CAPETOWN
CINEMA
WORLD
FESTIVAL
2005 CREATIVITY
11 - 20 NOVEMBER
www.sithengi.co.za
Tel: 430 8160
15 - 18 NOVEMBER
10TH ANNIVERSARY
Artscape (City)
Cinema Nouveau Screened by Jameson
(V&A Waterfront)
Cinemax (Promenade, Mitchell’s Plain)
FAWU Hall (Gugulethu)
Kismet (Athlone)
Labia (Orange Str, City)
V&A Waterfront (Amphitheatre)
Zolani Multi-Purpose Cente (Nyanga)
Ster Kinekor Advert
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Index
Festival Director’s Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Foreword by Minister of Arts & Culture - Pallo Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Mayor’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Booking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Cape Town World Cinema Festival Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Opening Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Special Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Features Jury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 - 15
Special Screenings - All the Invisible Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16 - 17
Special Screenings - William Kentridge – 9 Drawings for Projection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Feature Films - In Competition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 - 33
A Disparate World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 - 62
African Retrospective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 - 67
Islam and The World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 - 69
South African Showcase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 - 72
Extreme Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 - 73
Cuban Focus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 - 75
Children’s Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 - 81
Reality Bites - In Competition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 - 87
Reality Bites - Out of Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 - 93
Shorts - In Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 - 95
Shorts - Out of Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 - 98
Programme Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 - 105
Alphabetical Listing of Films - English Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 - 107
Alphabetical Listing of Films - Original Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 - 109
Alphabetical Listing of Directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 - 111
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Sithengi thanks the Sponsors
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(LOGOS)
MAIN PARTNERS (Logos)
Provincial Government of the Western Cape
City of Cape Town
Department of Arts and Culture
Department of Communications
NFVF
SABC
National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF)
SPONSORS (Logos / Mentions)
Ster Kinekor
Nu Metro Film Distribution
Videovision Entertainment
Tempest
TNT
Good Hope FM Radio
The Refinery
Videolab
Cape Film Commission (CFC)
Children’s Broadcasting Foundation in Africa (CBFA)
ANAC (Italian Authors Guild)
Italian Institute
Goethe Institute
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Jameson
French Institute
Danish Film Institute
Norwegian Film Institute
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Festival Director’s Welcome - Michael Auret
Welcome to the Cape Town World Cinema Festival and what I hope will be an unparalleled
cinematic experience. It has been an honour and privilege for me to once again direct the Festival
and with our programmers we have chosen an incredible selection of films that we hope will suit
all tastes in our very different communities. An enduring theme this year is "difference" and our
belief that through our understanding of "the other" we can find a way to understand each other
and the world. Thus, through our Competition and out of competition sections we have tried to
strike a balance between voices from all over the world. "A Disparate World" is our view of the
collection of work that we have found as we have curated the programme this year. Among the
films are those that will entertain, shock or stimulate and we hope that you will leave all of our
films with a sense of enlightenment or just
a sense of community and enjoyment. This is a South African Festival on the African continent,
however, and so at its heart we are
celebrating our South African and African film heritage with a retrospective of great films from film
makers across Africa as well as our South African showcase of South African films already
released. Historically Cape Town has had a very strong Muslim community and throughout the
world Muslim communities have been grappling with each other and the world as new challenges
have arisen. "Islam and the World" contains a number of beautiful and thought provoking films
which we hope will entertain all of us and also cast a spotlight on the realities Muslims face. Our
Childrens Festival has grown every year and we are grateful this year for the partnership of the
Danish Film Institute in bringing in films for the children of Cape Town to watch. On the opposite
side of the scale, the films in our "Extreme Screen" are definitely not for the faint hearted and
anyone squeamish or easily offended should definitely keep away. Finally we have a great
selection of thought provoking documentaries and great shorts which we hope everyone will get
to see. I hope that you will all be able to experience even a fraction of what we have to offer. We
promise you won’t be disappointed.
Michael Auret
Festival Director
Foreword by Minister of Arts & Culture - Dr. Z. Pallo Jordan
My congratulations to Sithengi Film and Television Market as we celebrate its tenth anniversary.
Sithengi began as a platform for the promotion of trade in film and television and as a forum for
the exchange of ideas and information. Sithengi today attracts not only established directors and
producers, but young and aspiring filmmakers, directors and producers. As an agency for film and
film products from the African continent and the rest of the world, Sithengi plays a significant
unifying role to the benefit of all the stakeholders in the industry, government, the arts sector and
the public. The patronage Sithengi receives from major industry players is a measure of its
success. Sithengi provides a platform for African film professionals to dialogue about the state of
African cinema within the context of the global economic order and global cultural industries. It
offers opportunities to evaluate our success and to weigh the challenges, while interrogating the
performance of African countries against international benchmarks and conventions. Sithengi
also plays a role in profiling and promoting the objectives of Nepad. The sharing of stories and
expertise will go a long way to cementing ties across political borders and differences in gender
and language, laying common ground for social and economic collaboration. It is important for
African films to be shown extensively throughout the continent, as the mutual enjoyment of each
other’s culture is part of the regeneration of Africa and the celebration of our African heritage.
Sithengi 2005, like every other film festival, is first and foremost an occasion for our entertainment
and a chance to celebrate our achievements in the international arena in the past year. Ensuring
that a significant number of Africans have easy access to films is a challenge, and
multinational African film agencies have to devise creative ways of using technology to bring
cinema to thousands of people. I am pleased that the Cape Town World Cinema Festival,
attached to Sithengi, gives a broad audience the opportunity to see exciting and thought
provoking films. I wish Sithengi even greater success over the coming ten years, and trust that
the continued dialogue among people in the film industry will contribute to us overcoming the
challenges we face as the African continent. Once again, my congratulations to everyone
involved in Sithengi.
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Foreword by the Mayor - Nomaindia Mfeketo
As the City of Cape Town we are very pleased to be hosting this event in our city once again. It’s
a sign of the growing importance that our local and provincial government places on the film
industry and its current and potential contribution to development in our city and region. There are
many reasons why this has become one of the world’s sought-after locations for film companies.
The range of locations is immense, our local film industry offers creative and technical skills and
our people are hospitable. Film crews have become an everyday site on our streets, and as the
City authorities we have shown our commitment to supporting the industry, now and in the future.
We are determined to become one of the great film capitals of the world, and to move beyond
providing technical skills and great locations to telling our own stories and developing our own
world-class industry. Apart from Cape Town’s beauty, there is also another side to our city. There
are major challenges we face, many of which can only be addressed through continued economic
growth. Your contribution to our local economy helps directly and Indirectly to lift our people out of
the
misery of poverty. It is very valuable and much appreciated. On behalf of the City, I extend a hand
of friendship. I am confident that together we will go from strength to strength, creating hope,
prosperity and great entertainment – and a better life for all. Cape Town has developed an
international reputation as a good location for film industry initiatives. This is a good thing as
many local companies benefit and there is a certain amount of skills transfer that takes place. I
have much hope that this will inspire not only the local filmmakers, but also practitioners across
the continent. So many stories of our city, and indeed the communities across the continent,
remain untold and undocumented. If the industry leaves any legacy, it should the ability of even
more of our people to tell their own stories. Again, I thank everybody involved for their support for
the City of Cape Town and the Province.
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Booking Information
Cinema Nouveau, V & A Waterfront, Screend by Jameson
V & A Waterfront, Red Shed, Waterfront
Tickets from the cinema box office or
Call centre: 082 16789
Ticket price: R20
Labia - Theatre on Orange
68 Orange St, Gardens
Tickets from the cinema box office only.
Ticket price: R20
Kismet Cinema
Kismet Plaza Building, Klipfontein Road, Athlone
Tickets from the cinema box office only; unreserved
seating.
Ticket price: R10
Cinemax
Shop 31, Liberty Promenade, Mitchell’s Plain
Tickets from the cinema box office or
Telephone bookings: 021 376 4807
Ticket price: R15
Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) Hall
Vuyisile Mini Centre, corner NY1 and NY110, Section 3,
Gugulethu
Tickets at the door.
Ticket price: R5 adults, R2.50 children
Zolani Multi-Purpose Centre
Sithandathu Avenue, Nyanga
Tel: 021 386 8656
Tickets at the door.
Ticket price: R5 adults, R2.50 children
Artscape Theatre Centre
DF Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town
Switchboard: 021 410 9800
Box Office: 021 421 7839
Or through Computicket.083 915 8000
Ticket price: R20
V&A Amphitheatre, V&A Waterfront
Dock Road, Cape Town
Waterfront information: 021 408 7500
Ticket price: Free
Key to
Screening Venues
Artscape Theatre AT
Labia On Orange - Screen 1 .....LO1
Labia On Orange - Screen 3 .....LO3
Labia On Orange - Screen 4 .....LO4
Cinema Nouveau 4.....................CN4
Cinema Nouveau 5.....................CN5
Cinema Nouveau 6.....................CN6
V&A Amphitheatre.................Amphi
Kismet, Athlone......................Kismet
Cinemax.....................................CMax
F.A.W.U. Hall ............................FAWU
Zolani Multi-Purpose Centre......ZH
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Cape Town World Cinema Festival Staff
Name & Surname Designation
SITHENGI
Michael Auret Chief Executive Officer / Festival Director
Alison Siebritz-Steyn Personal Assistant to CEO
Esther Henderson Chief Communications Officer
Samantha Hanreck Financial Officer
Joy Lekgau Festival Programmer
Trisha Birkett Assistant Festival Programmer
Zane Carim Operations Manager
Debbie Bond Transport Manager
Jennifer Marneweck Sales Co-ordinator
Roxane Renault Publicity Co-ordinator
Nerissa Solomon Travel Co-ordinator
Isla Haddow Writer
Andrew Whayley Writer
Bruce Kadalie Writer
Marilyn Thompson Publicist
Trevor Swart Website Designer
Nodi Murphy Festival Consultant
Steven Markovitz Festival Consultant
Jay Douwes Production Manager
Joan Legalamitlwa Print Traffic Manager
Kirstin Barwise Production Co-ordinator
Nazeer Ahmed Production Co-ordinator
Amarabela - Outreach Venues
Thabo Mvumvu Co-ordinator
Ndumiso Khovana Co-producer
Lebo Lekoma Co-producer
Matthew Kalil Co-ordinator
Mandisa Ngqulana Zolani Co-ordinator
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Opening Event
Opening Night Spectacular
Friday, 11 November 2005, 7pm
Artscape Opera House
The Cape Town World Cinema Festival invites you to its
Grand Opening & Red Carpet Premiere
of
Tsotsi
Directed by Gavin Hood
Starring Zola; Presley Chweneyagae;
Mothusi Magano, Zenzo Ngqobe, Kenneth Nkosi
After party with Zola & Friends
10pm
Tickets: R60-00 for Film and Party
R30-00 for Party only
Collect your tickets from the Artscape Box Office
from 1 November
Tel: 021 421 7839
Limited public seats to Opening Film, so book now to avoid disappointment
Special Screenings
Saturday 12 November
Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood - Community Red Carpet Screening
7PM
FAWU Hall, Gugulethu
Public after party with live concert
featuring Zola and Friends
(See pg 31 for film synopsis)
Nine Drawings for Projection by acclaimed SA artist, William Kentridge
7PM
With Live Music
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
R50-00
(See pg 18 for film synopsis)
Paradise Now, Directed by Hany Abu-Assad
6PM
Kismet Theatre, Athlone
(See pg 69 for film synopsis)
Definition of Freedom directed by Sharmin Mackay & Kurt Ordersen
7.15PM
Cinemax, Promenade Mall, Mitchell’s Plain
(See pg 89 for film synopsis)
Let’s Hit the Streets by Michael Raeburn
5PM
Cinemax, Promenade Mall, Mitchell’s Plain
(See pg 85 for film synopsis)
Sunday, 13 November
All The Invisible Children by various directors
4.30PM
Artscape Main Theatre
(See pg 16 for film synopsis)
The Mothers’ House by Francois Verster
8PM
Bonteheuwel Multipurpose Centre
Free entry
(See pg 86 for film synopsis)
Monday, 14 November
Mama Jack by Gray Hofmeyr
Starring Leon Schuster
Nu Metro, V&A Waterfront
By invitation only
(See pg 48 for film synopsis)
Saturday, 19 November
All The Invisible Children by various directors - Gala Awards Night Film
7PM
Artscape Main Theatre
By invitation only
(See pg 16 for film synopsis)
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Special Events
The Cape Town World Cinema Festival not only promises a unique cinematic experience of
international films, but the programme is jam-packed with spectacular gala events, red carpet
screenings and functions at the Artscape during the Festival.
12 - 18 & 20 November: Red Carpet Screenings
Red Carpet Screenings of the films in competition will take place from 12 – 18 and 20 November,
excluding the 11th (Opening Night) & 19th (Awards Night) in the Artscape Main Theatre at
6.30pm and 9.30pm.
Saturday, 19 November: Gala Awards Night
The Cape Town World Cinema Festival closes with a glamorous Gala Awards Night on Saturday,
19 November in the Main Theatre, with closing film "All the Invisible Children" by various
directors. By invitation only. The Gala Awards Night is held in recognition and celebration of
filmmakers and their films in the following categories:
• SIGNIS Jury Prize presented by the World Catholic Association for Communication
• Jameson Short Film Award
• Human Rights Network Jury
• NLDTF Newcomers Award sponsored by the National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund
• Lionel Ngakane Award for Most Promising Filmmaker
• Best Documentary
• Best Short Film
• Best Writer
• Best Actress
• Best Actor
• Best Director
• Best African Feature Film
• Critics Jury Award for Best South African Feature Film
• Best Feature Film
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Features Jury
Cameron Bailey
Cameron Bailey is a writer, broadcaster and film programmer in Toronto. He selects international
film for the Toronto International Film Festival, where he founded the Planet Africa section in
1995. He now programs Toronto's African and south Asian selection.
Bailey reviews film for Toronto's Now magazine and CBC Radio One, and for many years
reviewed for the CTV Network's breakfast television show Canada AM. He also produced and
hosted the interview show Filmmaker on the Independent Film Channel Canada.
He has curated film series at festivals and museums in Canada, Europe and Australia, and has
served on awards juries at film
festivals around the world, including FESPACO, Zanzibar, Pusan and Thessaloniki. Born in
London, England and raised in Barbados and Toronto, Bailey graduated from the University of
Western Ontario with an Honours Degree in English literature. He
pursued graduate study in Film at York University. In 1997 Bailey completed his first screenplay,
The Planet of Junior Brown, cowritten with director Clement Virgo. The film was named Best
Picture at the 1998 Urbanworld Film Festival in New York, and
was nominated for a Best Screenplay Gemini Award. He recently completed a video essay shot
in Brazil, Hotel Saudade. It premiered at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival, and won the Best
Canadian Film prize at Montreal's Vues D'Afrique festival. It made
its U.S. premiere in 2005 at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Mahen Bonetti
Born in 1956 in Sierra Leone, Mahen Bonetti comes from a family that has experienced the ups
and downs of post-colonial politics.
Several members of her family were forced into exile in the United States and England in 1970.
Bonetti could only return in 1980 for the funeral of her maternal uncle, former Prime Minister Sir
Albert Margai, who died in the United States. Bonetti received her BA in Administrative Studies at
Bradford College and pursued graduate studies in Media Communication at New York University.
She worked at Young and Rubicam and at Newsweek’s editorial and advertising division, before
becoming founder and Executive Director of the African Film Festival Inc. in 1990. Her
experiences led her to the conclusion that media could be used to encourage positive change in
the world – not just to entertain, but also to educate. "I know what Africa has given me and what
she’s capable of", says Bonetti. Although everyone was talking about Africa at the end of the
1980s, "there was no African voice". This "paradox of culture"—when images of starving African
children flooded television screens while "world music" came into being and "African-American"
emerged as a political concept of identity–led her to finding ways of fostering a cultural dialogue
between Africa and the United States. Realising that cinema would be the ideal medium for such
a cultural exchange, she put all her energy into creating African Film Festival, Inc, whose mission
is to educate and entertain, by promoting cross-cultural communication, cultural identity and
understanding and to give Africa a voice in the 21st Century.
Pedro Pimenta
Pedro Pimenta started his film career with the National Film Institute of Mozambique. He has
produced, co-produced or line produced numerous short fiction, documentaries and feature films
in his country as well as in other African countries such as Angola, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and South
Africa. Amongst them are "Marracuenem", "Two Banks of a River" (Doc. 56min 1989), "The
Tree of the Forefathers" (Doc. 52min 1993), "Fools" (feature drama 1996), "Africa Dreaming" (six
part short drama series 1997), " Tempestade da Terraa" (feature drama 1997), "Zulu Love Letter"
(featuredrama 2003), "Teza" (feature drama 2004), "Memories of Dreams" (Doc. 2005). Between
1997 and 2003, Pedro Pimenta was the Chief Technical Adviser of the UNESCO Zimbabwe Film
& Video Training Project for Southern Africa in Harare and was one of the founders of AVEA
(Audio Visual Entrepreneurs of Africa) which runs an annual professional training program for
producers in Southern Africa. Pedro is currently on the Award Committee
of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development (The Netherlands).
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Wally Serote
Mongane Wally Serote was born in Sophiatown in 1944. In 1969 he spent 9 months in solitary
confinement for unspecified crimes
against the State but was released without being charged. In 1974, after winning the Ingrid
Jonker prize, he left South-Africa on a Fulbright scholarship, which enabled him to study for a
Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University in New York. He returned to South Africa in 1979 and
went into self-imposed exile in Botswana, where he worked at the Medu Arts Ensemble. He
returned to South Africa in 1990. In 1994 he was elected to Parliament and appointed chairman
of the ANC’s portfolio committee for Arts, Culture, Language, Science and Technology. He has
written short stories, novels (To Every Birth its Blood and Gods of Our Time),
edited anthologies and won various literary prizes, among others the Ingrid Jonker Prize in 1973
and the NOMA Award in 1993.
Mongane Wally Serote is one of South Africa’s pre-eminent poets. In the 1970s he was judged by
the English Academy to be
the most significant poet to have emerged in Southern Africa during that decade, and his poetry
has been central to the renaissance of black writing in this country. He now lives in Pretoria
where he is the Director of the Freedom Park Heritage Project as well as heading up the ANC
Department of Arts and Culture.
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Mweze Ngangura
Mweze Ngangura was born in Bukavu in 1950. He studied cinema at the Institut des Arts et
Diffusion (IAD) in Brussels. After his studies he returned to what was then Zaire and became a
fellow in three higher education institutes of Kinshasa. In 1980 he made his first documentary,
Cheri Samba, a portrait of a young popular painter from Kinshasa. Then came Kin Kiesse, on the
sweet and sour joys of Kinshasa la Belle. He wrote and directed La Vie Ese Belle in 1985, which
starred Papa Wemba. It tells the "rags to riches" story of a poor country musician who seeks
fame in the city's vibrant music industry. This was followed a decade later by Pieces d'Identite, a
modern fairy tale set in the vibrant African immigrant world of contemporary Europe. It was the
winner of the most prestigious award in African cinema at Fespaco. In Les Habits Neuf du
Gouverneur he is reunited with Papa Wemba. However the
film's schedule was complicated when Wemba was in prison awaiting trial in Belgium on human
trafficking charges. To preserve his independence, Ngangura founded Sol'Oeil Films in Kinshasa
and Film Sud in Brussels and has been producing his own films since.
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Special Screenings
All the Invisible Children
Sunday 13 November 4.30pm Artscape
Saturday 19 November Awards Night Film
Between August 2004 and August 2005, seven diverse films were realised by eight singularly
brilliant directors who represent seven countries or regions of the world. Each film approaches in
its own unique way one of the world’s most pressing social issues –the neglect and deprivation of
children. Mehdi Charef represents Africa, Emir Kusturica speaks for Serbia-Montenegro, Spike
Lee for the US, Katia Lund for Brazil, Jordan and Ridley Scott, the daughter/father team for the
UK, Stefano Verneruso for Italy, and John Woo for China.
Sunday 13 November 4.30pm Artscape
Saturday 19 November Awards Night Film
Tanza
Dir: Mehdi Charef
12-year-old Tanza is part of a group of seven young freedom fighters, the eldest of which is 21.
Tanza joined the group after his family was massacred. On the way to their target Kali, Tanza’s
13-year-old best friend, is killed by an army patrol. As they reach their destination, Tanza is given
a bomb to deposit in a building. He doesn’t realise that the building is a school.
Blue Gipsy
Dir: Emir Kusturica
When Uros (Blue Gipsy) is released from the juvenile detention centre where he’s spent a long
time, he is filled with conflicting
emotions. On one hand he’ll have to cope with his father who makes him steal, but on the other
he’ll be free in the outside world.
Jesus Children of America
Dir: Spike Lee
Shot entirely on location in Brooklyn, New York, Blanca is a teenager who learns that she was
born HIV positive. With this knowledge, she is introduced to social ostracism and ignorance. As
she explores the counselling and treatment options, she ultimately comes to accept the personal
implications of her condition.
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Bilu and João
Dir: Katia Lund
Bilu and João are two intelligent young street kids struggling to survive in São Paulo. Although
they are children forced to be adults,
they recycle Society’s rubbish to transform their squalid urban surroundings into ingenious
landscapes. When their creative
ambitions take them into strange territory, they need to use all their ingenuity to get out of a jam.
Jonathan
Dirs: Jordan Scott and Ridley Scott
A photojournalist’s assignments have left him shell-shocked, unhinged and disillusioned with life.
He is so desperate to escape his own thoughts and memories that he regresses to when life was
best – his childhood. And so he embarks an adventure, meeting different children who inspire and
challenge him, and discovering the essence of life along the way.
Ciro
Dir: Stefano Veneruso
Ciro and Berticciello are from the poor outskirts of Naples One day they stage a daring, day-time
attack on a motorist to steal his Rolex. Ciro smashes the driver’s window with a hammer and the
man lifts his hands to shield his face from the shattering glass. Bertucciello rips the watch off his
wrist and they both run in separate directions, into the unknown.
