenya.The Forum will host an accompanying exhibition of photographs and documentary films shot by Sir Mohinder between 1952 to 2008.
Copies of the autobiography will be on sale at the launch for KSH 4,500/=.
Dates: December 6 – 10, 2016
Time & Venue: 6:30pm, Alliance Française auditorium
Free Entry
Saturday 10 December @ 10am Special Children’s Show
About
6 to 10 December – a rebellious week of films by filmmakers who are engaged in cinema as an instrument of struggle and change. Stories of activism and resistance preceded by screening of smart phone shorts #filmbyphone
http://www.alliancefrnairobi.org/nairobi/french-film-festival/
Dates: December 5-9, 2016
Venue: Pawa 254 Hub
About
Many people fleeing conflicts hope that refugee camps would be a temporary home while they await peace and stability to return to their home countries. Unfortunately, many have ended up staying in the camps for decades.
On Thursday 1 December 2016, the Rift Valley Forum and the Church of Sweden will screen the documentary, If we ever get out of here, by Marika Grieshel and Lollo Jarnebrink, followed by a discussion.If we ever get out of here documents the lives of ordinary people who have become long-term refugees, stuck in the Kakuma camp, suspended from opportunity and isolated from all that is familiar.
The story of the daily struggles of Klementine, Deeqa and Jackson aims to give a greater understanding of the importance of psychosocial support for refugees.
The Kakuma refugee camp was founded in Kenya in 1991 and was originally planned as a temporary solution for young boys fleeing the civil wars in Sudan. It is now home to about 200, 000 people forced to flee conflict in the neighbouring countries.
Discussants
Marika Griehsel, Film DirectorElse Berglund, Church of Sweden
Collins Onyango, Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
Jackson Mumbere, Kakuma Refugee Camp Resident
Entrance is by prior registration only. Register here
