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Tuesday May 6th Wednesday May 7th Thursday May 8th SIA: Le Rêve du Python |
The Cambridge Arts Picturehouse and Trinity Winstanley Theatre play host to Cambridge's Second African Film Festival. While last year's festival focused on classic African cinema, this year's season brings you groundbreaking Anglophone, Lusophone, and Francophone feature films and documentaries, spanning eleven African countries and with themes ranging from ancient African myths to the current challenges facing the continent. The Festival aims to be both a celebration and appraisal of Africa past and present, and to kick off the week the CALABASH N.I.C.E.R. DJs invite you to mingle to authentic African beats at the Devonshire Arms, on Tuesday 6th May from 8:30pm. |
Private Event: Saturday May 10th Le Prix du Pardon Private Event: |
The highlight of the Festival will be
the presence of three distinguished African filmmakers. On Friday 9th May,
Sarah Maldoror, one of Africa's foremost female directors, will present
her moving film about the struggle for liberation in Angola, Sambizanga
(1972), one of the first films to be made in Africa. Mansour Sora Wade,
Senegal's emerging star, will be in attendance on Saturday 10th May for
the screening of his prize-winning film, Le Prix du Pardon (2001), which
tells the haunting tale of a love-triangle in a small Lebu fishing village
in southern Senegal. And on Sunday 11th May, Oliver Schmitz, well-known
for his courageous anti-apartheid film Mapantsula (1989), will introduce
his most recent film, Hijack Stories (2000), a biting satire on post-apartheid
South Africa. Also featured on the Picturehouse big screen are Africa's
first musical film, Karmen Geï (2001) and the latest film by distinguished
Burkinabé director Dani Kouyaté, Sia: Le Rêve du Python (2000). |
Karmen Geï For More Information: |
Two afternoons (7th and 8th May) of free screenings of digital films – the most recent shorts and documentaries to be made by young African directors – will precede the opening of the Festival's first feature film on Thursday 8th. These screenings will take place at the Trinity Winstanley Theatre, also the venue of Saturday 10th May's "Symposium on African Cinema," the first of its kind at Cambridge, at which two of the principal African film theorists, African filmmakers, and others will share their insights. |
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