Song Song and Little Mao
Dir: John Woo
This story of perseverance through incredible hardship and simple truth follows two little girls,
from different backgrounds, whose lives mirror, parallel and attract each other as they grow older.
Through a series of misfortunes, that create deep emotional and physical challenges, this film is
ultimately about hope.
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Special Screenings
William Kentridge – 9 Drawings for Projection
Set against South Africa’s shifting political climate, this series of short animated films
depicts the rise and fall of iconic anti-hero Soho Eckstein and his empire. They show Mrs.
Eckstein’s affair with Soho’s business rival Felix, Soho’s inner turmoil and much more. The
first film, Journey to the Moon, is the only film that is not part of the Eckstein series and is
the only film that features Kentridge himself.
Journey to the Moon
35mm 8min
This is a remarkable homage to the early days of filmmaking when the studio was used as a
space for exploration, and becomes the interior a rocket ship.
Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris (1989)
16mm 8.02min
Introducing Soho Eckstein, a property
developer, this film records his battle with
Felix Teitlebaum for the property of
Johannesburg.
Monument (1990)
16mm 3.11min
Soho appears as a civic Samaritan, donating
a monument to the city and big crowds
arrive from across a barren landscape to
watch its ceremonial unveiling.
Mine (1991)
16mm 5.50min
Soho, now a mine owner, excavates his
realm from his bed as the film plays with
the effects of deep-level mining.
Sobriety, Obesity and Growing
Old (1991)
16mm 8.22min
As Soho’s empire crumbles, buildings
implode, crowds march and Soho begins to
long for domestic peace.
Felix in Exile (1994)
35mm 8.43min
Although Soho and Mrs Eckstein are reunited, Felix must remain in a small cubicle of private exile
where he can hear
suggestions of home that make him desperate to return.
History of the Main Complaint
(1996)
35mm 5.50min
Soho lies guilt-stricken in a coma. While the doctor attempts to rouse him X-rays and CATscans
conjure up images of Soho’s thoughts and memories.
Weighing… and Wanting
(1997)
35mm 6.20min
In this seventh film in the Soho Eckstein series, a man in a remote landscape looks at a rock. He
is torn between the public world
of business and a private life of love.
Stereoscope (1999)
35mm 8.22min
The split-screen offers two unsynchronized realities of Soho Eckstein, suggesting his inner
turmoil and conflict.
Tide Table (2003)
35mm 8.50min
Soho Eckstein is now old, living on Muizenberg beach. He spends his time reading the
newspaper and slipping into
childhood reveries.
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Special Screenings
7pm Saturday 12th November,
Kirstenbosch Gardens.
Price R50
9 Drawings for Projection
by William Kentridge
4.30pm Sunday, 13 November
All The Invisible Children
Artscape Main Theatre
various directors
8pm Sunday 13th November,
Bonteheuwel Multipurpose Centre.
Free Screening
The Mothers’ House
by Francois Verster
Monday 14th November,
Nu Metro V&A Waterfront.
By Invitation Only
Mama Jack
by Gray Hofmeyr - Starring Leon Schuster
Awards Night - Saturday, 19 November
All The Invisible Children
Artscape Main Theatre
various directors
Feature Films - In Competition
Bal Can Can
Macedonia/Italy, Serbo-Croatian & Italian, 2005, 35mm, 86min This thrillingly dark, madcap
comedy is a road movie through the Balkans in search of a carpet; a carpet with a dead granny
rolled inside. As civil war rages in Macedonia, Trendafil (Jovanoski) decides to escape army
enlistment by skipping the country. And so, one hot day, he packs his wife Rua (Angelovska) and
her nasty mother Zumbula (Sablic) in the car, and drives for neighbouring Bulgaria. But, when
Zumbula dies of heat exhaustion, Trendafil must make a choice. Either become embroiled in a
foreign country’s bureaucracy, or wrap Granny in a carpet. When he does the latter, the carpet is
stolen. He calls Santino (Margiotta), the son of his father’s blood brother, and together they follow
the carpet’s trail through the underground crime of the Balkans. Starring: Vlado Jovanoski, Adolfo
Margiotta, Branko Djuric, Nikola Kojo, Zvezda Angelovska, Jelisaveta Sablic
Courtesy of Minerva Films
Darko Mitrevski
Director
Born in Skopje, Macedonia, Darko is a graduate of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. He has
since developed as a screenplay
writer, director, producer, journalist and theater director. Darko has worked extensively in
television and contributed to the production of more than 100 TV commercials, video-clips, music
videos, commercial video, documentaries, as well as political and cultural campaigns. He is the
recipient of numerous international awards. Darko is the founder and owner of the PARTYSANS
Production Company. Bal Can Can is Darko’s second feature film.
Sun 13 9.30pm AT
Mon 14 9pm LO1
20 Sun 20 2.30pm LO3
Buffalo Boy/Muoa Len Trau
Vietnam/France/Belgium, Vietnamese,
2004, 35mm, 102min
Set in the mystical waterscapes of 1940s French Indochina (Vietnam), this beautiful film melds
the adventurous spirit of a Western with the wild, vast beauty of the East. Every year, during the
rainy season, the low-lying Cà-Mau is flooded. During the floods, prized buffalos, vital to
riceproduction, are herded to the distant, higher ground to graze. Usually, criminally expensive
professional herders are given the task. This year, his parents dispatch 15-year old Kim (Le The
Lu) to accompany the family’s two water buffalo to safety. Kim’s quest is fraught with battles, both
internal and external. Not only does he combat the relentless elements and rogue gangster
herders, but his memory of a gentle upbringing is destroyed by his father’s devastating deathbed
revelation.
Starring: Le The Lu, Nguyen Thi Kieu
Trinh, Kra Zan Sram, Nguyen Huu Thanh,
Truong Van Be, Nguyen Anh Hoa, Nguyen
Thi Tham, Vo Hoang Nhan
Courtesy of Flach Pyramide International
Minh Nguyen-Vo
Director
Born in 1959, and brought up in a Vietnamese town near an American Air force base, Minh
Nguyen-Vo took refuge from war in a small movie theatre his parents ran. It was his window into
the world. He went on to study applied physics in France and then immigrated to the United
States where he completed his PhD at UCLA in 1984, and later switched to a cinema diploma. He
made a short film, Crimson Wings in 1999 and a travelogue, Places and Times, during location
scouting for Buffalo Boy (Mua len trau, 2004). The script for Buffalo Boy excited a lot of interest in
Los Angeles when it was first touted. He rediscovered Vietnamese film crews from 60s wartime
propaganda units and shot his debut feature in testing weather conditions, for under a million.
Awards include: Special Young Jury Prize, Locarno; Golden Unicorn Grand Prix, Amiens; New
Directors Silver Hugo award, Chicago and the Amazonas Special Jury Award, Brazil.
Mon 14 9pm AT 21
Tues 15 3pm LO4
Coldwater/ Sabah
Canada, English, 2005
35mm, 90min
Sabah should know better than to go to the public pool. She’s forty, she’s Muslim and being in a
swimming costume is no way to meet a man. Sabah, however, is about to have a whirlwind
romance. Breaking all the rules that bind women to norms, customs and religious scruples, this
liberating lark is a no-holds-barred look at Islam in the West. Between one birthday and the next,
Sabah spends her life and upsets every conceivable family relationship. A story bristling with
good humour, it’s a study of a family and the role women play in the clan as well as their
relationship to the cosmopolitan mix. And it begs the question: does cross-culture really exist or,
living side-byside, do cultures just get cross?
Starring: Arsinée Khanjian, Shawn Doyle,
Fadia Nadda, Jeff Seymour, Kathryn
Winslow, David Alpay
Courtesy of Celluloid Dreams
Ruba Nadda
Director
Prolific writer and filmmaker, Ruba Nadda, 32, has 16 films to her credit. Most are evocatively
named shorts dating back to 1997: Do Nothing, Interstate Love Story, Wet Heat Drifts Through
the Afternoon, The Wind Blows Towards Me Particularly, So Far Gone, Damascus Nights, Slut,
Laila, I Always Come to You, Blue Turning Grey Over You, Black September, I Would Suffer Cold
Hands For You, Unsettled, Aadan – and, in 2005, her feature, Sabah. Her short films are based
on her own stories for which she is widely recognised and published in some 400 international
journals. She was born in Montreal, of Arabian descent, and spent most of her young life on the
move throughout Canada, returning several times with family to Damascus. She studied English
and film at New
York’s Tisch School of the Arts. Nadda lives in Toronto now where she is working on three new
features, Cairo Time, Hayat and Champagne Room, all for Telefilm Canada.
Wed 16 6.30pm AT
Sat 19 8.30pm CMax
22 Sun 20 6pm Kismet
Delwende
Burkina Faso/Switzerland/France,
More/ French, 2005,35mm, 89min
A village is cursed, women blamed, and a daughter seeks justice in this Burkinabe agitprop
against oppressive patriarchy. When Pougbila is raped and refuses to tell her mother by whom,
her father dispatches her to an arbitrary suitor before she becomes spoiled goods. When villagers
start dying from meningitis, superstitious elders order a witch-hunt. Pougbila’s mother is branded
a
witch and banished. Problems solved. Pougbila can’t stand suffering under this toxic cloud of
deceit and male prejudice. Her journey to reclaim her mother faithfully chronicles rituals, traditions
and skewed morality masquerading as custom. But it is in
Ouagadougou’s refuges for outcast women that we witness the all-too-real destructive scourge of
man’s inhumanity to woman. And
for Pougbila, enough is already too much. It’s time to break the silence.
Starring: Blandine Yaméogo, Claire Ilboudo,
Célestin Zongo, Abdoulaye Komboudri,
Daniel Kabore
Courtesy of Funny Balloons
S Pierre Yameogo
Director
Continuing his commitment to use film as a medium to provoke change on the African continent,
this Burkinabe director presents
his sixth feature film, Delwende (Stand Up and Walk). Born 15 may, 1955, Yameogo has not
shrunk from tackling controversial subjects in films such as: Moi et Mon Blanc (Me and My White
Man, 2003) and Silmande – Tourbillon (1998) both of which won awards at the Fespaco festival
in Ouagadougou, as well as Wendemi, Lenfant du Bon Dieu (1993), Laafi – Tout Va Bien (1991)
and
Dunia (1987). Delwende was in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes this year where it
garnered the Regard Hope Award and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury –Special Mention. In this film,
Yameogo wanted to show that some people exploit customary beliefs "to lie, cheat and abuse
others for personal interest. These traditions are corrupted."
Sat 12 7pm AT
Sun 13 5.30pm LO4
Fri 18 5.30pm LO3
Duck Season / Temporada de Patos
Mexico, Spanish, 2004, 35mm, 90min
Flama (Miranda) and Moko (Cataño) are all set for a lazy Sunday without their mother in their
Mexico City home. They’ve got their playstation, porn mags and the pizza is on its way. But life is
not this easy. Ulises (Arreola), the pizza delivery boy, arrives 11 seconds later than the on-timeorit’s-free guarantee and refuses to leave before he’s paid. Then their adorable and sassy
neighbour Rita (Perea) knocks on their door. She needs to use their oven to bake her hash
cakes. Slowly each of the characters reveal themselves and their real worries come to the fore divorcing parents, burgeoning sexuality and loneliness. This is a fresh comedy with striking,
powerful dialogue and layered acting that belies it’s simple exterior.
Starring: Enrique Arreola, Diego Cataño,
Daniel Miranda, Danny Perea
Courtesy of Funny Balloons
Fernando Eimbcke
Director
Eimbcke had his ducks in a row last year and spent a lot of it picking up awards for his first
feature, at festivals around the world. He capped his Duck Season success by capturing the
coveted Grand Jury Prize from Hollywood’s American Film Institute’s Fest.
The 35-year-old Mexican writer and director studied film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios
Cinematographios. Between 1998
and 2002 he directed ten short films, including No todo es permanente, which was nominated as
a best doc short by the Mexican academy. Other films include Disculpe las molestias (1994),
Perdon (1995). In 2001 he won a competition to produce a short film, La Suerte de la fea…a la
bonita no le importa. He has also directed a number of music videos for rock/ pop bands like El
Gran Silencio, Molotov, Plastilina Mosh, Jumbo and Genitallica. His film debut is being hailed as
the next great Latin American sensation after City of God.
Mon 14 4pm AT
Fri 18 3pm LO1
24 Sat 19 10pm CN5
The Edukators
Germany/ Austria, German, 2004, 35mm,
127min
Peter and Jan know that property is theft. So they teach the rich a lesson. They break into houses
and rearrange the furniture as a
warning to wealthy capitalists that their ‘days of plenty are numbered’. The two’s best-laid plans
take a twist when Peter’s debt-ridden girlfriend, Jule, persuades Jan secretly to add her main
creditor to the hit-list. The sudden infusion of spontaneity and intimacy puts hard-felt ideals in
jeopardy and sets the screen alight with teasing allusions to Bader Meinhof and Crime-andPunishment style happenstance. The genius is in the unforeseen moment. The story unravels as
a cat-and-mouse game of suspense and betrayal that examines not only youthful revenge against
Capitalism but also the deceitful games people play between themselves – for love – for power.
Who’s zooming who?
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe
Erceg, Burghart Klaußner
Courtesy of Celluloid Dreams
Hans Weingartner
Director
Born on October 2nd 1971 in Feldkirch, Austria, Weingartner came to the fore as a filmmaker with
his debut feature Das Weisse Rauschen, 2001 which earned him a First Steps and Max Ophuls
award in 2001 and then the high-profile German Film Critics award in 2003. After studying
Physics, he earned a diploma as a camera assistant from the Austrian Association of
Cinematography and went on to study Neurosciences at the University of Vienna and the
Neurosurgery Dept. of the Steglitz Clinic in Berlin. In 1997 he began postgraduate studies at the
Academy of Media Arts KHM in Cologne. His other short films include: J-Cam (1993), Der
Dreifachstecker (1995), Split Brain (1997), and Frank (1999). The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre
sind vorbei) (2004) has roused European audiences and earned critical attention by winning the
German Film Award 2005 for Best Film (Silver).
Tue 15 9pm AT 25
Wed 16 3pm LO4
Sat 19 4.15pm LO3
Le Grand Voyage
France/Morocco, French / Arabic / English /
Italian / Turkish, 2004, 35mm, 108min
In this sensitive road movie with gentle brushes of humour, a father and son begin to bridge the
generation divide. When Mustapha (Majid) decides to travel to Mecca, his son Réda (Cazale)
begrudgingly agrees to take time off High School to drive him there. Réda, a nonreligious
Moroccan, thinks his father should fly to Mecca. But Mustapha’s answer is that the trip should be
as arduous as possible. And so they embark in an ancient jalopy to drive through seven countries
with barely enough money to buy petrol. At first it seems as if they truly have nothing in common
– and their differences are defined by more than just age. But as they drive through different
countries and meet a host of varying characters, they begin to see each other in an entirely new
light.
Starring: Nicolas Cazale, Mohamed Majid,
Jacky Nerccessian
Courtesy of Flach Pyramide International
Ismael Ferroukhi
Director
Born in 1962 in Keintra, Morocco, Ismael Ferroukhi grew up most of his life in a small town in the
south of France. His first short film, L’Expose, won the Kodak Short Film Award at Cannes in
1993 and several other awards. He wrote the screenplay for Cedric Kahn’s feature film Trop de
Bonheur/ Happy, Too Happy (1994) and a TV film Culpabilite Zero/ Zero Guilt (1996). He wrote
and directed a short, L’Inconnu (1995) with Catherine Deneuve, which was part of the triptych
Court-Toujours, for Canal Plus/ Arte.
He then went on to direct two films for television, Un Ete Aux Hirondelles (1997) and Petit Ben
(1998). Le Grand Voyage is his first feature film. It won the Luigi De Laurentiis Award in Venice
and a Best Film nomination at the Mar del Plata festival.
Mon 14 6.30pm AT
Sat 19 8pm CN5
26 Sun 20 12.15pm CN5
The Hero/ O Heroi
Angola/Portugal/France, Portuguese,
2004, 35mm, 97min
After a 28-year war, the citizens in the capital of Angola are desperately trying to rebuild their
lives. In this captivating character-driven story of hope, four lives become inextricably linked. After
stepping on a land mine, Vitório (Oumar Makéna Diop) is demobbed. Despite his lack of
prospects, he is eager to build a new future. But one night, his prosthetic leg is stolen. His
desperate search leads him to the door of Judite(Maria Ceiça), a prostitute. Manu (Milton Coelho
[Santo]) is a bright schoolboy who obsesses about the return of his father. When Vitório rescues
Manu from the antagonism of a local gang member, Manu believes that the war hero is his father.
Manu’s teacher, Joana(Patrícia Bull) uses her connections to launch a campaign that gives
Vitório back his prosthesis, and his dignity.
Starring: Oumar Makéna Diop, Milton
Coelho (Santo), Patrícia Bull, Neusa Borges,
Maria Ceiça, Raúl Rosário
Courtesy of F-For-Film
Zeze Gamboa
Director
Documentary filmmakers who chronicled Angola’s crushing civil war are midwives to a new era in
filmmaking. The Angola Film Institute, for decades in ruins, was revived last year and produced a
flush of features. Luandan-born 49-year-old director, Zeze
Gamboa, is at the forefront of this development. His first feature, Hero, won the Grand Prize in
the World Dramatic Competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival and the Audience prize at
the Three Continents Festival in Nantes. Gamboa was a cameraman for Angolan Television from
1974 to 1980. He made several documentaries: Mopiopio, sopro de Angola (1991); Dissidencia
(1998); Burned by Blue (1999); and O Desassossego de Pessoa (1999) Bringing Hero to the
screen is the accomplishment of more than 12 years of struggle since the story’s genesis, when
Gamboa saw a wounded veteran on Luanda’s streets. He considers filmmaking a direct
contribution to the national reconstruction effort.
Thu 17 9pm AT
Fri 18 5.15pm LO4
Sun 20 4.30pm LO3
Private
Italy, Arabic/English/Hebrew, 2004, 35mm,
90min
This gripping film lives through a stubborn Palestinian family’s initial agony when they must share
their house with Israeli soldiers.
Mohammad (Bakri) is a stern teacher who lives in a rural area of Palestine with his young wife
Samiah (Omari) and their five children. Mohammad’s refusal to leave the Israeli-occupied zone is
tested when a group of soldiers burst into their home and set up an observation post. The family
live in the ground floor of the house, while the soldiers, led by Ofer (Miller), occupy the upper floor
and forbid anyone to enter. Tension in the family and house grows, and the family indulges in
small acts of passive rebellion. Jamal (Alsaying) rebuilds the greenhouse that the soldiers destroy
every night, while Mariam (Ayoub) hides in the upstairs cupboard and sees the occupiers as
people, not soldiers.
Starring: Mohammad Bakri, Lior Miller,
Areen Omari, Tomer Russo, Hend Ayoub,
Karem Emad Hassan Aly, Marco Alsaying,
Sarah Hamzeh, Amir Hasayen, Niv Shafir,
Sahar Lachmy
Courtesy of the Italian Ministy of Culture
Saverio Costanzo
Director
Saverio COSTANZO (1975, Rome) studied communication sociology at the Roman La Sapienza
University, and then worked as a
radio presenter. In 1997 he made two antidrugs ads for Benetton and scripted short films Numero
and Una Famiglia per caso. In
1999 he made the documentary Caffe Mille Luci, Brooklyn, New York from the viewpoint of the
Italian American community who
frequented the eponymous café. Sala Rossa (2001), a six-part docu-drama that takes place in an
ER, won a prize at the Torino
festival. During a trip to Israel he came across a news item about a family literally split between
Israel and Palestine. He spent six
months writing the script with Sayed Qushua. The director describes it as a docufilm in which the
camera stays "at the heart of the action". Costanzo says it’s about "what happens to a family
when the news cameras have gone…" Private won a Golden Leopard at the Locarno film festival.
Wed 16 9pm AT
Thur 17 3pm LO1
28
Season of the Horse/Ji Feng Zhang De Ma
Depicting the destructive effects of modernisation on an ancient nomadic lifestyle and proud
cultural identity, this is a beautiful, yet unsentimental, requiem for a lost way of life. Living on the
vast Mongolian steppes, a stubborn shepherd, Wurgen (Cai), refuses
to forsake his way of life, even when it is threatened by drought and the encroaching barbed wire
of civilisation. A descendent
of the proud Mongol horsemen, he is unable to keep enough sheep to support his wife, child and
trusted old horse, but is
unwilling to move to the city. As his options dwindle, Wurgen is pressured to change his ways.
Even his wife tries to force him to find a way of paying for their child’s schooling, but he would
rather die than sell-out his traditions. Unfortunately, Wurgen’s fate is no
longer in his hands.
Starring: Ning Cai,
Na Renhua
China, Mongolian, 2004, 35mm, 105min
Ning Cai
Director
China’s best-known actor from Mongolia (where he was born in Horqin-district 1963) Ning Cai
graduated from the Shanghai Drama Academy - China's top acting school - in 1986, and
achieved recognition in a stage production called Black Stallion. He's acted in 40 different roles
on stage, screen and television, and won the mainland's top film prize, the Golden Rooster, for
Grasslands. He
received the Plum Blossom Award, China's top theatre prize. More interested in the fate of his
homeland than his material success, he went back to the Beijing Film Academy to learn directing.
He graduated 1998. He aims to use this skill to regenerate Inner Mongolia's film industry. He has
since taken charge of Inner Mongolia's official film studio, where he hopes to make more socially
conscious films along the lines of Season. "My main hope for this film is that the government will
see it and understand the problems of the horsemen on the grasslands," he says.
