The Brazilian Embassy in Nairobi is organizing for the first time a Brazilian Film Festival. It is going to be held at the Louis Leakey Auditorium of the Nairobi National Museum from November 18 -20, 2011.
Entrance is Free
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Film Summaries and Discussants
Monday 14 November 2011, 7:30 p.m: The Green Wave (Iran)
By providing a backdrop for the urgent blog posts and tweets that became a lifeline to Iranian pro-democracy activists, The Green Wave recounts the dramatic events of one of the most severe domestic crises in the history of Iran. Filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi takes viewers into the world of Iranian citizens who risked their lives in the hopes of a better future. Interweaving online posts, video footage caught by those present, and extensive interviews, the film is an artistic portrait of modern political rebellion, an exposé of government-sanctioned violence, and a vision of hope that continued resistance may galvanize a new future.
Discussants: Atsango Chesoni (Kenya Human Rights Commission), Mwalimu Mati (Mars Kenya), and Njonjo Mue (International Center for Transitional Justice)
Tuesday 15 November 2011, 6:30 p.m: You Don’t Like the Truth(U.S./Guantanamo)
Luc Côté and Patricio Henríquez’s shocking You Don’t Like The Truth – 4 Days inside Guantanamo uses seven hours of declassified security camera footage from the Canadian government to show the interrogation of 16-year-old Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen and Guantanamo detainee. The film delves into the unfolding high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive as it analyzes the political, legal, and psychological aspects of the interrogation through interviews with Khadr’s lawyers, a psychiatrist, an investigative journalist, former Guantanamo detainees, and a former US interrogator.
Discussants: Al-Amin Kimathi (Muslim Human Rights Forum), Mbugua Mureithi (Advocate), Binaifer Nowrojee (Open Society Initiative for East Africa)
Wednesday 16 November 2011, 6:30 p.m.: Impunity (Colombia)
Hollman Morris and Juan José Lozano’s Impunity documents the hearings in which Colombian paramilitary members describe atrocities they have committed as the families of their victims listen and watch on computer screens. Through this testimony, footage of the crimes, and interviews with victims and experts, the brutal history of paramilitary violence comes to light. Yet due to serious irregularities in the justice and peace process, many families express their fear that they will never know the truth surrounding the deaths of their loved ones, and that the perpetrators will escape punishment.
Discussants: Christine Alai (International Centre for Transitional Justice), Margaret Shava (Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission), representative of the Embassy of Colombia in Kenya (invited)
Thursday 17 November 2011: The Team (Kenya)
Patrick Reed’s remarkable The Team brings us behind the scenes of an innovative television soap opera that aims to ease Kenya’s volatile ethnic tensions and set the stage for dialogue and understanding. The story line focuses on a tribally diverse soccer team whose members must find ways to overcome deep-rooted hatred and work together to succeed. Thousands of viewers across Kenya gather around their TV screens to watch the story unfold—building mutual understanding and acceptance with each episode. Yet the message may come too late, as the actors themselves may become victims of the discrimination they have been so passionately seeking to combat.
Discussants: Mburugu Gikunda (Media Focus on Africa), cast members of ‘The Team’
The Eastern Africa office of the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) is calling for short and long fiction, documentary, animation and experimental film entries for its 2012 edition scheduled for April 2012. The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2011.
Only films produced and released between December 2010 and December 2011 are eligible. Features may not exceed 120 minutes and shorts may not be longer than 40 minutes.
Submission forms can be downloaded from www.ama-awards.com Nominations
will be announced in February 2012.
Since its inception in 2005, AMAA has established itself as the most prestigious and glamorous awards celebrating filmmaking on the continent. The gala event, which is televised live around the world, attracts Hollywood celebrities alongside their African counterparts, as well as African politicians and media.
Entries from Eastern Africa are handled by Lola Kenya Screen in Nairobi, Kenya. Further information or clarification is available via director@lolakenyascreen.org or cell 254 733 703374 or 254 722 486531.
TOGETHERNESS SUPREME is the story of an artist, searching for change in the midst of ethnic tension in the slums. Based on true events and the ethnic conflict that tore apart a country. Created in collaboration with the community in front and behind the camera. Featuring music from Juliani, Yunasi, A Boy Landlord, Onechot and others.
