Have you ever wondered what happens after you die? Take a trip through this ‘waiting room’ and find out in this humorous story of the living and the dead.
Dates: July 22-24, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: Friday 6 & 8.30pm, Weekend 3, 6 & 8.30pm
Tickets: Kshs 500
Tickets Info: 0787 399 617, 0715 695 452 and Tickets Kenya
Dead Talk is a play by Cajetan Boy, directed by Caroline Odongo and presented by Etcetera Productions
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Dates: July 18-20, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 6pm
Entry: Free
July 18, 2011
Son of Babylon by Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq (2010 – 1h30)
In the days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, a young Kurdish boy and his grandmother venture through Iraq on a quest to find their missing father/son.
July 19, 2011
Winter’s Bone by Debra Granik, United States (2010 – 1h40)
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her missing father while trying to keep her family intact.
July 20, 2011
Amreeka by Cherien Dabis, United States (2009 – 1h36)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois, they find their new lives replete with challenges.
The films are presented by Film Aid International & Film Forward in partnership with the Sundance Institute with the aim of advancing cultural dialogue.
All films will be preceded by a short film produced by refugees in Kenya.
For more information visit: www.filmaid.org/festival
Dates: July 14-21, 2011
Venues: Goethe Institut, Alliance Française, GoDown Arts Centre, Dadaab, Kakuma
Entrance: Free
Contacts: 0204443385, +254 722 540 543 or Nairobi@filmaid.org
Website: http://www.sundance.org/filmforward/
Festival includes: Workshops, regular screenings, feature short films, outdoor community screening, seminar and documentaries.
Download the Sundance Film forward Draft Schedule.doc
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mbsvw-IlJI&feature=player_embedded#at=111] “FilmAid International, though its innovative work of screening films in refugee camps, makes a significant difference in the daily lives of refugees.”
The French Cultural Centre Nairobi and Courrier International Magazine are calling professional and amateur photographers to the 2011 Photography Competition.
Theme: The World of Women
Deadline: September 15, 2011
For more info email: cultural2@alliancefrnairobi.org
Download Application Form world of women 2011
Rakeeb Hassan returns to Kenya for an exhibition of his recent works. Having lived in Kenya in the 1990s and studied fine arts in Kenya, Rakeeb held several solo exhibitions here before emigrating to Canada in 2000. Rakeeb has also exhibited in the UK, India, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Canada, and has worked on a choreographic project in France, in Montpellier and La Rochelle. Rakeeb’s stylized and colourful paintings are inspired from folk art, African masks and flora and fauna.
Opening July 12th at 18:30
A documentary film which deals with the terrible events of the 2002 Venezuelan coup d’état attempt
Date: July 4, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française
Time: 6pm
Entry: Free
Puente Llaguno: Claves de Una Masacre (Llaguno Bridge Keys to Massacre) by Angel Palacios (2004 -1h45)
Presented by Pamoja Film Initiative as part of the celebrations of the Bicentennial of the Venezuelan Independence
Disturbia is an original dance/musical presentation by Festival of Creative Arts.
Dates: July 8-10, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française
Time: Friday at 6:30 and 8pm, Weekends at 3, 6 and 8pm
Tickets: Kshs 400 Advance, Kshs 500 at the door
Contacts: 0726524124, 020-2025811, 0734524124|fcakenya@gmail.com
This play weaves together poetry, dance, music, and drama to transcend the pain and anguish of a young man caught in the middle of societal moral degradation. The fast-paced play offers diversity, virtuosity, humour, musicality and entertainment that will stimulate your senses and imagination.
Screening at 6pm
RESTREPO
by Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger (2010 – 1h33)
Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival
A documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. The goal of the film is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. Hetherington was killed in April 2011 while covering the Libyan war