Sat 12 9.30pm AT
Mon 14 8.15pm CN6
Sun 20 12.30pm AT
Feature Films - In Competition
The Sleeping Child/L’Enfant Endormi
Morocco/Belgium, Arabic, 2005, 35mm,
95min,
Set in the magnificent, unforgiving Moroccan countryside, this gentle reflection on the life of rural
women explores the devastating
reality of the labour drain to Europe. At a wedding, the joyous celebration is overshadowed by the
tense contemplation of economic reality. The next day, the groom departs for Spain with the other
young men of the area. His new wife, Zeinab is left behind with his stubborn mother, his sage,
blind grandmother and his wilful sister-inlaw to tend to the farm. Although the women sustain
each other, their only contact to their men is a series of awkward, apologetic videos. When
Zeinab discovers she is pregnant, and with little word and no return date from her husband, the
family demands that she makes the foetus ‘sleep’ until he comes home.
Starring: Mounia Osfour, Rachida Brakni
Yasmine Kassari
Director
Yasmine Kassari was born in Morocco in 1972. She studied cinema at the INSAS in Brussels
where she graduated in 1997. In the same year she wrote a screenplay for the feature film, The
Sleeping Child, which won the Trophee du 1er Scenario Jeunes Talents CNC/Paris award in
2003. Before her directing debut with this film, she made three shorts: Chiens errants (1995),
Quand les homes pleurent (2000) and Lynda et Nadia (2002).
Sun 13 7pm AT
Thur 17 2.45pm CN6
30 Sun 20 8.30pm Kismet
Tsotsi
South Africa/UK, English, 2005, 35mm,
94min
Tsotsi is a dynamic, unflinching portrayal of Athol Fugard’s novel set in a modern sometimes
violent Johannesburg. Fearing nothing, Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) is a ruthless gang leader
in a shantytown. An AIDS orphan, Tsotsi raised himself and doesn’t owe anybody anything.
Indifferent to the path of destruction that he reeks, he takes whatever he wants, doling out
violence on the way. When he has a violent argument with a member of his own gang, he makes
his escape by brutally hi-jacking a car. But in the car is an infant. Saddled with this innocent,
Tsotsi begins to rediscover his humanity and becomes aware of the emptiness of his
selfprescribed destiny. Conveying raw emotional power from beginning to end, Tsotsi’s taut
performances and compelling visuals carry the protagonist’s journey from indiscriminate crime to
tentative redemption.
Cast: Kenneth Nkosi, Presley Chweneyagae,
Ian Roberts, Israel Makoe, Percy Matsemela,
Jery Mofokeng, Zola
Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor
Gavin Hood
Director
When Tsotsi took the People’s Choice Award at Toronto 2005, the Britishborn South African
director affirmed his choice to abandon law and pursue theatre and film as a career. He turned to
UCLA to study screenwriting and directing. His first job was writing educational dramas for the
department of Health in South Africa. A short film, The Storekeeper (1998) gave the filmmaker his
initial impetus. It took awards in Chicago, Algarve and Melbourne Festivals. A Reasonable Man
(1999) consolidated this bristling start when Hood again stole the limelight at the All African Film
Awards, taking top spot in all main categories for film, screenwriting and his leading performance.
He followed up in 2001 with a Polishlanguage film, W pustyni w puszczy / In Desert and
Wilderness, which became Poland’s highest grossing film that year. Variety named him one of the
Ten Directors to Watch at Sundance 2000. His third film, Tsotsi, is his adaptation of Athol
Fugard’s existential thriller novella.
Fri 11 8.30pm OperaHouse
Sat 12 5.15pm FAWU
Sat 19 7pm LO1
Wah-Wah
UK/France/South Africa, English, 2005,
35mm, 97min
Delightfully rich and keenly observed, this semi-autobiographical directorial debut from Richard E.
Grant is set in 1969 Swaziland, during the last gasp of the British Empire. Ralph Compton is on
the cusp of manhood when betrayal and recriminations rip his
family apart. His mother has an affair with his father’s best friend. When she leaves, his father
takes to drink and Ralph is dispatched to boarding school. On his return, his bitter father has
married Ruby, a brash, unconventional American airhostess.
Ralph warms to Ruby’s irreverence, and despite the orchestrated return of his mother throws
himself back into the community. As Ralph navigates a new social order and his wakening
sexuality, he escapes into theatre, specifically a rendition of Camelot that is to be presented to
Royalty attending Swaziland’s independence celebrations.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Miranda
Richardson, Nicholas Hoult, Emily Watson,
Julie Walters, Celia Imrie
Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor
Richard E. Grant
Director
Best known as an actor who specialises in playing eccentric toffs, Grant is in fact a Swazi kid who
attended Waterford boarding
school and studied drama at the University of Cape Town where he founded the multiracial
ensemble, Troupe Theatre Company.
He left for England at 24 to seek his fortune and after a tough initiation edged ahead with a Most
Promising Newcomer award at
the Lyric, had his first TV role in awardwinning Honest, Decent and True, and then landed a role
in the cult runaway success,
Withnail and I – probably the movie that unleashed his prolific career on stage and screen both
sides of the Atlantic. Recently
he played in Scorsese’s Age of Innocence, Robert Altman’s Gosford Park and returned to South
Africa as Bonaparte in Story of an
African Farm. Grant is teetotal, averse to tea, coffee and dairy and refuses cigarettes that gave
his father lung cancer.
Wah Wah is his writing and directorial
debut.
Thu 17 6.30pm AT
Fri 18 5.30pm LO1
Sun 20 8pm LO4
Zulu Love Letter
South Africa/France, English/Zulu, 2004,
35mm, 100min
A keen and insightful psychological drama, Zulu Love Letter presents the desperate and
emotional journey of two mothers searching for their daughters. Tormented by the haunting
images and unrelenting grief of the past, single mother and journalist, Thandi has difficulty
communicating with her estranged daughter, Mangi. Thirteen-year old Mangi is deaf and dumb
due to the beating that the pregnant Thandi received at the same time that her friends, Mike and
Dineo, were murdered by an Apartheid hit squad. Mike nad Dineo’s fate pursues her, especially
when Dineo’s mother appears requesting that Thandi testify before the Truth and Reconciliation
commission. This emotional engrossing, yet refreshing, visual gift explores the final agony of
healing from the intimate perspective of women and mothers.
Starring: Pamela Nomvete, Mpumi
Malatsi, Sophie Mgelna, Kurt Egelhof,
Connie Mfuku
Courtesy of Ster Kinekor
Ramadan Suleman
Director
Zulu Love Letter is the second feature film from Ramadan Suleman. In 1981, Ramadan Suleman
graduated from the Center of Research and Training in African Theatre. As well as directing
several plays, he helped to find South Africa’s first black theatre, the Dhlomo Theatre. He
attended the first Direct Workshop in Johannesburg and studied in Paris. Since then, he has
directed two documentaries Sekouba (1984) and Ezikhumbeni (1985). In 1988, he graduated
from the London International Film School and directed Raging Walls, followed by The Devil’s
Children (1989). Fools (1997) was his first feature film.
Tue 15 6.30pm AT
Thur 17 3pm LO3
Sat 19 3.30pm FAWU
Sun 20 3.30pm ZH
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A Disparate World
2046
Hong Kong, Cantonese/Japanese/Mardarin,
2004, 35mm, 90min
Dir: Wong Kar–Wai
This visually seductive, minutely crafted film flits between the reality of love in 1960s Hong Kong
and fantastic love in a cyber future.
Leaving behind a life of gambling in Singapore, Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) arrives in Hong
Kong and rents a room in a shabby hotel. There his literary meditations encompass memory and
regret, love and timing. He is writing a futuristic story based on the room next door, number 2046.
He focuses his attention on seducing the exquisite women who, one by one, live 2046 and uses
them as the source material for his book. By juxtaposing the delicate beauty of the characters and
glamorous costumes, sets,
and textures with the emotional emptiness of the womanising Chow, the filmmaker has created a
spectacular feast for the eyes and
the mind.
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong,
Gong Li, Takuya Kimura, Zhang Ziyi, Carina
Lau, Chang Chen, Maggie Cheung
Courtesy of Fortissimo
Sat 12 5pm CN4
Sat 19 10.30pm CN4
34 Sun 20 8.15pm LO1
3 Iron / Bin-jip
South Korea / Japan, Korean, 2004, 35mm,
88min
Dir: Kim Ki-Duk
Golfers – be warned: this is not Caddyshack – more like a cinematographer’s way of indulging
you in eccentric storytelling deluxe. A playful piece about a bloke who breaks into houses and out
of sheer gratitude does some DIY, this story starts really heating up when our Mr Fixit sets up
home, unbeknownst to him, with a beautiful model in an abusive relationship. She’s able to spy
on him until they finally meet faceto-face, hubby returns and they disappear into the Great
Indoors. Shot in just 16 days on the slenderest of script notions, this film only goes to prove that
entertaining cinema is a witty craft. And the joke is that our hero, silent to the last, is just as
invisible as we are, the audience looking in.
Starring: Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee,
Hyuk-ho Kwon, Jin-mo Ju, Jeong-ho Choi
Courtesy of Cineclick Asia
Sun 13 8pm LO3
Thur 17 9pm LO4
Sat 19 12noon LO1
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Amu
India / USA, Bengali / English / Hindi /
Punjabi, 2005, 35mm, 102min
Dir. Shonali Bose
A burning desire to return to roots offers some startling revelations about the past for Kaju, a 21
year-old woman who travels from the USA to Delhi. She meets Kabir who counsels her not to
open old wounds. But Kaju’s persistence uncovers ugly facts about her adoption at the age of
three. A moment in India’s dark history - when thousands of Sikhs were slain during the1984 riots
– unlocks the truth about her birth parents. In times when would-be parents in the western world
consider it their God-given right to adopt children from countries undergoing conflict and systemic
poverty, this film gives pause for thought about the blind use of power and its impact on the poor
of this world. Does individual love do enough to heal the rifts?
Starring: Konkona Sen Sharma, Yashpal Sharma, Brinda Karat
Sat 12 12.15pm CN5
Tue 15 8pm LO3
Sun 20 12noon CMax
Bluebird
The Netherlands, Dutch, 2004, Video, 80min
Dir: Mijke de Jong
This heartbreaking and outstanding film explores the agonies of a teenager who strives for
acceptance despite being bullied. Merel(Rotteveel) is a kind-hearted, clever, busy, tomboyish
twelve-year-old girl. Supported by a loving family she enthusiastically embraces every part of her
life, whether it is high-board diving, learning the lines for Turandot, reading or entertaining Casper
(Scholten), her disabled brother. But Merel’s capability is her undoing and when she is bullied by
a trendy group of classmates, no-one notices her pain and confusion. The escalating taunts and
feelings of inadequacy is further compounded when Casper is dispatched to a specialist school. If
it were not for the sympathetic stranger on the train, Merel’s life might spin out of control.
Starring: Elske Rotteveel, Kees Scholten,
Elsie de Brauw, Jaap Spijkers
Courtesy of Holland Film
Fri 18 8.15pm LO1
Broken Flowers
USA/France, English, 2005, 35mm,
106min
Dir: Jim Jarmusch
The resolutely single Don has just been dumped by his latest lover, Sherry. Don yet again resigns
himself to being alone and left to his own devices. Instead, he is compelled to reflect on his past
when he receives by mail a mysterious pink letter. It is from an anonymous former lover and
informs him that he has a 19-year-old son who may now be looking for his father. Don is urged to
investigate this "mystery" by his closest friend and neighbor, Winston, an amateur sleuth and
family man. Hesitant to travel at all, Don nonetheless embarks on a cross-country trek in search
of clues from four former flames. Unannounced visits to each of these unique women hold new
surprises for Don as he haphazardly confronts both his past and, consequently, his present.
Starring: Bill Murray, Julie Delpy, Heather
Simms
Courtesy of Ster Kinekor
Sat 12 10.15pm CN6
Fri 18 7.30pm CN4
Sun 20 8pm CN5
Bullet Boy
UK, English, 2004, 35mm, 89min
Dir: Saul Dibb
Released from a young offender’s unit, eighteen-year-old Ricky returns to his home and
neighbourhood determined to go straight and live a normal life, with a normal girlfriend. But fate
has other ideas. On the mean streets of Hackney, normal means honour defended with violence
– and a minor confrontation between his reckless friend Wisdom (Leon Black) and two volatile
rival kids escalates into a cycle of senseless violence. Aware of the disastrous path they are
traveling, Ricky intervenes but is unable to diffuse the situation. Then Ricky’s curious but
impressionable twelve-year-old brother, Curtis, inadvertently takes the violence to a
whole new level. This story of two brothers is an uncompromising, yet sensitively restrained
approach to the consequences of introducing guns into a family environment.
Starring: Leon Black, Chris Callender, Louise Delamere, Luke Fraser, Des Hamilton, Ashley
Walters
Courtesy of Portman Film
Sat 12 11.45am CN4
Wed 16 7.45pm LO4
Thur 17 4.30pm FAWU
Sat 19 4.45pm LO4
Sat 19 5.30pm ZH
A Child’s Love Story /
Un Amour d’enfant
Senegal, French, 2004, 35mm, 96min
Dir: Ben Diogaye Beye
This is a touching investigation of innocent love between children in Senegal set against the
background strikes and a traditional class system. Despite the difference in their background and
family-lives, five young children are friends. Omar is in love with Yacine, a pretty, intelligent girl
from a wealthy family. He writes her a love letter, but it only causes misunderstanding and a rift
between the two. Meanwhile, Demba falls in love with a beggar and they share secret long looks
and tender touches in their brief
meeting time. All the children seek advice from their mentor, who sells bicycle-rides on the
beachfront. As Senegal begins to deteriorate under economic upheaval, their mentor starts
striking and when Yacine’s father loses his job, he is force to take a transfer to a distant island.
Starring: Anta Sylla, Mafall Thioune, Sega
Beye, Habib Diarra
Sun 13 5.30pm CN6 37
Sat 19 11.45pm CN4
Clean
Canada/France/UK, English, 2004, 35mm,
113min
Dir: Olivier Assayas
Over-the-hill '80s rock star Lee Hauser (James Johnston) dies of a heroin overdose in a cheap
hotel room. Although not with him at the time, Lee’s companion and the mother of his child, Emily
(Maggie Cheung) is charged with heroin possession. On her release, she discovers that Lee’s
parents, Albrecht (Nick Nolte) and Rosemary (Martha Henry) have legal custody of her son, Jay.
Slowly, through the fug of drugs and self-obsession, Emily realises that cleaning up is her only
chance at regular access to Jay. Facing up to her inner demons, she travels back to Paris to start
afresh – a difficult task given that she is almost universally distrusted. This complex but
fascinating story is set within the unforgiving music business and allows for a great sound track
and a cameo appearance by Tricky.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Maggie Cheung, Beatrice
Dalle, James Johnston
Awards: Maggie Cheung (best actress Cannes Film Festival)
Courtesy of The Works
Sat 12 2.30pm CN5
Sun 20 2pm LO4
Come into the Light / Alla Luce del Sole
Italy, Italian, 2004, 35mm, 125min
Dir: Roberto Faenza
Set in 1993, this true political drama exposes the tenacious grip the old-style mafia still has on the
neighbourhood of Palermo. Growing up in the land of the Mafia means being taught to be ruthless
and bloodthirsty, feeding cats to ravenous dogs and cheering alongside adults at clandestine
dogfights. Returning to this world of wanton cruelty is the new parish priest Don Pino Puglisi
(Zingaretti). He was born in the Brancaccio quarter and his knowledge of the area’s social
circumstances helps him to relate to
the local kids. He soon starts a youth centre for the children and teenagers in the area, earning
him an adoring following. When Palermo’s well-known mafia investigators are murdered, Don
Pino becomes incensed and starts to condemn the mob in his sermons.
Starring: Luca Zingaretti, Alessia Goria,
Corrado Fortuna
Courtesy of the Italian Ministry of Culture
Thur 17 8.15pm CN6
Fri 18 10.45pm LO1
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The Constant Gardener
UK/Germany, English/Swahili/German,
2005, 35mm, 128min
Dir: Fernando Meirelles
This topical film seethes with outrage over the treatment of poverty-stricken Africans. At once a
love story, political mystery and drama, the film is beautifully directed by the award-winning
director of City of God. Justin Quayle (Fiennes), a quiet, conservative diplomat, is called to the
morgue to identify the brutalised body of his wife Tessa (Weisz) who was a confrontational
activist. Looking at her cold body, he senses that he never really knew her and he embarks on a
quest to discover how she died. His investigations reveal startling links between Tessa’s death, a
pharmaceutical company and several highranking politicians. Justin retraces her steps to Kenya,
where Tessa discovered that large Western drug companies were using locals as guinea pigs.
The more he uncovers, the further in love he falls with the real Tessa.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny
Huston, Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite,
Richard McCabe, Donald Sumpter, Hubert
Kounde, Archie Panjabi, Gerard McSorley,
Samuel Otage, Anneke Kim Sarnau
Courtesy of Ster Kinekor
Fri 18 9pm AT
Sat 19 7.15pm LO4
Sun 20 5pm CN4
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Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon
SA, French/Swahili/Zulu/English, 2005,
35mm, 80min, Dir: Khalo Matabane
Kenilwe is a struggling writer who one glorious Sunday afternoon meets Fatima. He becomes
intrigued by Fatima’s stories of war and exile and begins to meet her regularly. But one day
Fatima doesn’t show up, and Kenilwe feels compelled to venture into Johannesburg’s underbelly
to find her. During his search, he meets and talks to a disparate range of characters that have
lived through the hell of war and have traveled vast distances to forge a bright future. With this
intimate, politically subtle and intelligent film, Matabane introduces a fascinating genre to South
African film. The film’s artful blend of documentary and drama produces an absorbing insight into
the reality of displacement for many of the new citizens attracted to the new South Africa.
Starring: Tony Kgoroge, Fatima Hersi, Tumisho Masha
Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor
Thur 17 5.30pm CN6
Sat 19 2.15pm CN4
Sun 20 1pm ZH
Dot the I
UK/Spain/USA, English, 2005, 35mm, 92min
Dir: Matthew Parkhill
This is a sexy, romantic thriller in which a London-based, international love triangle pits reality
against fantasy. A flamenco dancer, Carmen (Verbeke) escapes an abusive relationship in Spain
and settles in England. While there, she starts dating Barnaby (D’Arcy), a well-intentioned,
reliable but essentially dull Brit who proposes to her after 6 months of relationship. On her hennight she passionately kisses a stranger. The lucky man is Kit (Bernal), an out-of-work Brazilian
actor. Fuelled with desire, he becomes
obsessed with Carmen and stalks her, photographing her every move. Carmen goes through with
the wedding, but her husband’s priggish attitude sends her into Kit’s bed. Her husband’s
subsequent reaction peels back the layers to reveal deceit, revenge and remorse. Watch for the
twist at the end of the film, where nothing is as it seems.
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalia Verbeke, James D’Arcy, Tom Hardy, Charlie Cox
Courtesy of Videovision
Sat 12 12noon LO1
Wed 16 6.00pm LO4
Sat 19 2pm LO3
Factotum
USA/Norway, English, 2005, 35mm, 94min
Dir: Bent Hamer
In true Indie style, Factotum concisely catalogues the down and out observations, and hit and
miss love-life of a permanently sizzled writer Hank Chinaski(Matt Dillon). Loosely based on street
poet, Charles Bukowski, Hank is a perceptive, humorously irreverent man who yearns for literary
recognition. But he is ultimately dedicated to self-destruction through liquor, women, and
gambling. He holds down mindless jobs long enough to fund his primary interests and write. But
mostly he meanders from dive bar to racecourse to labour exchange to dive bar, spending time
with Jan (Lili Taylor) and Laura (Marisa Tomei)’s and encountering
fascinating, equally desperate peoples he meets on the way. Told against an industrial, rundown
background, Factotum is a gritty, darkly humorous journey from love and life in the dysfunctional
edge of society.
Starring: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei,Fisher Stevens
Courtesy of Norwegian Film Institute
Sun 13 5pm CN4
Sat 19 10.30pm CN6
Sun 20 40 3.30pm AT
Faith’s Corner
SA, English, 2005, 35mm, 90min
Dir: Darrell Roodt
Faith and her two young sons, Siyabonga and Lucky sleep in an abandoned BMW. Each day
they store their worldly possessions with ‘Auntie’ and hustle in time for rush hour, taking up their
positions at the lights on one of Johannesburg’s busiest intersections.
Their rough life is balanced on the edge of a tough and dangerous world where desperate
neighbours need avoiding and kindness is sparse. Aware that her children deserve more than the
fear and hunger she provides, in South African society Faith has no voice and few choices. And
every day that she begs indifferent strangers with as much dignity as she can muster, she inches
closer to loosing the little that she still has. This is a stylistically courageous and poignant film
from South Africa’s awardwinning team.
Starring: Leleti Khumalo
Courtesy of Videovision
Sat 12 8pm CN5
Sun 13 3pm FAWU
Thurs 17 8pm CN5
Four for None / O Diabo a Quatro
Brazil/France/Portugal, Portuguese, 2004,
35mm, 105min, Dir: Alice de Andrade
Set against the picture-card backdrop of Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, this lighthearted,
fresh social comedy that highlights
social hypocrisy and social abuse with gentle irony. While shy, 17-year-old Rita baby-sits the child
of a wealthy woman, she fantasising about and watches the grungy surfer, Paulo. Paulo spends
his time smoking marijuana, surfing, and messing around with the local prostitutes. When Rita
becomes jealous of the attention Paulo pays the hookers, she signs up with Tim, a tough pimp,
and takes the working name, Mystery. Her naïve, gentle personality and gorgeous body not only
make her the most popular
prostitute in the area, but she also captures the hearts of Tim, Paulo and Waldick, the street child.
The three’s destinies become hopelessly entwined as they vie for her attention.
