Dates: August 21-23, 2013
Venue: Alliance, Kibera & Mathare
Theme of the Festival: The Right to Tell Our Stories
Programme
Film Aid Festival: Movies, Documentaries, Film by Refugees, Award Ceremonies, Panel Discussions & Regular Screenings
Screening: Israeli Film Festival, Jun. 11-15 2013 @ Alliance
Dates: June 11-15, 2013
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Time: 5.30 pm and 7.30 pm
Entry: Free
Programme
June 11, 2013: 5.30 pm – Metallic Blues, 7.30 pm – The Matchmaker
June 12, 2013: 5.30 pm – Campfire, 7.30 pm – The Human Resource Manager
June 13, 2013: 5.30 pm – Frozen Days, 7.30 pm – Mabul (the Flood)
June 14, 2013: 5.30 pm – Five hours from Paris, 7.30 pm – Footnote
June 15, 2013: 4.00 pm – Turn left at the end of the World, 7.30 pm – Restoration
European Film Festival: Searching for Sugar Man, May 13, 19 & 23 2013 @ Alliance
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Tickets: Kshs 50
Screening Dates & Time
May 13, 2013 at 5.30 pm
May 19, 2013 at 5.30 pm
May 23, 2013 at 7.30 pm
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Searching for Sugar Man tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest ’70s rock icon who never was. Discovered in a Detroit bar in the late ’60s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, they recorded an album which they believed would secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon. The film follows the story of two South African fans who set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation leads them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez. — (C) Sony Pictures Classics
Winner of the 2013 Oscar for Best Documentary & BAFTA Film Award for Best Documentary
Book Presentation/Film & Panel Discussion: An Evening with Dr. Auma Obama, May 9 2013 @ Goethe Institut
Date: May 9, 2013
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 6 pm
Entrance free of charge
Dr. Auma Obama, the elder sister of the US president Barack Obama, launched the original version of her memoir in German in March 2011 at the Goethe-Institut. The memoir has since been translated into English.
Dr. Obama will participate in a discussion of her book “And Then Life Happens”, followed by the screening of a documentary film about her life “The Education of Auma Obama” (by Branwen Okpako, 2011).
Dr. Obama studied German at the University of Heidelberg, Film Production at the German Film and TV Academy in Berlin, and later obtained her PhD from the University of Bayreuth in 1996.
Photo Exhibition: Lest We Forget, May 8-26 2013 @ Alliance Francaise
Opening Date & Time: May 8, 2013 at 6 pm
Exhibition Dates: Until May 26, 2013
Venue: Alliance Française
The documentary Slave Routes: A Global Vision, a UNESCO production will be screened on this occasion.
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22nd European Film Festival, May 10-26 2013 @ Alliance Francaise
Dates: May 10-26, 2013
Venue: Alliance Francaise Auditorium
Time:
Weekdays 5.30 & 7.30 pm
Weekends 3, 5.30 & 7.30 pm
Tickets: Kshs 50
Programme
International Premier Screening: Premier/Divisions, May 2 2013 @ Kuona Trust
Date: May 2, 2013
Venue: Kuona Trust
Time: 1900 Hrs
Premier / Divisions (TRAILER) from chrispauldaniels on Vimeo.
For more info visit Chris Paul Daniels blog
Opening & Screening: Taking Root – The Vision of Wangari Maathai, Mar. 11 2013 @ Alliance
Date: March 11, 2013
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Time: 6 pm
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater (2009) – 53min
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Followed by a discussion with:
– Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, Founder and Executive Director, Akili Dada
– Njeri Gakonyo, Chair of the Board of Directors, The Green Belt Movement
Thereafter
Cocktail reception to launch the photo exhibition Planète Femmes (The World of Women) winning photos from the 2011 International Photo Competition organized by the Alliance Française Foundation
Pawa Salon: How to cover Elections by Boniface Mwangi, Feb. 21 2013 @ Pawa254 Hub
Join Pawa Boniface Mwangi for a Master talk, on “How to Cover Elections” on Thursday, 21st February 2013, 5-7pm at Pawa Hub.
“I covered the post-election violence at a great personal risk and sacrifice, though l escaped all that mayhem physical unharmed, am sill nursing the psychological violence inflicted by witnessing the violence.” – Boniface Mwangi
Presentation: Premier/Divisions by Chris Paul Daniels, Feb. 15 2013 @ Kuona Trust
Date – Friday 15th February 2013
Venue – Kuona Trust, Likoni Close
Time – 7 pm
Address – Likoni Lane,Off Dennis Pritt, Hurlingham
British Film and Video Artist, Chris Paul Daniels, presents work made in response to his five week residency at Kuona Trust, Nairobi supported by the Triangle Network and Gasworks Gallery (London) International Fellowship Programme.
Chris will have screenings and video installations on view throughout the grounds of the Kuona space and be performing Live Visuals that showcase filmic collaborations, animations and time-lapse studies made during his Residency accompanied by a live musical performance by Ketebul music’s recording artist Ochieng’ Nelly
The video work previews raw unedited footage of a larger documentary piece titled ‘Premier/Divisions’ which will premiere at Kuona Trust at a later date in March and will therefore be VJ’d as a freely improvised and live visual performance in reaction to the music.
About
Chris graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 and subsequently won the Deutsche Bank Award for Art for his collaborative film project – ‘Unravel the longest hand painted film in Britain’ (http://unravelfilm.blogspot.co.uk) which has toured over ninety art spaces throughout the UK including Tate Britain, The National Media Musuem and the British Film Institute. He has worked on several international projects in Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands and screened work extensively in the UK and internationally.
His work in characterised by experimental documentation of shared memories and communal perspectives and this will be reflected in the documentary he has been producing during his first visit to the continent.
http://www.chrispauldaniels.blogspot.com/
http://www.chrispauldaniels.com/