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Screenings: Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Nov. 14-17 2016 @ Alliance Française

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hrw-festival-2016
Dates: November 14-17, 2016
Venue: Alliance Française

Human Rights Watch Film Festival
The 2016 HRW Film Festival returns to the Alliance Française. Nairobi is one of over 20 cities around the world that hosts the Film Festival.

The festival encourages filmmakers around the world to address human rights subject matter in their work and presents films from both new and established international filmmakers. The films brings to life human rights abuses through storytelling in a way that challenges each individual to empathize and demand justice for all people.

At Alliance Française, the following films will be showing. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Among the Believers, Mediterranea & Tuko Macho.

All screenings will be followed by panel discussions.

https://ff.hrw.org/nairobi

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Screenings: Udada Film Festival, Oct. 24-28 2016 @ Kenya National Theatre & Pawa 254 Hub

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Dates: October 24-28, 2016
Venue: Kenya National Theatre, Pawa 254 Hub
Time: 10 am – 8 pm (October 25-27, 2016)
Entry: Free

About
The Embassy of Spain is pleased to invite you to the Udada Film Festival, which this Embassy supports every year and which will take place from Monday 24th October to Friday 28th October 2016.

On Monday 24th at 6pm, the opening ceremony of the Festival will be held at the Kenya National Theatre and it will coincide with the “Spanish Night” of the Festival where Spanish films will be screened.

From 25th to 27th October, the Festival will take place from 10am to 8pm daily at the PAWA 254 cultural centre.

On Friday 28th, the closing ceremony will be held at PAWA 254 at 6pm.

Admission is free at all the events of the Festival.

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Screening: NORIBEN – A Recipe of Fortune, Sept. 17 2016 @ Japan Information & Culture Centre

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Noriben
The Japan Information & Culture Centre invites you to the screening of the movie “NORIBEN – A Recipe of Fortune” which will be shown on Saturday, September 17, 2016.
Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans.

Date: Saturday, September 17, 2016
Time: 2:00p.m.
Gates Open: 1:30p.m.
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill

Synopsis
Komaki NAGAI, 31, was raised in the working-class Kyojima area of Tokyo. She has had enough of her good-for-nothing younger husband, Noritomo, and takes her daughter, Noriko, aka ‘Nonchan,’ back to live with her mother at the Kyojima home that she was raised in. Komaki doesn’t want to become a burden to her mother, Fumiyo, so looks for a job. But there are few employment opportunities for an over-30 single mother with no qualifications and no experience. She accepts a part-time job for the time being, and re-encounters her former senior high school classmate, Tateo. Komaki is developing a passion for Tateo, who takes her to a small tavern called “Totoya.” There, she tastes the ‘mackerel in miso’ and is astonished. She is completely enraptured by the taste, and becomes determined to open the “ultimate cheap but tasty box lunch shop.” She enlists the assistance of “Totoya,” but then…

For more information on the movie, please refer the poster; call 020-2898510; email jinfocul@nb.mofa.go.jp or have a look at the Cinema Japan Page on their website (http://www.ke.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/CinemaJapan.html)

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Slum Film Festival 2016, Aug. 22-26 2016 @ Various Venues in Nairobi

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SIFF 2016
Dates: August 22-26, 2016
Venues: Mathare, Kibera, Kawangware and Mukuru

About
The 2016 edition of the Slum Film Festival, taking place from 22nd to 26th August, focuses on the various achievements that have been made in the past decade through the Millennium Development Goals, and aims to promote citizen engagement with regards to the newly formulated Sustainable Development Goals.

For 5 days, the communities in Mathare, Kibera, Kawangware and Mukuru will be treated to a repertoire of films from 70 countries around the world – some of which were nominated in the festival and others that are pre-selected for screening by the 2016 panel of judges. The community screenings will focus on short stories representing and exploring slum realities.

For more information on the 2016 edition of the Slum Film Festival: http://www.slumfilmfestival.net/about-sff2016/

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Dinner And Movie: What We Do In the Shadows, Apr. 12 2016 @ The Alchemist

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Dinner and a Movie_April 12th
This time we’re going to be showing “What We Do In the Shadows” (2014). The comedy follow the lives of three really old vampires as they adjust to modern life and was written by the brilliant writers behind the famous television series ‘Flight of the Conchords’. It was among the top comedies of the year with over 19 wins and 18 nominations across the globe!
event facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/706658659437728/
Check out more about the movie here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416742/

Sundowners start @ 6:00PM with relaxing music curated by Monroe Marcus and the movie starts @ 8:00PM.

As always, enjoy a delicious Mama Rocks burger or mouth-watering pizza from Upendo Pizza

Happy hour from 6:00PM to 8:00PM with buy 1 get 1 free cocktails!

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Film Screening: Living in Emergency, Nov. 25 2015 @ PAWA 254

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living in emergency

You are invited to watch yet another breathtaking multiple award winning film at our monthly screening on 25th November from 6pm – 9pm at PAWA 254.

Please reserve your tickets here: http://bit.ly/LIEtickets

The entry is FREE!

Feel free to also donate whatever amount to support your choice of cause.

SYNOPSIS:

Bosnia. Rwanda. Kosovo. Sierra Leone. Pakistan. Just a few of the world’s humanitarian and political crises in the past years. Whether the result of war or nature, these disasters devastate populations and cripple health systems. Despite the immense dangers and difficulties of the work, one organization, Doctors Without Borders, has continuously intervened at these front-lines of overwhelming human need.

Filmed in the war-zones of Liberia and Congo with unprecedented access to the field operations of Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) , Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders follows four volunteer doctors as they struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.

Two volunteers are new recruits: a 26 year old Australian doctor stranded in a remote bush clinic and an American surgeon struggling to cope under the load of emergency cases in a shattered capital city.

Two others are experienced field hands: a dynamic Head of Mission, valiantly trying to keep morale high and tensions under control, and an exhausted veteran, who has seen too much horror and wants out.

Amidst the chaos, each volunteer must confront the severe challenges of the work, the tough choices, and the limits of their own idealism.

Hoping to see you and your bunch of friends.