Starring: Marcelo Farias, Johnathan
Haagensen, Ney Latorraca, Evandro Mesquita,
Ana Beatriz Noguei, Marília Gabriela, Maria
Flor, Márcio Libar
Courtesy of Grupo Novo de Cinema eTV
Sat 12 5.30pm LO3
Sun 13 8pm CN5
Thur 17 7.45pm LO3
Frozen Land
Finland, Finnish, 2005, 35mm, 130min
Dir: Aku Louhimies
This furious, fast-paced, probing film examines the reality of Finland through the perceptions of
seven people connected through a forged 500 Euro note. A computer hacker and ex-model,
Tuomas (Leppilampi) is determined to achieve something useful and socially constructive.
Tuomas is dating history student Elina (Tola) who is an intelligent activist and comes from a
wealthy background. When Elina becomes pregnant, they plan on getting married. In contrast,
Tuomas’ best friend Niko (Pääkkönen) leads a hedonistic life of alcohol and drugs. After Niko
forges the 500 euro note, it makes its way to Isto (Kouki). When Isto tries to use the note, he is
arrested and this sets in motion a chain of events where each subsequent story is interwoven
with the fates of Tuoamas, Elina and Niko.
Starring: Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko
Leppilampi, Pamela Tola, Petteri Summanen,
Matleena Kuusniemi, Mikko Kouki, Sulevi
Peltola, Pertti Sveholm, Samuli Edelmann,
Saara Pakkasvirta, Pekka Valkeejärvi,
Susanna Anteroinen, Niklas Hellakoski,
Emilia Suoperä, Jonathan Kajander
Courtesy of the Finnish Film Institute
Sat 12 8pm LO3
Sun 13 2pm LO3
Sun 20 11.45am CN4
Gettin’ Square
Australia/UK, English, 2003, 35mm, 100min
Dir: Jonathan Teplitsky
An authentic, offbeat crime caper set on the Gold Coast of Australia. Barry Wirth is an ex-con
who, after eight years in prison, is
determined to stay on the right side of the law. Johnny "Spit" Spitieri is a zany, lovable drug addict
who knew Barry in prison. They
both get paroled by the same officer and plan to play it straight this time. Barry has learned to
cook in prison, which leads them
to find jobs at the deserted Texan Rose, a steakhouse owned by another English excon also
trying to go straight. The three team up against the local gang boss, but things get complicated
when Darren's shifty accountant finds himself the interest of the Criminal Investigation
Commission. They will all learn how hard it is to ‘get square’ after time in prison.
Starring: Sam Worthington, David Wenham,
Timothy Spall
Fri 18 8pm CN5
Good Night, And Good Luck
USA, English, 2005, 35mm, 90min
Dir: George Clooney
"Good Night, and Good Luck" takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950’s
America. It chronicles the real-life
conflict between television news man Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the
House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the
public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba
in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and
scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist ‘witchhunts.’ A very public
feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this
climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on regardless and their tenacity eventually pays
off when McCarthy is brought before the Senate and made powerless as his lies and bullying
tactics are finally uncovered.
Starring: George Clooney, Jeff Daniels,
Robert Downey Jr, Patricia Clarkson, Frank
Langella, Tate Donovan, David Strathairn
Courtesy of Videovision
Sat 12 5.15pm CN5
Wed 16 8.15pm CN4
Sun 20 5.15pm CN5
The Governor’s New Clothes / Les Habits Neuf de Gouverneur
DRC/France/Belgium, French, 2004, 35mm,
87min, Dir: Mweze Ngangura
Ingeniously blending humour and drama in a musical, this film gives Hans Christian Andersen’s
The Emperor’s New Clothes an
inspired, African twist. Féli (Wazekwa) is an underling in a massive multi-national company in
Africa. Unexpectedly, he is made governor of the mining province, Zerbo. This province is at war
with its neighbours, the Krowas. But his wife Mopaya (Misamu) is Krowa, and must remain hidden
within the new palace. With his eye on Féli’s job, the head of security uses a local beauty queen
to gain Féli’s confidence. And Féli’s other enemies disguise themselves as dressmakers. When
they offer the Governor a beautiful
ceremonial garment made from magical material, they challenge both his vanity and his power.
Starring: Reddy Amisi, Adolphe Dominguez,
Emeneya Keser, Simara Lutumba, Marie
Misamu, Bébé Tschanda, Félix Wazekwa,
Papa Wemba
Sun 13 5.30pm LO1 43
Tue 15 3pm LO3
Sat 19 3pm CMax
Hari Om
India, English/ French/Hindi, 2004, 35mm,
107min
Dir: Ganapathy Bharat
This unexpectedly beguiling, gently amusing tale weaves a story of self-discovery through beauty,
love, courage and understanding set against the rich tapestry of Indian culture, architecture, and
landscapes. Arrogant Benoit (Jean Marie Lamour) is a gem dealer taking a luxury train journey
across India. Bored by his lack of attention, his girlfriend, Isa (Camille Natta), misses the train in
Jaipur. Isa enlists Hari Om (Vijay Raaz), a taxi driver, to catch the train at the next station.
Normally happy-go-lucky, Hari Om is currently feeling heat from the rickshaw mafia and is very
pleased to oblige. And so begins a romantic road trip across the relatively unknown Rajasthan
desert, pausing on the way to journey with nomadic tribes, shower in abandoned palaces, and
have magic woven by an ancient guru, as they try to catch that illusive train while keeping ahead
of the vengeful gangsters.
Starring: Jean-Marie Lamour, Camille Natta,
Vijay Raaz
Sun 13 12noon LO4
Wed 16 5.30pm LO3
A History of Violence
Canada, English, 2005, 35mm, 96min
Dir: David Cronenberg
With controlled Croneneberg panache, this impressive, taut and powerful film analyses the
question of what evil lurks in the hearts
of ordinary men. Tom Stall (Mortensen) is a quiet, easygoing small town man who loves his wife
(Bello) and children and runs a friendly diner. One day, two roving, psychotic criminals enter his
restaurant prepared to wreak violent havoc. Stall’s heroic and professional dispatch of the
malevolent criminals draws unexpected media coverage, which results in a visit from the
menacing Foggerty (Harris) – who claims that Tom is in fact Joey Cusack, a hood in hiding and
brother of a Philly mob-boss (Hurt). Although Tom vehemently denies this, his children and wife
are threatened when Foggerty insists that Joey must repay his debt.
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello,
William Hurt, Ed Harris, Stephen McHattie,
Peter MacNeill
Courtesy of Nu Metro
Mon 14 5.45pm LO3
Thur 17 5.15pm CN5
Sun 20 6.30pm AT
Hawaii, Oslo
Norway, Norwegian, 2004, 35mm
125min
Dir: Erik Poppe
This gently beautiful, intricately intimate film weaves together five powerful stories of love, loss,
hope and destiny. Vidar (Seim) is an attendant at the local hospital. He has tragically prophetic
dreams one of which involves Leon (Roise), Vidar’s favourite patient.
Meanwhile, Leon is celebrating his birthday by meeting his childhood sweetheart, Asa (Rosten).
But first, his brother Trygve (Hennie), who has been given a few hours leave from prison for the
occasion, takes him for a ride. Separately, Frode and Milla’s unbridled joy at the birth of their son
turns to despair when he is diagnosed with a heart defect and ambulance driver Viggo
(Skjaerstad) falls in love with Bobbie (Barker), whose life he has saved twice already. These
characters, and others, come together on the hottest day of the summer as Vidar desperately
tries to change Leon’s destiny.
Starring: Trond Espen Seim, Jan Gunnar Roise
(Leon), Evy Kasseth Rosten (Åsa), Aksel Hennie
(Trygve), Petronelle Barker (Bobbie), Robert
Skjaerstad (Viggo), Benjamin Lønne Røsler
(Mikkel), Silje Torp
Færavaag (Milla)
Courtesy of the Norwegian Film Institute
Hustle & Flow
USA, English, 2004, 35mm, 114min
Dir: Craig Brewer
Craig Brewer's Hustle & Flow is a revelation and a delight. Djay is a pimp suffering a midlife crisis
and although nominally successful, he yearns to record his flow and become a respected rapper.
Galvanized by a gospel song, he sets his dream in motion-- recruiting his motley crew and
building a studio in his home. And though he succeeds in putting his rap, "It's Hard for a Pimp,"
onto tape, the barriers to fame and fortune are many, and getting there becomes an elusive goal.
Brewer succeeds in imbuing this streetwise yet romantic film with a dimension and a profundity
that one doesn't normally associate with its perhaps less-than-refined subjects. But the voices it
evokes and the clarity of its vision are as accomplished and memorable as any you've seen. With
elements you don't anticipate and characters that play against stereotype, Hustle & Flow is a
masterful reframing of the world that creates hip-hop and a succinct and humanizing portrait of
the wellspring of contemporary music.— Geoffrey Gilmore
Starring: Terence Howard, Anthony
Anderson, Taryn Manning, Taraji Henson, DJ
Qualls, Ludacris
Courtesy of UIP (SA)
Thu 17 7.30pm CN4
Sun 20 8.15pm CN6
Le Jardin de Papa
France/Congo, French, 2004, 35mm, 75min
Dir: Zéka Laplaine
In this action packed drama, French newlyweds visit an African country the day before general
elections and their idyllic honeymoon quickly turns into hell. When Jean (Labasse) marries Marie
(Turkhi) he wants to show her the Africa he grew up in. But it is now a very different place to the one
he remembers. On the way from the airport, their taxi driver Tamba (Sagna) accidentally knocks
down a child. The amassing mob thinks that Tamba is trying to make a run for it and attack him. Jean
and Marie manage to escape down a side
street, find Tamba’s battered body, and together, hide in the house of Kapinga (Princess Erika).
When the mob, already agitated by the elections, discover where they are, they demand revenge and
besiege the house.
Starring: Rim Turkhi, Princess Erika, Akéla
Sagna, Laurent Labasse, Thierno Ndiaye
Doss, Kader Diarra, Oubri G. Gbati, Nicaise
Ndodine, Marie Avril, Omar Seck, MarieMadeleine Diallo
Sun 13 2.45pm CN6
Fri 18 2.45pm CN6
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
USA, English, 2005, 35mm, 102min
Dir: Shane Black
A thoroughly modern P.I. tale, this tonguein-cheek caper offers exceptional performances,
snappy dialogue and a tight plot that combines to turn stock characters and situations on their
heads releasing a never-ending supply of mischief. When a toy store heist goes horribly wrong,
Harry Lockhart (Downing) unwittingly hides out in the audition for a big Hollywood movie.
Impressed by his ‘method acting’, Lockhart is dispatched to tinsel town to prepare for his screen
test with a tough guy private eye, nicknamed Gay Perry (Kilmer). At the glamorous party where
the two are introduced, Harry is also re-connected with an old flame, Harmony Faith, who is
obsessed with the detective novels of Johnny Gossamer. After Perry drags Harry to a routine
stakeout, they are left holding a dead body and become deeply involved in a Gossamer-esque
situation.
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer,
Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen
Courtesy of Nu-Metro
(Sun 20th - Presented by: Die Burger)
Sat 12 10pm CN5
Wed 16 2.15pm CN4
Sun 20 9pm AT
The Lion of Soweto / Tau ya Soweto
South Africa, Sotho/Zulu/English/Afrikaans,
2005, Video, 100min, Dir: Kevin du Toit
In this powerful, local film, one boy struggles to change his fate in modern Soweto. With his
mother death, his father’s disappearance and his brother’s imprisonment, Tau Matle is all alone in
the world. Although Tau grew up on the streets of Soweto and has seen it all, he has had enough.
When his friends try to tempt him with the easy life of crime, Tau is determined to make money
legally and create the stable home life he never had. One day, his prospects change when he
meets a boxing trainer (Matlala) and Thembi, a beautiful young girl. Using the skills he learnt
growing up on the streets, Tau begins to train as a boxer and earns their respect. But to make his
future secure, he knows he has to win one more illegal fight.
Starring: Baby Jake Matlala
Sun 13 5.30pm FAWU
Sat 19 2.45pm ZH
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Live and Become
France/Israel, Aramaic/Hebrew/French,
2004, 35mm, 153min
Dir: Radu Milhaileanu
This gripping and engaging tale of deception and survival, entwines the issues of politics,
religious right, love and identity around the fate of one young boy. In 1984, displaced by civil war
and famine, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians walked the long road to refugee camps in
Sudan. Hidden among them were the Falashas, Ethiopian Jews and direct descendents of King
Solomon. Israel airlifted the Falashas to a new life in Israel. In the mayhem, a starving Christian
mother entrusts her 9-year old son with a bereaved Falasha mother. When the ‘mother’ of the
newly named Schlomo (Agazai) dies, he is adopted by kind, liberal people. Wracked by his loss
and the gravity of his secret, Schlomo struggles against his good fortune, unable to come to
terms with a new country, a new culture and its own prejudices.
Starring: Yael Abecassis, Roschdy Zem,
Moshe Agazai, Mosche Abebe, Sirak M.
Sabahat, Roni Hadar, Meki Shibru Sivan,
Mimi Abonesh Kebebe
Sun 13 8.30pm LO1
Mon 14 5.30pm LO1
Sun 20 2.30pm CN5
Lord of War
USA, English, 2005, 35mm, 122min
Dir: Andrew Niccol
The sons of Ukraine immigrants, Yuri Orlov (Cage) and brother Vitaly (Leto) embark on the
globetrotting, deadly career of arms dealing. A day’s work includes keeping a close eye on the
world’s potential trouble spots and courting dictators, drug lords and military opportunists, who
live on the edge of insanity. When the Ukraine’s vast arms cache falls into their hands, they must
outsmart business rivals, dodge Interpol agent Valentine (Hawke) and sell their deadly products
to the highest bidders, all the while
disclaiming any responsibility for their use. This deeply dark and bitterly funny film is based on
real events, with the drylyhumorous,
self-delusional anti-hero, Yuri, a composite of five real-life gunrunners. As such, its exotic, fastpaced and fun fuelled action thinly masks a blistering attack on a deadly numbers game played
by the world powers.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke,
Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan
Courtesy of Nu Metro
Sat 12 10.30pm CN4
Thur 17 2.30pm CN5
Sun 20 7.30pm CN4
Manderlay
Denmark/Sweden/Netherlands, English,
2005, 35mm, 139min
Dir: Lars von Trier
Continuing where Dogville left off, Manderlay is set in 1933. Grace (Howard), her father (Dafoe)
and their merry band of gangsters are wandering through Alabama when they happen upon a
community where slavery still exists seventy years after its abolition. Grace intervenes when a
slave (de Bankolé) is to be beaten. At the same time the plantation’s matriarch, Mam (Bacall)
dies. Unexpectedly emancipated, the inhabitants are paralyzed by their fear of this new order.
Grace decides to stay until the harvest, and encourage the group to embrace their rights.
Although driven by good intentions, Grace’s act of humanity is neither welcomed nor embraced.
In this thought-provoking second of three comments on America, Trier uses a distinctive style to
drive home the black and white nature of one country’s good, but often ignorantly misguided,
intentions.
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Lauren Bacall.
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute
Wed 16 8pm CN5
Fri 18 10pm CN5
Sat 19 2.30pm CN5
Mama Jack
SA, English/Afrikaans, 2005, 35mm, 52min
Dir: Gray Hofmeyr
Shuster is back – as Mama Jack! This starstudded, hysterical film fuelled by Shuster’s comedic
mayhem navigates the world of
film. Jack Theron is a grip for the film industry. While working on a film about Madiba, John, the
American director takes such a
dislike to Jack that he spikes his drink at a high-profile function. As a result, Jack unwittingly
offends all the dignitaries, ruins
the function, and is now on the run from the police. In desperation, he turns to his makeup artist
friend, Shorty, for help and emerges as the big, busty, and black, Mama Jack. Through a series of
evasive tactics, Mama is soon employed by the producer's
fiancée and falls in love with her. A series of deceptions and misunderstandings ensue with
predictable hilarity.
Starring: Leon Schuster, Alfred Nthombela,
Mary-Anne Barlow, Lionel Newton, Shaleen Surtie-Richards
Courtesy of Videovision
By Invite Only
Nu-Metro V&A Mon 14 time: tbc
Masai: The Rain Warriors
France/Kenya, Masai, 2004, Video, 94min
Dir: Pascal Plisson
This arrestingly beautiful adventure set in Kenya depicts a community’s quest to bring rain to their
land and ensure their survival.
An integral part of Masai history, a legendary lion, Vitchua, appears whenever God’s intervention
is needed. When drought ravages
the plains of Kenya, the most talented warrior is sent out to defeat the lion-god and lift the curse
of Red God. When he is killed, the
community’s survival is left in the hands of a select group of untested adolescent warriors. The
group is led by Lomotoon (Muntet), but his best friend Merono (Mako) is not selected. When
Merono runs away, he is taught the ways of the warrior by the once-great fighter, Papai
(Sekenan). The entire village is almost convinced that the lion-god does not exist, fate steps in.
Starring: Ngotiek Ole Mako, Paul Nteri Ole
Sekenan, Parkasio Ole Muntet, Musurpei
Ole Toroge, Swakei Kipilosh, Kiaki Ole
Narikae, Peniki Ole Soyiantet, John
Parkuyere Nkinai, Lemerok Nkuruna, Daniel
Kipa Ole Nginai
Courtesy of Videovision
Sat 12 2.45pm CN6 49
Tue 15 3pm LO1
Mater Natura
Italy, Italian, 2005, 35mm, 93min
Dir: Massimo Andrei
This film uses a balanced mix of gravity and comedy to explore the trials and tribulations of being
a transsexual in Italy. Supported by her florid, avant-garde circle of friends, the prostitute
Desiderio (Calzone) has just gone under the knife to change her sex. But, when she meets the
delectable Andrea (Manzillo), the intensity of her feelings makes her believe that this is true love,
for which
she is all set to give up her street-walking ways. Unfortunately, Andrea is engaged. As the
relationship progresses, Andrea
finds it difficult to make a choose between Desiderio and his fiancée, Maria. Andrea’s indecision
prompts Desiderio’s best friend, Massimo (Luxuria), to organise a pick me up treat to a Vesuvian
retreat called ‘Mater Natura’ (Latin for Mother Nature).
Starring: Maria Pia Calzone, Franco
Lavarone, Vladimir Luxuria, Enzo Moscato
Courtesy of Italian Ministry of Culture
Tue 15 8pm CN5
Sat 19 4.30pm LO1
The Murmuring Coast
Portugal, Portuguese, 2004, 35mm, 120min
Dir: Margarida Cardoso
Idealistic and cosmopolitan, Evita arrives in 1970s bustling Lorenzo Marques to marry Luis. A
soldier in the Portuguese army, Luis
is defending the ‘Portuguese empire’ from those seeking self-rule. But despite the upbeat
publicity, all is not well in the colonies. Evita finds that Luis’ enquiring mind has been obliterated
by the pervasive violence of his job. And when Luis’ unit goes on a last ditch operation, she is left
alone in the city, her only friend the wife of Luis’ superior, Helena who confines herself to her
house and obsesses about the army’s casualty statistics. Evita’s curiosity is sparked by sinister,
hushed up deaths in the local black population. When she meets a journalist to discuss the
matter, her loneliness combines with political and sexual rebellion to form a
dangerous liaison.
Starring: Jose Airosa, Beatriz Batarda, Carla Bolito
Sat 12 5pm LO4
Wed 16 3pm LO3
Sat 19 12.15pm CN5
Moolaadé / Protection
Senegal, Jula/French, 2004, 35mm, 124min
Dir: Sembene Ousmane
This strikingly powerful film uses the contentious issue of female circumcision in Africa to aptly
illustrate the eternal tug of war between progress and tradition. Every seven years a small African
village holds a female circumcision ritual. This year, six of the young girls flee. Four of the girls
seek refuge with one of the villagers’ second wife, Collé (Coulibaly). Collé was a victim of the
purification ritual, but managed to protect her daughter from the same fate. After offering the girls
sanctuary, she invokes a traditional charm that brings misfortune to any who may harm the girls
while they remain under her roof. Collé’s steadfast refusal to lift the spell not only causes tension
in the village, but in her household, as Collé’s husband rebukes her decision. The ensuing epic
battle of wills tears the village apart.
Starring: Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maïmouna
Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traore, Aminata
Dao, Dominique T. Zeida, Mah Compaore
Courtesy of New Yorker Films
Mon 14 7.30pm CN4
Fri 18 2.15pm CN4
Sat 19 2.15pm LO4
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Old Boy
South Korea, Korean, 2003, 35mm,
120 min
Dir: Chan-wook Park
Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken
night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private "prison" for 15 years. No one will tell him why
he’s there and who his jailer is, but he is kept in reasonably comfortable quarters and has a TV to
keep him company. On the TV, though, he discovers that he has been framed for his wife’s
murder and realizes that, during one of the occasions in which he’s knocked out by gas, someone
has drawn blood from him and left it at the scene of the crime. The imprisonment last for 15 years
until one day when Dae-su finds himself unexpectedly deposited on a grasscovered high-rise
roof. He’s determined to discover the mysterious enemy who had him locked up. While he’s
eating in a
Japanese restaurant, his cell phone rings and a voice dares him to figure out why he was
imprisoned.
Starring: Min-sik
Choi, Ji-tae Yu,
Hye-jeong Kang
Courtesy of Cineclick Asia
Sat 12 12noon LO4
Thu 17 5pm CN4
Ouaga Saga
Burkina Faso, Moore, 2004, Video, 90min
Dir: Dani Kouyate
This magical modern fable is set in the dusty, land-locked capital of Burkina where a whole lot of
luck changes the destinies of a group of friends. Poverty may stand in the way of ten young
friends’ dreams, but they refuse to be pessimistic. Living in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of
the city, these enterprising youths rely on small jobs to survive. One day a wealthy young woman
leaves her unlocked scooter outside a dress shop and the kids see their chance. They steal the
scooter, sell it and share out half the money, stashing the other half in the compound where they
live. Their newfound wealth drastically changes the atmosphere in the compound and one of the
neighbours becomes suspicious. The kids find him snooping and their response causes a domino
effect will changes their lives forever.