When: Sunday, December 4 · 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Where: Central Park
FREE entrance
Due to unavoidable circumstances Cajetan Boy film screenings have been cancelled. A new date will be communicated later. Any inconvenience caused is highly regretted by G.I.
Dates: November 4-5, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: Nov 4, 2011 at 4pm and Nov. 5, 2011 at 3pm
Entrance: Free
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. Goethe Institut in their Homage series, which introduced Jacob Barua, Judy Kibinge, Willie Owusu, and Jane Murago-Munene to a keenly interested audience, continues with Cajetan Boy.
Cajetan Boy is a playwright, screenwriter, lecturer in screenwriting, mentor, performing artist, and the Products Development Leader for Et Cetera Productions Limited, an independent film and TV production house. His first full-length play was Benta (2000) which was published and later produced as a feature film in 2006. Many of his stage plays have also been produced as feature films.
Cajetan is an alumnus of the Maisha Film Lab. Other than film and stage, he has written extensively for Comic Books, Radio, and TV, i.e. several episodes of dramas, soaps and sit-coms. As usual in this series, a representative selection of his corpus of work will be screened, and accompanied by a discussion with the filmmaker.
The Patamango Association, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Argentine Republic to Kenya, is organising two cultural evenings of Tango, combining film, music and live dance! Each of these Noches del Tango will start with a screening of a superb tango music film, followed by an exhibition of traditional tango social dancing. Subsequently the floor will be open for a Milonga, or social tango gathering, for the dancing pleasure of the growing tango community in Nairobi as well as for the aural and visual pleasure of everyone else!
These unique tango music film screenings, never before screened publicly in Kenya, will be in Spanish with English sub-titles.
Entrance to both these evenings is absolutely free, and so please do bring along all your friends who are intrigued by the mysteries of tango and its music!
The programme for Noches del Tango is as follows:
6:00 pm – Tue 8 Nov 2011 – El último aplauso
Evening starts in the Auditorium at Alliance Française in Nairobi, at 6:00 pm for film screening at 6:30. The 88 minute landmark tango musical documentary–with its absolutely gorgeous soundtrack–will be followed by a live Tango exhibition, just upstairs from the Auditorium at the Multi-Purpose Room and Terrace. Everyone, dancers and non-dancers alike, are then invited to stay on and get a first-hand taste of a Milonga, as the dance floor is opened up for “social tango dancing”, a great opportunity to simply enjoy beautiful Tango music and dancing!
4:30 pm – Sat 26 Nov 2011 – Si Sos Brujo: una historia de tango
Evening starts in the ERC Hall at the Tribe Hotel, at 4:30 pm for film screening at 5:00. The 79 minute–beautifully shot, beautifully put together, and a real insight into the world of tango music–documentary will be followed by a live openair Tango social dancing event, or Milonga, just outside at ERC Patio, during which there will be live demonstrations of traditional social Tango dancing! Everyone, dancers and non-dancers alike, are invited to stay on to simply enjoy beautiful Tango music and dancing.
At the Italian Institute of Culture on Wednesday 26th October 2011 at 6.30pm
The movie is in Italian only.
The Italian Institute of Culture has the pleasure of inviting you to the screening, in Italian, of Mario Martone’s award winning epic film “Noi Credevamo”.
Where: Istituto Italiano di Cultura – Michelangelo Hall
When: Monday 24th October 2011 at 6.30pm.
Entrance free
Date: October 20, 2011
Venue: Kenya National Theatre
Location: Harry Thuku Road, Opposite Norfolk Hotel
Time: 7-9pm
Applied Theories of Expanding Minds
Multi channel video installation, short film HDV 2009-2011
In a transforming Kenya, a group of people has created a new tribe. Applied Theories of Expanding Minds shows some of them engaged in ritual actions with the purpose to change their community.
The film was shot in Kenya in 2009 and emerge from the artistic research project You Look Like Milk, that took its starting point in a post-colonial discourse in which we examine how we create images of the Other.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/16539475]
For more information: http://zbrproductions.com/
