Film Screening: La Bellezza del Somaro (Love & Slaps), Jul. 4 2012 @ Italian Institute of Culture

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Directed by: Sergio Castilitto
Starring: Sergio Castellitto, Laura Morante and Enzo Jannacci
Year of production: 2010
Genre: Comedy
Running time: 107 minutes
Language: Italian with English subtitles

It was to be a relaxed weekend in the country for Marcello and Marina – he an architect, she a psychologist, two modern, enlightened fifty-year-olds – if their daughter Rosa, 16, rebellious and spoiled, hadn’t decided to bring her new boyfriend home.
Marcello and Marina prepare to meet their daughter’s new love, but they’re unaware of what (and who) awaits them…
In a weekend of extraordinary madness, besieged by a hoard of friends on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Marcello and Marina see their non-conformist convictions suddenly topple.
A hilarious, modern-day comedy centred on the generation gap between two parents who don’t want to grow old and a seventeen-year-old daughter who wants to become an adult.

Italian Institute of Culture
Wednesday, 4th July 2012

Film starts at 6.30pm

2nd Edition of Slum Film Festival, Aug. 6-13 2012 @ Kibera & Mathare

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Dates: August 6-13, 2012
Venue: Kibera & Mathare
Locations/Directions
Kibera Slum Location-Kamukunji Grounds, near Olympic Stage, Kibera Drive. [From downtown Nairobi: bus 32 from Kencom, or 8 from Railways]

Mathare Slum Location-Mabatini Grounds. near Mathare Road. [From downtown Nairobi: bus 46, from Tom Mboya street]

For more information visit the SFF Web-blog: www.slumfilmfestival.org

About SFF
The Slum Film Festival (SFF) is an innovative community-based film event, featuring stories from, by, and about people living in urban slums everywhere.

This edition of the festival will also incorporates film training workshops and art classes.

FilmAid Film Festival, Jun 21 2012 @ Goethe-Institut

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FilmAid Film Festival on Thursday, 21st June 2012

Screening 1 – 4pm: Two short refugee films and feature film Welcome to Shelbyville
Screening 2 – 7pm: Two short refugee films and feature film Africa United

Goethe-Institute Auditorium
No. 3, Monrovia Street
Maendeleo House, Nairobi
Free Entry

For more information on FilmAid: www.FilmAid.org

FilmAid has been screening films in Kenya’s refugee camps since 2001, and producing local content in Kakuma and Dadaab for almost as long. Through a filmmaker training program FilmAid provides young refugees with the resources to tell their own stories in their own voices.

The FilmAid Film Festival showcases films produced in the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps by refugee filmmakers. These short documentaries and dramas offer a powerful insight into life in the camps, which are collectively home to well over half a million individuals.

In 2012 the FilmAid Film Festival screens local and international films in Kakuma, Dadaab and Nairobi, bringing the world of cinema to the refugee community, and refugee stories to a wider Kenyan audience. Founded in 1999 during the Balkan crisis by award-winning producer Caroline Baron (Capote, Monsoon Wedding), FilmAid uses the power of film and media to transcend language and literacy, bringing life-saving information, psychological relief and much-needed hope to refugees and other communities in need around the globe.

Kenyan Cinema – Homage to Wanjiru Kinyanjui, Jun 8-9 2012 @ Goethe-Institut

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Friday, 8th June 2012, 4.00 pm & Saturday, 9th June 2012, 3.00 pm atGoethe-Institut Auditorium
Free Entry
Kenyan Film is making big strides, but many of its protagonists are not well known, not even in Kenya. It’s time to pay homage to their works. The Goethe-Institut series, which introduced Jacob Barua, Judy Kibinge, Willie Owusu, Jane Murago-Munene, Cajetan Boy, to a keenly interested audience, continues with another major protagonist: Wanjiru Kinyanjui, one of Kenya’s veteran film directors.
She studied at the Technical University of Berlin and at the Berlin Film School where she graduated with the award winning feature film The Battle of the Sacred Tree. Wanjiru has since written and directed over 20 films which have been exhibited in many festivals around the world. Her films are inspired by the world around her – from daily conversations, to folktales, to social issues such as equal rights and poverty. Apart from directing for BBC, CNN and German television, she has also made two “Riverwood” films: Manga in America, and Bahati. Her latest film is the award-winning documentary Africa is a Woman’s Name, Njoki Ndung’u.
As usual in this series, a representative selection of her corpus of work will be screened, and accompanied by a discussion with the filmmaker.

Monica Wangu Wamwere: The Unbroken Spirit, May 30 2012 @ National Museum

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Monica Wangu Wamwere: The Unbroken Spirit

The Unbroken Spirit explores the search for justice by a mother (former MP Koigi Wamwere’s mother) for her three sons and forty nine other detainees locked up during the clamour for multiparty democracy in Kenya. It is a story of courage, determination and power for the powerless. Above all, it is the story of a mother’s unconditional love.

Winner, First Prize, Best Documentary at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO)

Director: Jane Murago Munene

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Nairobi National Museum, Louis Leakey Auditorium
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