Starring: Amidou Bonsa, Sebastien Belem,
Jerome Kabore, Agibou Sanou, Thomas
Ouedraogo
Sun 13 12noon LO1
Tue 15 2pm FAWU
Paradise Girls
Germany/Netherlands, Dutch/Cantonese/English/Japanese/Mandarin, 2004, 35mm,
97min, Dir: Fow Pyng Hu
This wry, amusing film spins the tales of three very different Asian women from in three diverse
parts of the world who are transformed by three men, who prompt emotional turning points in
each of their lives. Miki (Katayama) is a fast-talking, selfabsorbed woman from Tokyo. She
explains the 23 reasons why her Dutch holiday boyfriend Benny (Poltemans) should go
home. But once she puts him on the plane, she follows him to Amsterdam to persuade him to
travel to Thailand with her. Pei-pei
(Wu) was brought up and lives in Holland. She cannot communicate with her father (Mr. Cheng)
and is horribly about her cultural upbringing. Shirley (Koo) is a single Hong-Kong mother who
must nurture a tentative modelling career at the same time as arranging a heart-operation for her
son.
Starring: Kei Katayama, Eveline Wu, Jo Koo, Guido Poltemans, Mr. Cheng, Wong Kam-tong
Courtesy of Holland Films
Tue 52 ue 15 5.45pm LO1
Palermo Hollywood
Argentina, Spanish, 2004, 35mm, 120min
Dir: Eduardo Pinto
This is an energetic, gritty thriller that follows the bad-choices of two pettycriminals who deal,
skim and scam on Buenos Aires' mean streets. By cruising the streets pouncing on any given and
deviant opportunity, Pablo (Desiderio) hopes to provide for his often neglected girlfriend and kid.
But Pablo’s best buddy, rich kid, Mario(Maya) appears to get off on slumming it with Mario’s
group of hoods. One day, coked to the eyeballs and endeavouring to please a local nightclub
owner called Gay Steve (Nieva), they stupidly take on an initially simple job that ends in the
murder and kidnapping of a prominent person. The consequences challenge their once sound
friendship, which is strained further when Mario falls for Pablo’s virginal sister, Julieta.
Starring: Brian Maya, Matias Desiderio,
Manuela Pal, Edgardo Nieva, Miguel
Dedovich, Azul Lombardia, Cristina
Banegas, Mrtin Adjemian
Tue 15 5.45pm LO4
Wed 16 8pm LO3
Sat 19 2.45pm CN6
The Passion of Joshua, the Jew/ La Passione di Giosue l’ebreo
Italy/Spain, Italian, 2005, 35 mm, 100min
Dir: Pasquale Scimera
This classical film set in 1492 Spain, follows the exile of Jews when banished during the Spanish
Inquisition. Joshua (Abude) is the son of Rabbi Josef and, although he has an integral knowledge
of the Torah, he has little knowledge of real life or other faiths. By luck, the Napolitano, Don Isaac
Abravanel (Bertorelli), believes Joseph is the messiah. He offers Joshua and his family sanctuary
when they are forced to leave Spain. With his mother, Anna (Bonaiuto), and sister, Sara
(Moscati), he makes the dangerous journey to safety, but once they arrive in Naples, they are
forced to flee to Sicily. In Sicily, they masquerade as Christians, leading to Joseph’s increased
fascination with Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, an Inquisitor (Albanese) suspects Joseph and
arrests him. As he faces trial, Joseph’s fate begins to resemble that of the messiah that he’s
adopted as his own.
Starring: Anna Bonaiuto, Leonardo Cesare
Abude, Marcello Mazzarella, Giordana
Moscati, Franco Scaldati, Vincenzo Albanese,
Toni Bertorelli
Courtesy of the Italian Ministry of Culture
Tue 15 5.15pm CN53
Wed 16 5.30pm LO1
The Polish Bride
Netherlands, Dutch, 1998, Video, 86min
Dir: Karim Traidia
Against the encroaching background of a foreboding crisis, two people are thrown together by
sheer circumstance. This stylish film tells the intriguing story of their blossoming love. Bruised and
battered, Polish Anna (Hendrickx) manages to escape from the men who want to force her into
prostitution. Unable to speak Dutch and feeling vulnerable, she arrives in a small village in
Northern Holland. When she collapses on a farm, the softhearted farmer, Henk (Spijkers), takes
her in. The two begin to thrive together on the farm. Anna smoothes out Henk’s rough bachelor
edges and she starts to recover from her external and internal wounds. Despite the burgeoning
romance and the fragile prospect of hope, an undercurrent of tension remains, especially when
the thugs visit the farm, looking for Anna.
Starring: Jaap Spijkers, Monic Hendrickx,
Rudi Falkenhagen, Roef Ragas, Hakim
Traidia, Soraya Traidia.
Courtesy of Holland Films
Fri 18 8.15pm LO4
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Rabbit On The Moon / Conejo en la Luna
Mexico/UK, Spanish/English, 2004, 35mm,
112min, Dir: Jorge Ramiraz-Suarez
Set in a world where conspiracies and corruption abound, this cat and mouse thriller is sleek and
almost unbearably tense. Antonio Santos (Bilchir) attempts to buy a better life for his lover Julie
(Pilkington) and their new baby by investing in some prime real estate. At the last minute, Antonio
pulls out of the investment when he discovers that their agent, Chubby (Cobos), has been
involved in a political assassination that went horribly awry. In revenge, Chubby reports their
names to the authorities, as suspects in the attempted assassination. Suddenly caught up in a
web of political intrigue that reaches as far as England, the young couple fight shady politicians
and their equally corrupt police cronies for survival and justice.
Starring: Bruno Bichir, Lorraine Pilkington,
Jesús Ochoa, Adam Kotz, Álvaro Guerrero,
Rodrigo Murray, Emma Cunniffle, Ricardo
Blume, Reece Dinsdale, Carlos Cobos,
Jacqueline Voltaire,
Alberto Parra,
Rodrigo Vázquez,
Stephen Boxer,
Eugenia Leñero
Courtesy of Nu-Metro
Sat 12 12noon CN6
Sun 13 5.30pm LO3
Mon 14 3pm LO3
Rebels / Rebelove
Czech Republic, Czech, 2001, 35mm,
109min
Dir: Filip Renc
On the eve of the 1968 Soviet invasion, a trio of giggling rural high school girls are pursued by
three Czech boys. The young girls are gradually swept off their feet by the three friends - only to
discover that they are actually AWOL from their mandatory military service. The film’s main
couple, Tereza and Simon, struggle to enjoy the free sprit of the times in spite of the turbulent
political circumstances. The film’s use of original and re-recorded 1960s-era tunes makes this an
original and upbeat romantic musical comedy with a strong political conscience.
Starring: Zuzana Norisova, Jan Revai,
Thomas Hanak
Courtesy of the Embassy of Czech Republic
Wed 16 5.30pm CN6
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Samaritan Girl
South Korea, Korean, 2004, 35mm, 95min
Dir. Kim Ki-duk
Definitely the work of an auteur, Kim Ki-duk’s film is a startling cinematic concerto, in three
distinct movements. What begins as a contemporary rite-ofpassage tale about two schoolgirls
who start online dating shifts disturbingly when they assume the roles of sexual adventuress and
pimp. Yeo-Jin keeps watch whilst her best friend Jae-Young illegally experiments with older men,
and finds
captivating fulfilment. Although tragedy is inevitable, the story doesn’t end there. The Korean
director picks up on themes of love and jealousy through subtle changes of character focus –
first, as Yeo-Jin tries to re-enact the sexual fulfillment her friend felt, and next, when her father
uncovers his daughter’s treachery. The syncopated style intensifies a climax that speaks volumes
about social disconnection and the end of tradition.
Starring: Yeo-reum Han, Ji-min Kwak, Eol Lee
Courtesy of Cineclick Asia
Fri 18 6.30pm AT
Sat 19 2.15pm LO1
Shanghai Dreams
China, Mandarin/ Shanghainese, 2005,
35mm, 123min
Dir. Wang Xiaoshuai
This story of star-crossed lovers echoes China’s traumatic upheavals in the stirrings of the heart’s
desire. Schoolgirl Qin Hong and her friend experience love’s first bloom. But her father, Lao Wu,
won’t let her innocent affair with a machinist spoil his plans: he and a cabal of factory workers in
this cloistered provincial town are plotting their return to fabulous Shanghai, a city they left 20
years earlier when the revolution opened up countryside factories on the ‘ Third Front.’ An old
world still kicking, a new world struggles to be born. In a town splitting apart on class and
generational lines, clashes occasionally erupt from behind closed doors, where families and
artisans alike most feel the shadow of morality, and the fear of change that tramples young
dreams.
Starring: Yuanyuan Gao, Bin Li, Yan Tang
Courtesy of Fortissimo
Sat 12 2.15pm LO4
Sun 13 2.30pm LO4
Shooting Dogs
UK/Germany, English, 2005, 35mm, 115min
Dir: Michael Caton-Jones
Young and enthusiastic, Joe (Dancy) arrives in Rwanda in the early 90s determined to make a
difference to the lives of ordinary Africans. Convinced that the ravaged image of Africa is a cliché,
he teaches at a school and reminds the headmaster, Father Christopher (Hurt), of himself on his
arrival in Africa 30 years earlier. Joe becomes fond of his pupils, especially the bright young
Marie (Ashitey). As the country descends into brutal genocide, it is ignored by the international
community. And as the UN trucks are about to abandon Rwanda, Joe must decide between
leaving his pupils or losing his life. Shot in the exact locations that these
horrific events took place, this film is a heart-rending glimpse into the bigger picture surrounding
the Rwandan genocide.
Starring: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique
Horwitz, Claire-Hope Ashitey
Courtesy of Cross Day Productions
Mon 14 5pm CN4
Tue 15 8.30pm LO1
Sun 20 5.30pm CMax
Sometimes in April
France/USA/Rwanda, English/Kinyarwanda,
2005, 140min
Dir: Raoul Peck
This harrowing drama focuses on the almost indescribable human atrocities that took place in
Rwanda a decade ago through the story of two Hutu brothers - one in the military, one a radio
personality - whose relationship and private lives were forever changed in the midst of the
genocide. Both an edge-of-the seat thriller and a chilling reminder of man's incomprehensible
capacity for cruelty,
Sometimes in April is an epic story of courage in the face of daunting odds, as well as an exposé
of the West's inaction as nearly a
million Rwandans were being killed. The plot focuses on two brothers embroiled in the 1994
conflict between the Hutu majority (who had ruled Rwanda since 1959) and the Tutsi minority
who had received favoured treatment when the country was ruled by Belgium. The protagonists
(both Hutus) are reluctant soldier Augustin Muganza, married to a Tutsi and father to three, and
his brother Honoré), a popular public figure espousing Hutu propaganda from a powerful pulpit:
Radio RTLM in Rwanda.
Cast: Pamela Nomvete, Idris Elba, Oris
Erhuero, Debra Winger
Courtesy of HBO Films
Wed 16 5pm CN4
Sat 19 5.30pm CN6
Sun 20 2.45pm LO1
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Suddenly / Tan de Repente
Argentina/Netherlands, Spanish, 2002,
35mm, 90min
Dir: Diego Lerman
This humane, unassumingly quirky, quasidocumentary explores the consequences of losing
inhibitions, discovering yourself and making friends under unusual circumstances. Marcia
(Saphir) is a dumpy, skittish sales assistant in a lingerie store who obsessively dials her exboyfriend’s number and is terrified of men following her through the Buenos Aires subways. But
despite all this, a skinny biker lesbian Mao (Crespo) is fascinated by Marcia, and decides to
propositions her. Mao and her partner, Lenin (Hassan), semi-kidnap Maria, steal a car and go on
a road trip to Lenin’s aging aunt Blanca (Thibaudin). Blanca has two lodgers: Felipe (Ferrante), a
shy stuttering biology student, and Delia (Merlino), a soft-spoken teacher. The cast of kooky
characters is a joy to watch as they form, re-establish and dissolve relationships.
Starring: Tatiana Saphir, Carla Crespo,
Veronica Hassan, Beatriz Thibaudin, María
Merlino, Marcos Ferrante
Courtesy of Flach Pyramide International
Sun 13 5.15pm CN5
Tue 15 8.15pm LO4
Thumbsucker
USA, English, 2004, 35mm, 94min
Dir: Mike Mills
This quirky coming-of-age comedy covers identity crises, family issues and thumb sucking. Justin
Cobb (Pucci) has a problem. He is 17 years old and still sucks his thumb. His new age, guruesque orthodontist, Dr. Perry Lyman (Reeves), decides to hypnotise him. Amazingly, it works.
However, the thumb sucking turns out to be an anxiety crutch that helped him to control his
insecurities.
Now he lives in constant fear of his ambitious mother (Swinton) leaving him and his father Mike
(D’Onofrio). His debating coach (Vaughn) suggests Ritalin, but this leads to arrogance, weed and
sex. Justin’s whirlwind journey of self-discovery helps him to see that everyone is crippled by
some sort of anxiety or flaw, including his parents with their odd obsessions and embarrassing
memories, or his timid schoolmate, Rebecca (Garner).
Starring: Lou Pucci, Vincent D’Onofrio, Tilda
Swinton, Chase Offerle, Keanu Reeves,
Vince Vaughn, Kelli Garner, Benjamin Bratt
Courtesy of Nu-Metro
Sun 13 2.45pm CN5
Thu 17 2.15pm CN4
Turn Left at the End of the World / Sof Ha'Olam Smola
Israel, Israeli, 2004, 35mm, 108min
Dir: Avi Nesher
This wonderfully humorous, joyful journey of an isolated, culturally disparate community is seen
through the precise character observations of a teenage girl, Sara (Liraz Charchi). In the sixties,
an Indian family moves to a tiny Israeli village on the edge of the desert. The village is populated
by Jewish immigrants who just tolerate each other, working at the village’s only means of
employment, a bottle factory. Although invested in a new beginning, the adults of the two focal
families cling to the rituals and emotional baggage of the lands of their birth. Roger (Parmeet
Sethi), Sara’s dashing Indian father, insists on playing cricket, while Nicole’s mother strictly
maintains the dignity of a long gone era. As the adults circle each other warily, a friendship grows
between Sara and Nicole (Neta Garty) as they navigate their community and sexual awakening.
Starring: Parmeet Sethi, Jean Benguigui,
Liraz Charchi, Neta Garty, Aure Atika,
Rotem Abuhab
Thur 17 7.45pm LO1
Sat 19 5.15pm CN5
Sun 20 2.15pm CN4
Under the Moonlight / Sous le Clarte de la Lune
Burkina Faso, French/Djoula, 2004, Video,
90min, Dir: Apolline Traore
Patrick (Lecann), a French engineer, returns to a small Burkina Faso village to fix the water pump
that he built 9 years ago. He brings his sulky young daughter Martine (Azar) with him and
immediately the village is thrown into turmoil. Kaya (Homawoo), a beautiful woman, has been
struck mute ever since Patrick left. She kidnaps Martine and takes her into the bush. Martine is
understandably upset, even though Kaya treats her gently, making sure she is comfortable.
However, Martine slowly starts to relax in Kaya’s presence. Close on their heels is Patrick and a
group of villagers, tracking the pair. Patrick is horrified to discover Martine’s medication in the
long grass. He discloses a shocking secret that makes their mission immensely urgent and the
mysterious happenings of previous nine years are revealed.
Starring: Silvie Homawoo, Tania Azar,
Sylvain Lecann, Abdoulaye Koné, Moussa
Sanou Amadou Ouattara, Rasmané
Ouédraogo, Adama Soulama, Barou O.
Ouédraogo
Sat 12 2.30pm LO1
Wed 16 3pm LO1
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Unfinished Life
USA, English, 2005, 35mm, 107min
Dir: Lasse Hallstrom
Set in the magnificent landscape of Wyoming, this star-studded film tells the story of a tense
reunion between a rancher and his estranged daughter-in-law. A farmer who's been drinking hard
since his son was killed in a car crash a dozen years back, Einar Gilkynson (Redford) spends his
quiet life nursing his friend Mitch (Freeman) who survived a vicious bear attack. Einar blames his
daughter-in-law Jean (Lopez), who was driving. Then, one day, Jean (Lopez), who is fleeing her
abusive boyfriend (Lewis) turns up on his doorstep with his granddaughter Griff (Gardner). Mitch
convinces Einar to heal old wounds for the Griff’s sake, and so he grudgingly offers them
sanctuary. As he begins to thaw, he realises that his son’s life is not completely finished.
Starring: Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman,
Jennifer Lopez, Becca Gardner, Josh Lucas,
Damian Lewis, Camryn Manheim
Courtesy of Nu Metro
Sun 13 2.15pm CN4
Fri 18 2.30pm CN5
Uno
Norway, Norwegian, 2004, 35mm, 103min
Dir: Aksel Hennie, Jon Andreas Andersen
Uno is a story from inner-city Oslo about David, a twenty-five-year-old with few prospects for the
future. His days are spent hanging around with petty criminals at an inner-city gym. Still, it's better
than home: His father is terminally ill, his brother is mentally handicapped, and he's unable to
connect with his mother. But then, as his father is on his deathbed, the gym is raided by the
police. David chooses to betray his friends in the hope of reaching his father for a last farewell.
But it's too late. With his father dead and his mother grief-stricken, he's also forced to take
responsibility for his brother on top of fighting off his former underworld friends.
The crisis makes David realize what's truly important in his life: his family. He starts assuming
responsibility for both his past and his future. By losing everything, David is given a chance to
start over from scratch and rebuild his life.
Starring: Aksel Hennie, Nicolai Cleve
Broch, Bjørn Floberg, Espen Juul
Kristiansen, Martin Skaug, Lars Ahmed
Seian, Liv Bernhoft Osa
Courtesy of the Norwegian Film Institute
Wed 16 5.15pm CN5
Fri 18 3pm LO4
Sat 19 7.30pm LO3
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Walk the Line
USA, English, 2005, 35mm, 136min
Dir: James Mangold
Brilliantly and sympathetically charting the rise and fall of Johnny Cash (Phoenix), this honest
portrayal begins with thumping music
turns and becomes an ardent romance between Cash and June Carter (Witherspoon). Cash was
a shy man, with a passion for music. He wanders from cotton picking to the air force to sales, until
he walks into Sun Studios in Memphis. His wife, Viv (Goodwin), would rather he stayed at home
with her, but he wants to perform his hard luck, hard living songs and so he embarks
on a series of road shows with Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and June Carter. From the onset, sparks fly
between Johnny and June, but Johnny’s wife, June’s second marriage and Johnny’s increasing
addiction to drugs force them to remain at arms length until they can deny it no longer.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese
Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert
Patrick, Johnny Holiday
Courtesy of Nu Metro
Fri 18 10.30pm CN4
Sat 19 7.30pm CN4
Sun 20 12noon LO4
Water
India/Canada, Hindi, 2005, 35mm, 99min
Dir: Deepa Mehta
Set in the luxuriant world of 1938 colonial India, this is a hauntingly beautiful and brave
exploration of the practice and consequences of India’s traditions, in this case, child brides.
Chuyia (Sarala) is widowed when she is only 8 years old. She is sent to an Indian ashram to live
with other outcaste widows. At the ashram, not even the huge, foultempered matron Madhumati
(Manorama), can quell Chuyia’s spunk and charm. Meanwhile, Madhumati connives with the local
pimp, Gulabi (Yadav), to prostitute the gorgeous widow Kalyani (Ray) to the wealthy Brahmins.
Kalyani befriends young Chuyia and their friendship leads to
Kalyani’s fateful meeting with dashing young lawyer Narayan (Abraham). This inspirational film is
filled with finely characterised portraits of the coterie of women at the ashram, who must stoically
accept the all-powerful religious customs or struggle against them.
Starring: Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas,
Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman,
Raghuvir Yadav, Vinay Pathak, Rishma
Malik, John Abraham, Sarala
Courtesy of Videovision
Sun 13 7.30pm CN4
Mon 14 2.30pm CN5
Sat 19 8pm Kismet
When Do the Girls Show Up? / Ma Quando Arrivano Le Ragazze?
Italy, Italian, 2005, 35mm, 106min
Dir: Pupi Avati
Gianca and Nick are two young musicians that dream of putting together a jazz ensemble of their
own. After several incidents, they finally put together the "Joy spring Quintet", around which
revolve several female personalities, friends and girlfriends. The group puts the spotlight on
Nick's natural talent, and shows up Gianca's mediocre artistic talent. After nine years, the two
boys find themselves at a concert Nick is giving in Bologna, where Gianca who is mixed in with
the audience, feels troubled and at the same time emotional, as the piece they are playing is the
one he wrote together with his friends, and for his friends, when life for them, held no
expectations. Now the song by the title "But when are the girls coming?" has become a hit.
Starring: Vittoria Puccini, Claudio
Santamaria, Paolo
Courtesy of the Italian Ministry of Culture
Sun 20 4.30pm LO4
61
Where the Truth Lies
Canada/UK, English, 2005, 35mm, 107min
Dir: Atom Egoyan
In the 50s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) were entertainment’s most celebrated
comic duo. At the height of their
fame, a beautiful, naked dead girl is found in the bath of their hotel suite. Although they are not
convicted, the scandal forces
them to go their separate ways. Fifteen years later a young journalist and die-hard fan, Karen
O’Connor (Lohman) signs a lucrative book deal to write an expose on Collins. As she peels back
the truth behind that fateful night and attempts to cross the chasm between the duo’s private
identities and public personas, events begin to spiral out of control. This elegantly slick, sexy
mystery is a sumptuous tale of treachery, betrayal, devastating secrets, wanton lust and
inescapable violence concealed behind the bright, seductive and glamorous façade of stardom.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Rachel Blanchard, Alison Lohman
Courtesy of Videovision
Mon 14 5.15pm CN5
Tue 15 2.30pm CN5
Sat 19 6pm CMax
Whisky
Uruguay/Argentina/Germany/Spain,
Spanish, 2004, 35mm, 99min
Dirs: Juan Pablo, Pablo Stoll
Jacobo (Pazos) is an aging, bachelor who is a slave to a daily routine that involves opening up
his archaic sock factory and battling with the blinds. His virtually silent, contained and lonely
existence is mirrored by his faithful assistant, Marta (Pascual). The comforting mechanical
repetition of their daily lives is shattered with the news that Jacobo’s brother Herman (Bolani) is
coming to town for their mother’s memorial. Social and erudite, his success threatens Jacobo
enough to ask Marta to assume the role of his wife. Determined to enjoy himself, Herman drags
Jacobo and Marta on holiday. Using an inspired economy of visuals and performances, the three
awkwardly negotiate each other with subtle hilarity. This richly observed, subtly hilarious, but
compassionate film is an unexpected delight.
Starring: Andres Pazos, Mirella Pascual,
Jorge Bolani
Courtesy of Bavaria Films
Sun 13 12.15pm CN5
Wed 16 2.30pm CN5
Fri 18 8pm LO3
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African Retrospective
Buud Yam
Burkina Faso, More, 1997, 35mm, 96min
Dir: Gaston Kabore
This film tells an imaginary story which takes place early in the nineteenth century, right on the
bend of the Niger River. Buud Yam is the story of a young man who lost his mother and father as
a small child. In spite of his adoptive family’s profound affection he lives a distressing tragedy. He
feels this tragedy is more painful because villagers see him as an alien and call him, in an
increasingly overt way, a cursed being that will bring hardship to his adoptive family and to the
whole village. As if to prove them right, his adoptive sister Pughneere, who is deeply attached to
him, is suddenly stricken by a strange disease. No treatment can cure her and she seems to be
inexorably drawn to her death, while her relatives are helpless. Buud Yam is full of lyricism,
poetry and a whole array of human emotions.
Starring: Colette Kabore, Josephine Kabore,
Mariama Ly
Mon 14 8pm CN5
Ali Zaoua
Morocco, Arabic/French, 2000, 35mm,
95min
Dir: Nabil Ayouch
This magical film, beautifully balances the disturbing reality of life and friendship on the streets
with the mythical world of childhood escapism. A street-kid, Ali (Abdelhak Zhayra), leads three
urchins away from the violent exploitation of a gang-leader, Dib (Saïd Taghmaoui). In a retribution
skirmish, Dib’s thugs kill Ali. Coming to terms with their loss, Ali’s three friends are determined,
despite their lives of marginalisation and abuse, to give Ali a funeral befitting the "Prince of
Casablanca". Ali’s fantasy of sailing away to an island paradise with two setting suns is woven
into the children’s mythology. It becomes the driving force behind their touching mission: a
mission that leads to the transcendental power of personal dignity. A sensitive, mystical film, Ali
Zauoa celebrates the creativity and loyalty of the child, however debilitating its environment.
Starring: Mounïm Kbab, Mustapha Hansali,
Hicham Moussoune, Abdelhak Zhayra, Saïd
Taghmaoui, Mohamed Majd, Nadia Ould
Hajjaj
Mon 14 3pm LO4
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The Forest / Le Silence de la Fôret
Central African Republic/Mauritania, French, 2003, 35mm, 93min,
Dir: Didier Ouénagaré and Bassek ba Kobhio
The Forest is a sensitive examination of the existence of the ignorant oppression of the pygmies
of the forest by the ruling ‘citizens’. High-minded Gonaba returns home intent on bettering the lot
of his fellow countrymen. Ten years on, his career has advanced at the sacrifice of his ideals and
self-respect. When he travels into the rural areas, he becomes enraged by a village chief’s
ridicule of a pygmy called Manga. Gonaba believes that education will bring the pygmies respect
and resolutely journeys into the forest determined to bring liberty, equality and fraternity to the
pygmies. The Koungou pygmies have other ideas, and ultimately Gonaba receives an
unexpectedly rich education. This thoughtful film is both a rare glimpse into the lives of the
pygmies and a message that educated arrogance can be as dangerous as ignorance.
Starring: Eriq Ebouaney, Nadège BeaussonDiagne, Sonia Zembourou, Philippe Mory
Sat 12 7.30pm CN4
Madam Brouette
Senegal/Canada, French, 2002, 35mm,
100min
Dir: Moussa Sene Absa
A fiercely independent, dignified divorcee, Mati (Rokhaya Niang) trades vegetables and fruit
under the name of Madam Brouette. Having sworn off men, she works tirelessly at her own
business to secure a future for herself, her daughter and her best friend. But fate capriciously
dangles the carrot of happiness and love in front of her when a shady copy, Naago (Aboubacar
Sadikh Ba), pushes his way into her life. As the relationship develops, Mati discovers that Naago
is not only a womaniser but is also corrupt. When Naago staggers from Mati’s house peppered
with bullets, Mati is the obvious suspect. But could someone else have pulled the trigger? Madam
Brouette combines traditional and contemporary storytelling techniques to deliver a sweetly
modern mystery set in the poverty-inspired characters, gangsters, prostitutes and smugglers that
make up Dakar’s central market.
Starring: Rokhaya Niang, Aboubacar Sadikh
Ba, Kadiatou Sy, Ndeye Seneba Seck
Sat 12 7.30pm LO4
Pieces of Identity
DRC/Belgium, French, 1998, 35mm, 94min
Dir: Mweze Ngangura
In this timeless African fairy-tale is set in Belgium and DRC, issues of identity are raised as
traditional perceptions and modern life conflict. Mani Kongo (Essomba), the respected king of the
Bakongo sets off to Belgium to find his daughter Mwana (Mesa), who left their village to study
medicine many years ago. But modern Europe does not offer him the same respect and things go
horribly wrong as soon as he leaves his village, especially when thieves leave him penniless,
homeless and without a passport, he is forced to sell his priceless royal regalia. Meanwhile,
Mwana, just released from prison for drug pushing, is forced to take a job in a strip-club. She is
being pursued by the pretentious designer-clad Viva wa Viva (Goutier), but Chaka-Jo (Daulne), a
mulatto cab driver, manages to intervene.
Starring: Gérard Essomba, Dominique
Mesa, Herbert Flack, David Steegen, Cecilia
Kankonda, Thilombo Lubambu, Mwanza
Goutier, Nicola Donato.
Sat 12 2.15pm CN4
The Price of Forgiveness
Senegal, French, 2001, Video, 90min
Dir: Mansour Sora Wade
This fable-riddled film that is based on an ancient Senegalese legend, engagingly weaves the
supernatural with the real. As the powerful marabout lies dying, the small fishing village in
Southern Senegal seems curse by an insidiously thick fog that stops the economically vital fishing
boats from leaving port. When the marabout dies, his powers are transferred to his son Mbanick
(Seck) who takes his boat out to sea to impress the local beauty, Maxoye (Niang), the fog lifts as
he returns with a boat full of fish. But his popularity sparks the jealousy of his spoiled and
physically powerful best friend, Yatma (Kounde) who then burns Mbanick’s boat. This action, and
the love triangle with Maxoye, triggers a series of tragic events that navigates the cycle of death,
rebirth, revenge, and reconciliation
Starring: Hubert Kounde, Rokhaya Niang,
Gora Seck, Alioune Ndiaye, Nar Sene,
Thierno Ndiaye Doss, James Campbell,
Dieynaba Niang
Mon 14 3pm LO1
Tilai
Switzerland/UK/France/BurkinaFaso/
Germany, More, 1990, Video, 81min
Dir: Idrissa Ouedraogo
When Saga returns to his village, he discovers that Nogma, the woman that he had been
promised, has been married away to his own father. Saga refuses to stay with his family and
builds a makeshift house a short distance away from the village. Nogma however still loves Saga
and covertly visits him but their secret is soon discovered by Saga's father. The village is
scandalised and they start to discuss what action should be taken against Nogma and Saga...
Starring: Rasmane Ouedraogo, Ina Cisse,
Roukietou Barry
Sun 13 11.45am CN4
Sambizanga
Angola, Portuguese, 1972, 35mm, 103min
Dir: Sarah Maldoror
There was only concern for Vietnam, we didn’t exist. Confronted by the indifference to African
liberation, Sambizanga stands out. Because our wars were also wars of liberation. Why has
history forgotten us? Sambizanga is a call, a cry of a nation famished of liberty, justice and
dignity. A scorned nation, fighting for its freedom. These men, women and children of the MPLA
(People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola) are freedom fighters, "men of the shade" as
André Malraux described the French resistance. For us, they are bearers of light. Witness this
painful historical period during which men gave their lives to preserve their identity, tradition and
culture… our culture. So as not to become the "damned of the earth", neither to be forgotten by
history, a history which they wrote with their blood. Sambizanga is a tribute to the soldiers of
Africa.
Starring: Domingos de Oliviera, Elisa
Andrade, Jean M’Vondo, Dino Abelino
Courtesy of the French Embassy
Tue 15 8.15pm CN6
Love + Hate
UK, English, 2004, 35mm, 99min
Dir: Dominic Savage
Seething with passion, frustration, and lashings of sexual tension, two culturally disparate people
find each other despite the deep-seated racial prejudice that is part of a north English town. Adam
(Hudson) has grown up indoctrinated by his father’s and brother’s bigotry. From an outwardly
liberal Muslim family, Naseema’s life is shadowed by the double standards of her brother Yousef
(Zakir). Yousef is happy to have a fling with Michelle (Burley), a ‘loose white girls’, but wants
Naseema (Awan) to be a good, pious Muslim girl. Despite their undeniable attraction, Naseema
and Adam are bound by conflicting loyalties to friends and family, faith and tradition. Sparks fly
and, as their passion grows, so do fists. Not limited to the two lovers, the cross-wires of prejudice
and family honour must be cut before true happiness can be found.
Starring: Tom Hudson, Samina Awan,
Nichola Burley, Wasim Zakir, Ryan Leslie,
Dean Andrews, Shaida Chaudbury,
Mohammed Rafique
Courtesy of The Works
Sun 13 8pm CMax
Thur 17 5.45pm LO3
Sat 19 12noon LO4
Islam And The World
Yasmin
United Kingdom/Germany, English/Punjabi,
2004, 35mm, 87min
Dir: Kenneth Glenaan
This is an astute and bitingly ironic look at what it means to be Asian, Muslim and British in the
21st Century. Living a life filled with contradictions, Yasmin (Panjabi) lives in a Northern England
mill town. In her world, she is a nurse who refuses to speak Punjabi, drives a smart car to work,
changing from traditional to western clothing on the way, and has a soft-spot for work colleague
John (Jackson). But at home, is ruled by her strict father Khalid (Setna) who has arranged for
Yasmin to be betrothed to a Pakistani goat herder. All this changes after 9/11, when suspicious
fingers are pointed at her Yasmin’s husband, her dream of local acceptance is shattered.
Starring: Archie Panjabi, Renu Setna, Steve
Jackson, Syed Ahmed, Shahid Ahmed, Badi
Uzzaman, Amar Hussain, Joanna Booth,
Emma Ashton, Rae Kelly, Tammy Barker,
Suraj Dass, Miriam Ali, Mary Wray, Joyce
Kennedy
Sat 12 8.30pm Kismet
Sun 13 6pm CMax
Paradise Now
France/ Germany/ Netherlands/ Israel,
Arabic, 2005, 35mm, 90min
Dir. Hany Abu-Assad
A truly stunning film that catapults viewers straight to the heart of our age, Paradise Now is an
utterly immediate study of two Muslims on the West Bank, Said and Khaled, selected for a
suicide-bombing mission in Tel Aviv. An uncompromising lens shows conditions under Israeli
occupation that give rise to jihad – where men like Said feel "sentenced to life imprisonment". It’s
an unrelenting study in ordinariness in the heat of lifethreatening situations, laced with edgy
moments, furious insights and odd-angled humour. The two chosen bombers are wrought with so
many inconsistencies that they become not just vehicles for revenge but humans entangled in
relationships with mothers, dead fathers and prospective girlfriends. Ultimately, their choices are
relative: between the Paradise in their heads and the hell they live in.
Starring: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal
Courtesy of Videovision
Sat 12 6pm Kismet
Mon 14 7.45pm LO4
Sun 20 3.15pm CMax
Islam And The World
South African Showcase
Crazy Monkey – Straight out of Benoni
South Africa, English/Afrikaans, 2005,
35mm, 52min, Dir: Trevor Clarence
If you haven’t heard of Crazy Monkey –where have you been?! South Africa’s most advertised
film ever, this full length feature that follows the exploits and misadventures of Brendan and Gavin
is an extension of the cult team’s madcap MTV inserts. Brendan and Gavin are small-town
Benoni friends – they are comfortable with the fame and international adulation that they have not
yet achieved. Their life appears on track – they play in a band, review book reviews, and have
jobs in advertising. Then, the day before their eagerly awaited tenyear school reunion, they loose
their jobs. Now the pressure is on to achieve overnight success – sign their band to a label, be
cast in an American movie, woo a starlet, and get their photos in a newspaper – and nothing can
stop them ... except maybe themselves.
Starring: Brendan Jack, Gavin Williams,
Colin Moss, Tanit Phoenix, Louw Venter,
Trevor Clarence, Brett Goldin, Kagiso
Lediga, Andrew Eland, Danny K
Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor
Thur 17 3pm LO4
Dollars And White Pipes
South Africa, English, 2005, Video,
90min
Dir: Donovan Marsh
Young Bernie Baatjies dreams he’ll be like Dallas bad-man ‘JR Ewing’ one day and find that
soapie staircase to Southfork heaven. But endemic poverty, drugs and gang violence block exits
out of the Cape Flats. Nobody leaves Hanover Park "except in a coffin or with the bible in your
hand." One night, bingeing Bernie narrowly escapes gang slaughter. He flees to the city, where
he wheedles and steals his way into menial jobs until a hard-living nightclub owner gives him his
first big break - and lessons in self-worth. But Bernie’s peace is short-lived when the past follows
him… Donovoan Marsh’s first feature is based on real-life Bernie Baatijie’s rise from the ghetto a graphic journey looped with idiomatic and self-ironic social commentary.
Starring: Clint Brink, Joey Yusuf Rasdien
Courtesy of Videovision
Wed 16 8.15pm LO1
Thur 17 2pm FAWU
The Flyer
South Africa, English/Afrikaans, 2005,
35mm, 91mins
Dir: Revel Fox
Two boys grow up rough on the streets of Cape Town. One day their delinquent gang robs
Anders (van Heerden) who, in the ensuing chase, sees Keir (Geduld) leap over a park gate with
an agility he admires. Anders finds Keir and, whilst making him work off his crime, dangles a
future as a trapeze artist before him. Kier is hooked, and when Spies assaults a policeman, Keir
flees and joins Ander’s trapeze troop. Over the years, Keir’s dedication takes flight and is about to
pay off. But when Spies is released from prison, Keir must perform the most dangerous trick of
his career and resolve the conflict between his future and his past. Fox’s uplifting debut feature
utilises the insecure energy of youth to capture the tightrope of human emotions and choices that
tips the balance between success and failure.
Starring: Kim Engelbrecht, Brett Delport,
Jarrid Geduld
Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor
Tue 15 5.30pm LO3
Sat 19 5pm CN4
Homecoming
SA, English, 2005, Video, 100min
Dir: Norman Maake
Homecoming is a story of love lost, of futures promised and about our struggle for freedom but
above all it is about friendship. Set in 1996, this feature length film is cut from what was originally
a mini- series for SABC 2. It follows the return of three exiled MK soldiers; Charlie, Peter and
Thabo. Forced to deal with the harsh realities of exile, their friendship begins to take on a new
meaning. Director, Norman Maake, shows great talent and an incredible command of the
screenplay and his cast, which includes several of South Africa’s most acclaimed actors. The plot
draws on the real life experiences of the writer, Zola Maseko an acclaimed filmmaker, who was
himself a soldier in the ANC’s army- ‘MK’.
Starring: Siyabonga Twala, Tony Kgoroge,
Eric Miyeni, Nthathi Moshoesh, Bonnie
Mbuli, Mmabatho Mogomotsi
Sat 12 2pm FAWU
Sun 20 6.15pm ZH
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
South Africa, Xhosa, 2004, 35mm, 127min
Dir: Mark Dornford-May
This celebrated and inspired vision is the first and only Xhosa version of Bizet's classic opera. In
this case, the timeless tale of love, desire, erotic obsession, jealousy, revenge and madness rage
against the backdrop Khayelitsha. A love of freedom and passionate courage drives the sensual,
independent Carmen (Malefane) despite the desolation of her surroundings. But her fierce
determination and indomitable spirit is tested when she falls in love with the impulsive and
obsessed policeman, Jongikhaya (Tshoni). Fuelled by bleak choices, the tempestuous
relationship disintegrates with tragic consequences. Leading South African cinema from the front,
U-Carmen presents an authentic, vivid and multi-layered film that is both quintessentially South
African, and universally human.
Starring: Pauline Malefane, Andiswa
Kedama, Lungelwa Blou
Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor
Thur 17 5.45pm LO4
Sat 19 6pm FAWU
Extreme Screen
Dumplings
China, German/Mardarin/Cantonese, 2004,
35mm, 99min
Dir: Fruit Chan
Beware: this delicious and sumptuous film approaches the eternal quest for youth and beauty
with a queasily appetizing and thought-provoking solution. When her philandering husband’s
multiple infidelities start to get under her once luminous, but now gradually sagging, skin, the exTV star Ching (Yeung) knocks on the door of Aunt Mei (Ling). Mei is the alluring, if amoral, maker
of specialist dumplings. Mei’s extremely expensive dumplings attract a secretive clientele who are
prepared to eat anything, no matter how extreme, to reclaim their lost beauty. And despite
Ching’s initial horror at the dumpling’s crucial ingredient, her lust to recapture her youth is too
strong for her to resist taking that first bite and ask for more. Mei complies and seeks out the
ingredients for her macabre beauty treatment to prepare Ching’s next meal.
Starring: Bai Ling, Miriam Yeung, and
Miriam Yeung and Tony Leung Ka-Fai
Courtesy of Fortissimo
Sat 12 10.30pm LO4
Fri 18 10.45pm LO3
Sat 19 10.15pm LO4
Three... Extremes
Japan/China HK/South Korea
Cantonese/Japanese/ Korean/Mardarin,
2004, 35mm, 125min,
Dir: Miike Takashi, Fruit Chan, Park Chan-Wook
A cross-cultural omnibus of horror shorts from accomplished Asian indie directors, these three
films carry a definite ‘HAZARD CONTENT’ warning. By extreme Japanese director Takeshi Miike,
BOX is a atmospheric film about a child contortionists who has grown up. But something that has
resurfaced from her past and needs reburying. In the twisted CUT, the Korean, Park Chan-Wook
presents a renowned horror movie director who is given a choice by a disgruntled extra: kill a little
girl, or watch his piano playing wife lose her fingers one at a time. Hong Kong's arthouse director,
Fruit Chan fashions this short, equally disturbing version of DUMPLINGS. A woman’s dumplings
give rich women eternal youth. When a fading starlet knocks on the dumpling-maker’s door, she
ends up biting off more than she can chew with more relish than she thought possible.
Starring: Bai Ling, Tony Leung Kar-fai,
Miriam Yeung, Lee Byung-Hun, Kang HyeJeong, Lim Won-Hie, Kyoko Hasegawa,
Atsuro Watabe
Courtesy of Fortissimo
Sat 12 10.45pm LO1
Tue 15 2.45pm CN6
A Hole in My Heart / Ett Hål I Mitt Hjärta
Sweden/Denmark, Swedish, 2004, 35mm,
98min, Dir: Lukas Moodysson
Set in a claustrophobic, suitably dingy Swedish apartment, this angry, radical film is a relentless
indictment of the power the camera has to distorted people’s aspirations and expectations.
Rickard (Flinck) is an amateur pornographer. With his best friend, Geko (Marjanovi_) and the
aspiring porn star, Tess (Bråding), he begins to create his latest movie. Meanwhile, his
introverted son, Eric (Almroth), spends his time drowning out the ‘adult’s’ activities with
aggressive, industrial rock in his room. Perverted by the camera’s presence, the three begin to
drink heavily and over the next couple of days, things deteriorate in the apartment. As they
slowly lose what abandon social norms, their behaviour becomes more disturbing. Even more so
when they become convinced they are celebrities.
Starring: Thorsten Flinck, Sanna Bråding,
Björn Almroth, Goran Marjanov
Courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute
13 8pm LO4
8 10.15pm LO4
Sun 20 7.45pm LO3
Mountain of Light / Montana de Luz
Cuba, Spanish, 2005, Video, 54min
Dir: Guillermo Centeno
Mountain of Light is a collaborative documentary project which involved three Cuban film crews
visiting Honduras, Haiti, Guatemala, Mali, Namibia, Burkina Faso and Botswana to document
how Cuban medical aid has been helping the poor in those countries. Facing challenges like
floods in Guatemala and the searing heat of Namibia, Cuban doctors have successfully helped
ease the pain of ordinary people in these countries. Mountain of Light relates stories of life and
death, of laughter and pain in a way which is sure to tug at even the most cynical viewers
heartstrings.
Courtesy Europa ICAIC
Tue 15 2.15pm CN4
My Footsteps in Baragua / Los Hijos in Baragua
Cuba, Spanish/ English, 1996, Video, 60min
Dir: Gloria Rolando
In the municipality of Baraguá, Cuba, the descendants of English- speaking West Indian
immigrants keep alive the spirit of their ancestors by preserving the stories and the customs of
immigrants from Jamaica, Barbados, and other islands. This documentary shows how the West
Indian community in Cuba has forged a common heritage, and still proudly holds on to its
traditions in both public and private settings, from the public display of calypso music and the
Anglican religion, to the use of English in the home and saying grace over meals. This film
reveals the little known story of working-class black men and women who were cosmopolitan
world citizens, equally at home in English and Spanish, and who traveled throughout the
Caribbean. Many worked on the Panama Canal. All suffered the indignity of poor working
conditions and segregation in U.S.- owned company towns. But the West Indians of Cuba
retained pride in their traditions, ties with their homelands, and loyalty to the British crown. This
documentary takes a closer look at the contributions to Cuban culture made by this West Indian
community and sheds light on another facet of the African diaspora in the Caribbean.
Courtesy of Europa ICAIC
Wed 16 2.45pm CN6
Cuban Focus
Scent of Oak / Roble de Olor
Cuba, 2003, Spanish, 35mm, 127min
Dir: Rigoberto Lopez
Cuba in the first half of the 19th century is a place of unpredictability, enigma, dreams and
endless tragedy. A beautiful, distinguished black woman from Saint Dominque and a romantic,
German tradesman are the central characters in this story of boundless love set on the richest
coffee plantation in Cuba. In this period of somberness, and in a place eclipsed by intolerance
and misunderstandings, the relationship between Ursula and Cornelio comes to represent the
heightening clash of disparate cultures, identities and ideologies. The fate of their passionate,
utopian love and their struggle to maintain identity and individual discourse is inescapably
interwoven with the fate of the great coffee plantation – a beautiful but fragile paradise.
Starring: Jorge Perugorria, Lia Chapman
Courtesy of Europa ICAIC
Tue 15 7.30pm CN4
Three times Two / Tres Veces Dos
Cuba, 2004, Spanish, Video, 84min
Filmed in 3 parts: Flash, Lila and Red Light
Flash
Dir: Pavel Giroud
Starring: Geobris Martinez, Verónica Lopez, Susana Tejera
A young photographer is horrified at the strange apparitions that appear in his prints. He prepares
an exhibition that will give the ultimate drive to his career.
Lila
Dir: Lester Hamlet
Starring: Marta del Rio, Olivia Manrufo,
Caleb Casas
Lila learns of the imminent return of a lover from her youth and falls prey to memories.
Red Light/ Luz Roja
Dir: Esteban Insausti
Starring: Zulema Clares, Alexis Dias de Villegas, Elvira Cervera
Two solitary people replace the nonexistence of love in their lives with sensual dreaminess, until
their coincidental meeting at a red traffic light.
Courtesy of Europa ICAIC
Mon 14 2.45pm CN6
Children’s Festival
Catch That Girl / Klatreøsen
Denmark, Danish, 2002, 35mm, 90min
Dir: Hans Fabian Wullenweber
The obstacles connected with 12-year-old Ida, Sebastian and Jonas' perilous mission are many:
A bank vault 30 meters above ground, secret combinations to crack, vicious guard dogs to
wrestle, psychotic watchmen to distract and a bank manager to fool. Not to mention surviving a
hairraising go-cart race through narrow city streets with a hoard of cops giving chase. Equipped
with the latest climbing gear, a few borrowed go-carts and a couple of wild, throbbing hearts set
on winning Ida's love, the trio plan the most audacious bank heist in the history of Denmark — by
breaking into the world's most secure bank vault.
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute
Sat 12 11.30am AT
Golden Blaze
USA, English, 2005, Video, 87min
Dir: Bryon E. Carson
This incredible feature-length animated movie follows the troubles of two high school kids. Fierce
rivals over all manner of issues, ranging from the trivial to the important. The film enters the
fantasy realm as an accident occurs and the two boy's fathers suddenly possess some lethal
superpowers, allowing them to enter into battle at the behest of their offspring. A bizarre, funny,
and exciting movie, GOLDEN BLAZE is an innovative treat for all fans of fast-paced animated
action films.
Courtesy of the Producer
Sat 12 4.30pm AT
My Dad Is A Champ / Min Far Er Bokser
Denmark, Danish, 2004, 35mm, 25min
Dir: Morten Giese
Stefan hasn't seen his father for years. All he knows is that his father is a boxer who travels all
over the world. Stefan boxes, too, like his father. He misses him a lot. On his tenth birthday,
Stefan doesn't get the usual package in the mail from his father and he decides to go find him.
With his five-yearold brother Tobias tagging along, he sets out for the city. The boys eventually
find their father, but he is not at all what Stefan had imagined. Still, Stefan gets a welldeserved
apology, and the boys and their father start to bond. Maybe his father is not such a big
disappointment after all. Maybe, just maybe, his father really can box.
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute
Sat 12 2pm AT
Little Big Girl / Ulvepigen Tinke
Denmark, Danish, 2002, 35mm, 92min
Dir: Morten Køhlert
Denmark, 1850. A shepherd boy finds a young girl in a wretched condition. Tinke, a homeless
wanderer, is taken into care by a farmer. But Tinke, it turns out, is from a wealthy family; her
dying mother once gave her a necklace, the proof of her identity, but this valuable family heirloom
has been mislaid. A well acted, beautifully shot and classically themed children’s film based on
the novel by well known Danish author Cecil Bødker.
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute
Sun 13 2pm AT
Someone Like Hodder / En Som Hodder
Denmark, Danish, 2003, 35mm, 80min
Dir: Henrik Ruben Genz
Hodder is nine years old. His mother is dead and he lives alone with his dad. One night a fairy
asks Hodder to save the world. He starts planning an expedition and asks the strongest boy in his
class, Philip, and the cleverest boy, Alex, to join him. But saving the world is no easy task …
"Someone Like Hodder" was the opening film at Kinderfilmfest, Berlin 2003. It is based on the
award-winning novel by Bjarne Reuter, one of Denmark’s most popular authors of children’s
books.
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute
Sat 12 9am AT
Sweetheart / Ska’vivære Kærester?
Denmark, Danish, 1996, 35mm, 11min
Dir: Birger Larsen
Ludvig, 10-years-old, has a crush on Alice. He gives her his football sweatshirt, but will she give
him her silver heart? Ludvig must go through trials and tribulations before Alice will part with her
neclace.
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute
Sat 12 2pm AT
Teis & Nico / Bror Min Bror
Denmark, Danish, 1998, 35mm, 19min
Dir: Henrik Ruben Genz
How do you work up the courage for the first kiss when you're only nine years old, and you
haven't even been invited to your beloved's birthday party? Teis is on shaky ground until it turns
out that Giinjha has invited his kid brother by mistake. The boys turn up together, but only one of
them is allowed to kiss the birthday child.
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute
Sat 12 2pm AT
The Boy Who Wanted to be a Bear / Drengen Der Ville Gøre Det Umulige
Denmark, Danish, 2003, 35mm, 78min
Dir: Jannik Hastrup
An animated drama by Danish animation master Jannik Hastrup. A polar bear gives birth to a
cub, but the cub is stillborn. Griefstricken, the polar bear lies down on the ice to die. To ease her
pain, her mate steals a baby child and the little boy is raised by the she-bear as her own, learning
all the skills a bear requires. But the woman who lost her baby boy grieves deeply and her
husband vows to return the boy to her.
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute
Sun 13 11.30am AT
Wallah Be / Kald Mig Bare Aksel
Denmark, Danish, 2002, 35mm, 85min
Dir: Pia Bovin
Aksel is ten years old. He lives with his mother and elder sister on a housing estate in the
suburbs. A week's holiday from school is coming up and Aksel reluctantly spends the day time at
his local after-school club. During this week he makes new friends and he decides everything
would be much cooler if he were a Muslim! Both serious and light-hearted look at multiethnic
Danish life. Award winner at Kinderfilmfest, Berlin 2003.
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute
Sun 13 9am AT
Reality Bites - In Competition
Al’leessi: An African Actress
English, French, 2004, Video, 69min
Keita’s movie goes back to the Sixties in Niger to a time when two directors, Mustapha Alassan
and Oumarou Ganda, were pioneering a film industry that could rival Egypt’s. The leading actress
of the time was Zalika Souley, a wild Carmen of a woman. Through her ordeal with lousy deals
the film recalls her halcyon days when she was the darling of the screen. "Now a tubby peasant
mother ship, she notes how the multiple infractions of her characters—including cussing, saying
her husband's name aloud, knowing how to kiss too well—spilled over into real life, as the public
continually assumed she was a lout, a drunkard, a whore, or worse. After a coup d'état, the
government sent her, unpaid, to film festivals, a signifier with empty pockets," (Village Voice).
Al'leessi means Fate in Songhoy; but her destiny is altered even in the making of this film, where
the actress finds her value again – on screen.
Rahmatou Keïta
Director
Rahmatou Keïta was born in Niamey (Niger). She studied Philosophy and linguistics in Paris,
France. With the intention of becoming a writer and a movie director, Rahmatou began her career
as a journalist. She worked on French and international TV stations and became the first African
journalist to appear on French TV. She was the recipient of the coveted "7d'or" award on two
occasions, which she won for her work on a French television magazine show. In 1993, she
decided to follow her true passions, writing and directing, and wrote "SDF, sans domiciles fixe", a
book about the homeless in France. She went on to direct numerous documentary films.
"AL’LÈÈSSI... an African actress" is Rahmatou’s first feature length documentary.
Sat 12 5.30pm CN6
Mon 14 5.30pm CN6
Angola, Saudades from the One who Loves You
Angola, Portuguese, 2005, Video, 57min
In a series of intimate postcards to the motherland, a voice threads together the surviving legacy
of war three years after peace was made in Angola. As people and places emerge, survivors still
battle deprivation, decadence and corruption; a rapper says people now "die from high prices" in
a country where the stomach is still at war; a child called Xeroque is beaten, and drowned in the
Atlantic by soldiers, for singing a pop song that says Angola has "more bars than libraries, more
guns than dolls"; two teenagers making a living as models amongst Luanda’s ruins know the lie
of the glamorous life; homeless, prospect-less boys fight addiction; and the production of a million
barrels of oil a day produces a schizophrenic ruling class that "exports petroleum and imports
suffering." Namibian director Pakleppa has layered images with rippling lyrics of urban and rural
songs, a poem full of sublimated fury about people in a land looking for love.
Richard Pakleppa
Director
Writer, Director and Producer Richard Pakleppa has directed and produced documentaries and
fiction in Southern Africa since 1990. His work has been screened at international film festivals
and broadcast on SABC, Finnish TV2, Canal + and the NBC. He was the recipient of the Best
Documentary Award in the Southern African Film Festival, 2000, for his film Ndamona – I Have
Seen, a documentary on Truth and Reconciliation in Namibia. He is a founding member and
director of On Land Productions since 1992. He is currently raising production finance for his first
feature Taste of Rain. He is also directing and producing Hard Currency: Making a Living, Making
a Killing in partnership with Neil Brandt of Luna Films.
Sat 12 8.15pm CN6
Sun 20 2.45pm CN6
For Better or For Worse
SA/Sweden, English, 2005, Video, 54min
Dirs: Hanli Prinsloo, Marika Griehsel, Simon
Stanford
Rewind: 1994. In the flush of newly-gained freedom, seven South Africans of different race, class,
colour and beliefs speak to news crews about their hopes and fears for the future. Fast Forward:
Ten years on, three journalists re-discover the people in those newsreels. In Crossroads, one of
the women has simply disappeared. Have others fared better or worse in this marriage between
the New South Africa and its seven kinds of rainbow people? The authors’ insecurities and needs
about these new encounters give the piece an added piquancy. Behind the explicit questionandanswer responses runs another oblique, but tangible commentary about divided South Africa
- in a disembodied one-way phone conversation between Prinsloo and an Orania woman who
won’t meet her; in the desolate interior where one respondent now makes bricks on a treadmill
with a donkey as draught power. For better or worse? Viewers have seven options that
undoubtedly provoke their own questions and answers.
Hanli Prinsloo
Hanli Prinsloo started her acting studies in Pretoria and completed her degree at the Gothenburg
University in Sweden. She started her own company, Rooibok Productions and since 2000 has
been producing and directing short docs for several European broadcasters but focusing on
Swedish TV. Hanli has also written and directed several short films and is working on scripts for
longer fiction films while continuing with her documentary work.
Simon Stanford
Simon Stanford has worked in film and broadcast television since 1982. He together with, wife
and partner, Marika Griehsel founded Giant Film Productions in 2002 as a vehicle to produce
films that engage with their passionate interest in socio-political and environmental issues. Simon
also accepts commissions as director of photography on selected commercials and
documentaries.
Marika Griehsel
Marika Griehsel worked as an African correspondent for SVT Swedish Public Broadcasting
Television from 1990 to 2001 where she covered numerous major events on the continent.
Together with her husband and partner she has won several of Sweden’s most prestigious
journalistic awards. They are currently producing documentary films through Giant Film
Productions. During 2003 Marika attended a master class in documentary filmmaking at The
Swedish Institute of Drama in Stockholm Sweden.
Wed 16 8.15pm CN6
Fri 18 5.30pm CN6
Let’s Hit the Streets
South Africa/France/Zimbabwe,
English/Afrikaans, 2005, Video, 65min
Every New Year’s day, Cape Town comes alive as the energetic and vibrantly sequined
procession of Cape Choirs parade through the streets. Said to stem from the 1834 celebration of
the Cape’s abolition of slavery, this time-honoured tradition has survived both world wars and the
heavyrestrictions of Apartheid. Today, freed from political restraint, it offers an annual, cultural
focus for the community and is expected by its organisers to become a world event. Seen through
the passionate dedication of its chief organiser, ex-Americans gang member, Melvyn, this
absorbing, intimate film charts the rocky road of the 2004 event. Melvyn tirelessly roams the Cape
Flats, cheerfully overseeing the preparations. But he must also dissuade Club owners (real drug
barons) from ‘taking out’ the white liaison and persuade the young fugitive Lucky that he must
return to prison to become a real man.
Michael Raeburn
Director
Writer and film director Michael Raeburn was born in Cairo and grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe
(then Rhodesia). In 1967, he was able to leave Rhodesia and graduate from the University of
Aixen-Provence with a PhD degree in cinema. In 1969, he made Rhodesia Countdown
advocating guerrilla war against the white minority government of Ian Smith, the production of
which forced him into exile in London until the country’s independence in 1980. Michael has
written and directed numerous successful feature films and documentaries, many of which have
won prestigious awards and screened at festivals such as New York, Sydney, San Francisco,
Toronto, London, Cannes, FESPACO and Milan.
Sat 12 5pm CMax
Sun 13 8.15pm CN6
Sat 19 10pm LO1
The Mothers’ House
SA, Afrikaans, 2005, Video, 90min
This intimate documentary tells the story of a young girl, Miche Moses, a charming, precocious,
yet very troubled teenager as she learns to make sense of the world around her and of the cycle
of physical and emotional violence within her highly conflicted Cape Flats household. Miche’s
mother Valencia is an ex-Struggle activist, now an unemployed single mother about to give birth
to a third child. Proud, highly intelligent, beautiful and courageous, she herself has been deeply
affected by the world she has grown up in, with unresolved feelings not least towards her own
mother Amy, a powerful matriarchal figure who has become the dominating force in her family’s
life. Life is not always easy for women in Bonteheuwel – the area has at times been notorious for
near-endemic levels of gangsterism, rape, wife battery and child abuse – and in the film we find
three generations not only dealing with one another and with themselves, but also with an outside
world dominated by violent patriarchy.
Special Screening: Sunday, 13 November, 8PM
Bonteheuwel Multipurpose Centre
Free entry
Francois Verster
Director
François Verster has a wide background in writing, music, academia and film. After completing a
MA degree at the University of Cape Town he worked in the film industry in New York and Britain.
Verster’s documentary director/producer debut, Pavement Aristocrats: The Bergies of Cape
Town, was broadcast on SABC3, Canal Plus and the prestigious YLE-TV2 (Finland) and received
worldwide acclaim. His subsequent celebrated films, The Story of "Mbube", The Man who would
Kill Kitchener, The Granite War, Guilty and When the War is Over have all won prestigious local
and international awards and screened at festivals around the world. In 1998, Francois formed
the Cape Townbased Undercurrent Film & Television.
Tue 15 5pm CN4
Fri 18 10.15pm CN6
The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
USA/SA, Afrikaans/English, 2005, Video,
73min,
‘A thirst that even water cannot quench… a groan that has no sound." A freedom fighter’s
description of nostalgia for home haunts this testament to the filmmaker’s late father. New York
director Harris has delivered an affecting paean to Benjamin Pule ‘Lee’ Leinaeng, one of the first
MK cadres. Lee was one of a group of activists called The Bloemfontein 12 who effectively
became outlaws when they ritually burned passbooks and began, in 1960, a 300-mile journey on
foot, through Botswana to Tanzania, then to Sudan, West Africa and into ANC cells around the
world. Harris first meets his imposing father in the Bronx when his mother, Rudean, marries Lee.
From a child’s perspective, he captures the personal heartaches and undying belief of warriors on
an Odyssean mission to free South Africa, that some thought might take five or six years but
actually stole over thirty years of their lives.
Thomas Allen Harris
Director
Thomas Allen Harris is an internationally celebrated producer, director and writer and recipient of
Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships. Thomas worked as a producer for public television in
New York, prior to founding Chimpanzee Productions, Inc. His critically acclaimed documentary,
É MINHA CARA/THAT’S MY FACE premiered at the 2001 Toronto, 2002 Sundance and 2002
Tribeca Film Festivals and won seven international awards, including the Prize of the Ecumenical
Jury of Christian Churches at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival. A graduate of Harvard
College, Thomas is a former tenured Associate Professor of Media Arts at the University of
California, San Diego. Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela had its world premiere at the 2005
Toronto International Film Festival.
Tue 15 5.30pm CN6
Sat 19 1pm FAWU
Sun 20 6pm LO1
Reality Bites - Out Of Competition
The Colonial Misunderstanding
France/Germany/Cameroon
French, 2004, 35mm, 78min
Dir: Jean-Marie Teno
The Colonial Misunderstanding, a first person documentary by Jean-Marie Teno, is a journey
through history that brings to light the complex and problematic relationship between colonization
and European missionaries on the African continent. In the 19th century, shifting between
cynicism and altruism, the European colonial powers and the Church both set out on the
"civilising mission". Through an examination of the work of German missionary societies in Africa
whose vocation was to bring Christianity – and by extension, European culture and European
rule – to the heathens, Jean Marie Teno reveals "The Colonial Misunderstanding".
Courtesy of The French Embassy
Sat 12 8.15pm LO1
Definition of Freedom
SA/Canada, English, Video, 2004, 58min
Dirs: Sharmin MacKay, Kurt Ordersen
The death of the Apartheid regime in 1994 laid the grounds for freedom. Yet for young people still
dissatisfied with change or lack of it, the voice of Hip Hop has become a new weapon to
challenge the status quo. This film is centred within the underground Hip Hop movement and
vocalises uprising within South Africa ghettos. It follows local underground MCs and artistes
tracing its rapid evolution from street riots into musical protest. It features a founding member of
the Hip Hop group who pioneered this genre of artistic protest against the former Apartheid
government. Controversial but pulsing with immediacy, the documentary takes us to a new stage
of protest – amongst the underprivileged, trapped within a system created generations ago,
struggling with selfidentity, the AIDS pandemic and substandard living conditions. Through the
Hip Hop movement the youth of South Africa redefine their definition of freedom in this film, voted
best documentary at the Atlanta Hip Hop festival.
Sat 12 7.15pm CMax
Sun 13 2.30pm LO1
Sun 20 5pm FAWU
Hip Hop Colony: The African Hip-Hop Explosion
English, 2005, Video, 96min
Writer/ Director: Michael Wanguhu
Hip Hop has found a bed in Kenya. Wanguhu explores the phenomenon of ‘Genge’ – a musical
explosion that is rewriting the history of East Africa as artistes like Kalamashaka, Mau Mau,
Bamboo, Big Mike, Mercy Myra, Poxy Pressure and an up-swell of young performers reclaim
language and creativity as their own. Like a bible or dictionary, Hip Hop forms the backbone of a
society emerging out of the post-colonial soup, belted out of beatthumping matatus, registered on
the streets, understood "in the blood." The artistes featured here find their voice in a way that only
compares to the Rock and Roll revolution forty years ago in the West. Wanguhu lets the
practitioners speak for themselves of a Kenya that is "not just about lions, giraffes and fastrunning men" but crucially about youth making "something out of nothing."
Sat 12 3pm CMax
Sat 19 12noon CN6
The Emperor’s Journey / La Marche de l’empereur
France, English, 2005, 35mm, 85min
Director: Luc Jacquet
No less than a love story set in the transcendent icy wastes of the Antarctic, it may be hard to
comprehend that this is actually a realistic documentary about the emperor penguins’ annual
journey to their breeding grounds. Luc Jacquet’s lavish imagery and stunning sound-scape enrich
a romantic drama that seems better suited to the movie theatre than to the National Geographic
channel. Through spectacular scenery, the lens is a bird’s-eye view – rooted to the ice in the
penguins’ case, so that the viewer is always up close and emotional. Narrated in the firstperson/penguin by the birds themselves, the film reveals intricate relationships and rituals on a
journey that rises to heroic levels – mating, the magic of one egg laid, between ocean and
icemountains – and fathers called upon to ‘mother’ the egg until mum comes back with sea
food…Not a love story, after all – rather, a tale of devotion by a devoted cinematographer.
Courtesy of Videovision
Sun 13 12noon CN6
Fri 18 8.15pm CN6
Sun 20 90 10am AT
Inside Deep Throat
USA, 2005, English, 35mm, 92min
Dirs: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
A revealing documentary inspired by a film by director Gerard Damiano entitled DEEP THROAT
which was released in the early 70s and became the unexpected hit of the year. In the wake of its
run in the porn cinemas of mid-town Manhattan, this modest 25,000-dollar production unwittingly
became the trigger for a political debate that went far beyond the purely economic calculations of
the film’s producers. Certainly, nobody could have dreamed that the feature would go on to earn
a total of a staggering 600 million dollars. In 1972, at a time when the struggle for equality, sexual
liberation and empowerment had reached its peak, Damiano’s 55-minute film was the straw that
broke the camel’s back. DEEP THROAT was seen by millions; the film’s openmouthed, wetlipped poster image with the pearly white teeth was to become a metaphor for the drastic cultural
changes that had begun to make themselves felt during the previous months and had now found
expression in a straightforward porn film.
Courtesy of Nu Metro
Sat 12 10.45pm LO3
Sun 13 8pm Kismet
Mon 14 8.30pm LO3
King Leopold’s Ghost
USA, English, 2006, Video, 108min
Dirs: Pippa Scott, Oreet Rees
The story of personal ownership and the plundering of the Congo (DRC) by Leopold II of Belgium,
which resulted in the deaths of at least 10 million people and the creation of monstrous, heartless
society that rules Congo in today’s world. The account is about greed, power, wealth and the
colonialisation of this large and minerals rich African Country. King Leopold a monstrous and
successful strategist, whose tight grip of Congo resulted in immerse wealth for Belgium. His war
Lords or explorers, directly funded by King himself could stop at nothing, trampling Human rights
and savaging the Natives creating war machines out of humans. The carnage showed no sign of
stopping even today, led by the rebels who are directly funded by the greedy Nations leading to,
starvation, rapes and death of the ordinary society.
Starring (Narrators): Don Cheadle, James
Cromwell, Frank McCourt, Alfre Woodard
Sat 12 5.30pm LO1
Mon 14 2.15pm CN4
Fri 18 5pm CN4
Murderball
USA, English, 2005, 35mm, 86min
Dirs: Dana Adam Shapiro, Henry-Alex Rubin
Featuring fierce rivalry, stopwatch suspense, and larger-than- life personalities, Murderball is a
film about tough, highly competitive rugby players. Quadriplegic rugby players. Whether by car
wreck, fist fight, gun shot, or rogue bacteria, these men were forced to live life sitting down. In
their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash the hell out of each other in custommade
gladiator-like wheelchairs. And no, they don't wear helmets. From the gyms of middle America to
the Olympic arena in Athens, Greece, Murderball tells the story of a group of world-class athletes
unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype
you ever had about "gimps" and "cripples." It is a film about family, revenge, honor, sex (yes, they
can) and the triumph of love over loss. But most of all, it is a film about standing up, even after
your spirit – and your spine – has been crushed.
Courtesy of ThinkFilm
Sat 12 3pm LO3
Sun 13 6pm Kismet
Mon 14 5.45pm LO4
Liberia: A Fragile Peace
USA, English, 2005, Video, 63min
Dir: Steven Ross
Liberia: A Fragile Peace tells the story of a war weary people’s struggle to rebuild their nation.
This timely film goes behind the headlines to explore what really happened to this nation founded
by former American slaves, and to realistically appraise the hopes and fears about what may
happen there next. As Liberia tries to refute a quarter century of bloodshed, corruption, and
collapse, the film tells its story with a stunning diversity of perspectives, voices, and personal
experiences.
Tue 15 4.30pm FAWU
Thur 17 5.30pm LO1
Sun 20 12noon CN6
Rize
USA, English, 2005, 35mm, 86min
Dir: David LaChapelle
"Rize" reveals a groundbreaking dance phenomenon, "Krumping" that is exploding on the streets
of South Central, Los Angeles. Taking advantage of unprecedented access, this documentary
film brings to first light a revolutionary form of artistic expression borne from oppression. The
aggressive and visually stunning dance modernizes moves indigenous to African tribal rituals and
features mind-blowing athletic movement never before seen in dance.
Courtesy of Ster Kinekor
Fri 18 5.15pm CN5
Sat 19 6pm Kismet
Sun 20 12noon LO1
Shorts In Competition
Beyond Freedom
SA, English, 13min
Dir. Jacquie Trowell
An inspiring, innovative documentary employing a variety of animation styles to
relate a collection of personal reflections on and experiences of the road to political
change.
SA Shorts 2 Sun 13 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 2 Thu 17 8pm Amphi
For the Night/ Pour la nuit
Ivory Coast, French, 27min
Dir: Isabelle Boni-Claviere
A young woman comes to Marseille for her mother’s funeral. Overwhelmed by the oppressive
family rituals, she flees into the night and meets a man celebrating his bachelor night. They run
away together, becoming lost in a short-lived, escapist fantasy.
African Shorts Mon 14 8pm Amphi
African Shorts Fri 18 8pm Amphi
Fugitive Pieces
SA, English, 22min
Dir: Verushka Vogt
A young illegal immigrant forges an intriguing relationship with a local police man. The cop must
decide between his career, the respect of his conservative father, and his desire to help the
young immigrant girl.
SA Shorts 1 Sat 12 12noon FAWU
SA Shorts 1 Sat 12 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Wed 16 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Sat 19 12.45pm Zolani
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 3pm FAWU
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 8pm Amphi
African Middle Weight / Africains Poids Moyen
Belgium, French & Lingala, 16min
Dir: Daniel Cattier
Two idealistic Congolese brothers arrive in Belgium for a boxing championship at the time of
Congo’s independence. Samwa is training hard under his older brother Nourous’ strict regime
until Belgian promoters ask him to lose the fight. An ideological struggle ensues.
SA Shorts 2 Sun 13 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 2 Thu 17 8pm Amphi
And There in the Dust
SA, English, 8min
Dirs: Lara Foot Newton and Gerhard Marx
A poignant film based on a play inspired by the life and story of Baby Tshepang. The piece uses
innovative stop-motion animation to explore the tragic issue of child rape in South Africa.
Courtesy of Ster Kinekor
Dark Shorts Sat 19 8.30pm CN6
Dark Shorts Sun 20 5.30pm CN6
Another Life
SA/UK, English, 11min
Dir: Christina Beattie
The vagaries of male angst played out in a world full of alluring choices makes for a film that
resonates with all of us who suffer for our choices. Intimate film shows the talent of a new voice.
SA Shorts 2 Sun 13 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 2 Thu 17 8pm Amphi
Riding with Sugar
SA, English, 10min
Dir: Sunu Gonera
A high-paced, dynamic promotional short for a feature film by the same name. An ambitious BMX
rider trapped in the oppressive world of gangsterism and drug trafficking finds an unlikely mentor.
SA Shorts 2 Sun 13 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 2 Thur 17 8pm Amphi
The one that fits inside a bathtub
SA, English, 9min
Dir: Inger Smith
A young woman faces an identity crises and concludes that the one place she truly fits and
belongs is inside her bathtub. One day a freak lighting bolt strikes her bathtub and she is forced
to find another place where she fits.
Dark Shorts Sat 19 8.30pm CN6
Dark Shorts Sun 20 5.30pm CN6
What Goes around Comes Around
SA, Xhosa/English, 26min
Dir: Thabo Mvumvu
Thabiso is a young man from Gugulethu determined to get revenge for being robbed after a
drunken night in the shebeen. But as he stands face to face with his enemies he realizes that
using his gun might not be the best solution.
SA Shorts 2 Sun 13 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 2 Thur 17 8pm Amphi
Jewboy
Australia, English, 52min
Dir: Tony Krawitz
After his father dies, a young Jewish man, Yuri, returns from Israel to his orthodox family in
Sydney. He begins to reject Judaism and his former life and becomes a taxi-driver.
Dark Shorts Sat 19 8.30pm CN6
Dark Shorts Sun 20 5.30pm CN6
John and Michael
Canada, English, 11min
Dir: Shira Avni
A beautiful, emotive animation about two men with Down’s syndrome who share an intimate
relationship. A film that challenges society’s traditional ideas around disability, sexuality and
death.
International Shorts Tue 15 8pm Amphi
International Shorts Sat 19 8pm Amphi
Killer October
SA, Shona, 11min
Dir: Garth Meyer
A visually sumptuous film exploring a young boys’ commitment to fulfilling traditional expectations
and his unique spiritual
journey after his mother’s death.
SA Shorts 2 Sun 13 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 2 Thur 17 8pm Amphi
Nothing Special
New Zealand, English, 11min
Dir: Helena Brooks
A bitter comedy about a young boy, Billy, who grows up with a deluded mother who believes that
he is the reincarnate of Jesus.
International Shorts Tue 15 8pm Amphi
International Shorts Sat 19 8pm Amphi
Aria
Italy
Italian
28min
Dir. Claudio Noce
A cinematographic gem delving into the complexities and inadequacies in the jumbled world of a
troubled inner-city teen.
International Shorts Tue 15 8pm Amphi
International Shorts Sat 19 8pm Amphi
Bloedgrond
SA
Afrikaans
14min
Dir: David Meinert
A moving drama about a young man searching for his true identity as he is torn between
responsibility to his dying father and the desire to reunite with his biological father.
SA Shorts 1 Sat 12 12noon FAWU
SA Shorts 1 Sat 12 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Wed 16 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Sat 19 12.45pm Zolani
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 3pm FAWU
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 8pm Amphi
Bluegum Road
SA
English/Afrikaans
14min
Dir: Zoe Laband
A young, small town girl gets married thinking it will give her life meaning and fulfillment. She
soon becomes bored and oppressed and reaches out to a girl who represents a life of freedom
and selfexpression.
SA Shorts 1 Wed 16 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 8pm Amphi
Calculating Love
SA
English
10min
Dir: Nicole Lorenz
An off-beat drama about Cynthia and Will, two, eccentric individuals who discover that accepting
their differences can bring them love and liberate them from the constraints and isolation of
modern life.
SA Shorts 1 Sat 12 12noon FAWU
SA Shorts 1 Sat 12 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Wed 16 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Sat 19 12.45pm Zolani
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 3pm FAWU
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 8pm Amphi
Kitchen
France
French
14min
Dir: Alice Wincour
A dark comedy about a young woman alone in her kitchen attempting to kill two live lobsters as
cleanly as possible in order to prepare a new recipe for her husband.
International Shorts Tue 15 8pm Amphi
International Shorts Sat 19 8pm Amphi
Kounandi
Burkina Faso
More
49min
Dir: Apolline Traore
A young stranger arrives in a small village and gives birth to a child, Kounandi, who grows up to
be a dwarf. Although initially rejected by the villagers, she gradually earns her place as the prize
cake maker of the village, but can she win the heart of the man she loves?
African Shorts Mon 14 8pm Amphi
African Shorts Fri 18 8pm Amphi
Shorts Out Of Competition
The Man Who Met Himself
UK
English
9min
Dir: Ben Crowe
While attempting to solve the case of a missing person, a young man uncovers some haunting,
unexpected truths.
International Shorts Tue 15 8pm Amphi
International Shorts Sat 19 8pm Amphi
Modder Koffie
SA
English/Afrikaans
25min
Dir: Brett Melvill-Smith
An insightful story about two childhood friends who reunite after the political changes in South
Africa. Their friendship is put to the test and difficult sacrifices must be made.
SA Shorts 1 Sat 12 12noon FAWU
SA Shorts 1 Sat 12 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Wed 16 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Sat 19 12.45pm Zolani
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 3pm FAWU
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 8pm Amphi
Moonglow / Schijn van de Maan
Netherlands
Dutch
15min
Dir: Peter Ghesquiere
A young boy witnesses the brutal execution of his father. His mother sees her child’s’ world
collapsing and tells him his father has gone for a holiday on the moon.
International Shorts Tue 15 8pm Amphi
International Shorts Sat 19 8pm Amphi
Remote Paradise
Canada
English
7min
Dir: Frederick Tremblay
A zany animated fantasy about two kids who briefly rediscover their childhoods when their
television explodes. They start laughing uncontrollably and float away to a remote island paradise
until the novelty wears off and they end up back in front of the TV.
International Shorts Tue 15 8pm Amphi
International Shorts Sat 19 8pm Amphi
Rifle Road
SA
English
11min
Dir: Akin Omotoso
The gun-loving, testosterone-packed lives of Shadow and his friends are changed forever after an
unexpected, tragic event.
Dark Shorts Sat 19 8.30pm CN6
Dark Shorts Sun 20 5.30pm CN6
Safi, the little mother
Burkina Faso
More
26min
Dir: Raso Ganemtore
Safi’s mother dies while giving birth to her younger brother. She rescues the baby and escapes to
the city where she discovers the amazing strength and solidarity that exists at times of hardship.
African Shorts Mon 14 8pm Amphi
African Shorts Fri 18 8pm Amphi
Sand
SA
English
2min
Dir: Justine Puren
An imaginative animated short painting a poignant, poetic picture of the exploitation of and
conflict over land.
SA Shorts 1 Sat 12 12noon FAWU
SA Shorts 1 Sat 12 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Wed 16 8pm Amphi
SA Shorts 1 Sat 19 12.45pm Zolani
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 3pm FAWU
SA Shorts 1 Sun 20 8pm Amphi
Stationery
Canada
English
6min
Dir: Monica Rho
An animated piece that begins as a woman’s simple quest to find paperclips for a report due the
next morning, but develops into a witty exploration of the paradoxes of modern life.
International Shorts Tue 15 8pm Amphi
International Shorts Sat 19 8pm Amphi
Whole: A Trinity of Being
SA/USA
English
16min
Dir: Shelley Barry
A collection of deeply personal experimental shorts celebrating sexuality, love and survival from
the perspective of a woman confined to a wheelchair.
Dark Shorts Sat 19 8.30pm CN6
Dark Shorts Sun 20 5.30pm CN6
Schedule of all shorts
SA Shorts 1
Fugitive Pieces
Bloedgrond
Bluegum Road
Calculating Love
Modder Koffie
Sand
SA Shorts 2
African Middle Weight/ Africains Poids Moyen
Another Life
Beyond Freedom
Killer October
Riding with Sugar
What Goes around Comes Around
African Shorts
For the Night/ Pour la nuit
Kounandi
Safi, the little mother
International Shorts
John and Michael
Nothing Special
Aria
Kitchen
The Man Who Met Himself
Moonglow / Schijn van de Maan
Remote Paradise
Stationery
Dark Shorts
And There in the Dust
Jewboy
The one that fits inside a bathtub
Rifle Road
Whole: A Trinity of Being
Artscape
AT
Fri 11 Opera House - Artscape
7pm Tsotsi - Opening Night
Sat 12 The Theatre - Artscape
9am Someone Like Hodder
11.30am Catch that Girl
2pm Kids Shorts
4.30pm Golden Blaze
7pm Delwende
9.30pm Season of the Horse
Sun 13
9am Wallah Be
11.30am The Boy Who Wanted to be a Bear
2pm Little Big Girl
4.30pm All the Invisible Children
7pm The Sleeping Child
9.30pm Bal Can Can
Mon 14
4pm Duck Season
6.30pm Le Grand Voyage
9pm Buffalo Boy
Tue 15
6.30pm Zulu Love Letter
9pm The Edukators
Wed 16
6.30pm Coldwater
9pm Private
Thu 17
6.30pm Wah-Wah
9pm The Hero
Fri 18
6.30pm Samaritan Girl
9pm The Constant Gardener
Sat 19
Awards Evening
Sun 20
10am The Emperor's Journey
12.30pm Season of the Horse
3.30pm Factotum
6.30pm A History of Violence
9pm Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
(Presented by: Die Burger
Labia On Orange - Screen 1
LO1
Sat 12 Screen 1
12 noon Dot the I
2.30pm Under the Moonlight
5.30pm King Leopold's Ghost
8.15pm The Colonial Misunderstandings
10.45pm Three... Extremes
Sun 13
12 noon Ouaga Saga
2.30pm Definition of Freedom
5.30pm The Govenor's New Clothes
8.30pm Live and Become
Mon 14
3pm The Price of Forgiveness
5.30pm Live and Become
9pm Bal Can Can
Tue 15
3pm Masai: The Rain Warriors
5.45pm Paradise Girls
8.30pm Shooting Dogs
Wed 16
3pm Under the Moonlight
5.30pm The Passion of Joshua the Jew
8.15pm Dollars and White Pipes
Thur 17
3pm Private
5.30pm Liberia - A Fragile Peace
7.45pm Turn Left at the End of the World
Fri 18
3pm Duck Season
5.30pm Wah-Wah
8.15pm Bluebird
10.45pm Come into the Light
Sat 19
12 noon 3-Iron
2.15pm Samaritan Girl
4.30pm Mater Natura
7pm Tsotsi
10pm Let's Hit the Streets
Sun 20
12 noon Rize
2.45pm Sometimes in April
6pm The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
8.15pm 2046
Labia On Orange - Screen 3
LO3
Sat 12 Screen 3
No screening
3pm Murderball
5.30pm Four for None
8pm Frozen Land
10.45pm Inside Deep Throat
Sun 13
No screening
2pm Frozen Land
5.30pm Rabbit on the Moon
8pm 3-Iron
Mon 14
3pm Rabbit on the Moon
5.45pm Hawaii, Oslo
8.30pm Inside Deep Throat
Tue 15
3pm The Governor's New Clothes
5.30pm The Flyer
8pm Amu
Wed 16
3pm The Murmuring Coast
5.30pm Hari Om
8pm Palermo Hollywood
Thur 17
3pm Zulu Love Letter
5.45pm Yasmin
7.45pm Four for None
Fri 18
No screening
5.30pm Delwende
8pm Whisky
10.45pm Dumplings
Sat 19
No screening
2pm Dot the I
4.15pm The Edukators
7.30pm Uno
No screening
Sun 20
No screening
2.30pm Bal Can Can
4.30pm The Hero
7.45pm A Hole in My Heart
Labia On Orange - Screen 4
LO4
Sat 12 Screen 4
12 noon Old Boy
2.15pm Shanghai Dreams
5pm The Murmuring Coast
7.30pm Madam Brouette
10.30pm Dumplings
Sun 13
12 noon Hari Om
2.30pm Shanghai Dreams
5.30pm Delwende
8pm A Hole in My Heart
Mon 14
3pm Ali Zaoua
5.45pm Murderball
7.45pm Paradise Now
Tue 15
3pm Buffalo Boy
5.45pm Palermo Hollywood
8.15pm Suddenly
Wed 16
3pm The Edukators
6.00pm Dot the I
7.45pm Bullet Boy
Thur 17
3pm Crazy Monkey
5.45pm U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
9pm 3-Iron
Fri 18
3pm Uno
5.15pm The Hero
8.15pm The Polish Bride
10.15pm A Hole in My Heart
Sat 19
12 noon Love + Hate
2.15pm Moolade
4.45pm Bullet Boy
7.15pm The Constant Gardener
10.15pm Dumplings
Sun 20
12 noon Walk-the-Line
2pm Clean
4.30pm When Do the Girls Show Up?
8pm Wah-Wah
Cinema Nouveau 4
CN4
Sat 12
11.45am Bullet Boy
2.15pm Pieces of Identity
5pm 2046
7.30pm The Forest
10.30pm Lord of War
Sun 13
11.45am Tilai
2.15pm Unfinished Life
5pm Factotum
7.30pm Water
Mon 14
2.15pm King Leopold's Ghost
5pm Shooting Dogs
7.30pm Moolade
Tue 15
2.15pm Mountain of Light
5pm The Mothers' House
7.30pm Scent of Oak
Wed 16
2.15pm Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
5pm Sometimes in April
8.15pm Good Night, And Good Luck
Thu 17
2.15pm Thumbsucker
5pm Old Boy
7.30pm Hustle & Flow
Fri 18
2.15pm Moolade
5pm King Leopold's Ghost
7.30pm Broken Flowers
10.30pm Walk-the-Line
Sat 19
11.45am A Child's Love Story
2.15pm Conversations on a Sunday
Afternoon
5pm The Flyer
7.30pm Walk-the-Line
10.30pm 2046
Sun 20
11.45am Frozen Land
2.15pm Turn Left at the End of the World
5pm The Constant Gardener
7.30pm Lord of War
Cinema Nouveau 5
CN5
Sat 12
12.15pm Amu
2.30pm Clean
5.15pm Good Night, And Good Luck
8pm Faith's Corner
10pm Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Sun 13
12.15pm Whisky
2.45pm Thumbsucker
5.15pm Suddenly
8pm Four For None
Mon 14
2.30pm Water
5.15pm Where the Truth Lies
8pm Buud Yam
Tue 15
2.30pm Where the Truth Lies
5.15pm The Passion of Joshua the Jew
8pm Mater Natura
Wed 16
2.30pm Whisky
5.15pm Uno
8pm Manderlay
Thur 17
2.30pm Lord of War
5.15pm Hawaii, Oslo
8pm Faith’s Corner
Fri 18
2.30pm Unfinished Life
5.15pm Rize
8pm Gettin' Square
10pm Manderlay
Sat 19
12.15pm The Murmuring Coast
2.30pm Manderlay
5.15pm Turn Left at the End of the World
8pm Le Grand Voyage
10pm Duck Season
Sun 20
12.15pm Le Grand Voyage
2.30pm Live and Become
5.15pm Good Night, And Good Luck
8pm Broken Flowers
Cinema Nouveau 4
Cinema Nouveau 6
CN6
CN5
Sat 12
12 noon Rabbit on the Moon
2.45pm Masai: The Rain Warriors
5.30pm Al'leessi: An African Actress
8.15pm Angola - Suadades From the One Who...
10.15pm Broken Flowers
Sun 13
12 noon The Emperor's Journey
2.45pm Le Jardin de Papa
5.30pm A Child's Love Story
8.15pm Let's Hit the Streets
Mon 14
2.45pm Three Times Two
5.30pm Al'leessi: An African Actress
8.15pm Season of the Horse
Tue 15
2.45pm Three... Extremes
5.30pm The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
8.15pm Sambizanga
Wed 16
2.45pm My Footsteps in Baragua
5.30pm Rebels
8.15pm For Better or For Worse
Thur 17
2.45pm The Sleeping Child
5.30pm Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon
8.15pm Come into the Light
Fri 18
2.45pm Le Jardin de Papa
5.30pm For Better or For Worse
8.15pm The Emperor's Journey
10.15pm The Mothers' House
Sat 19
12 noon Hip Hop Colony:
The African Hip Hop Explosion
2.45pm Palermo Hollywood
5.30pm Sometimes in April
8.30pm Dark Shorts
10.30pm Factotum
Sun 20
12 noon Liberia - A Fragile Peace
2.45pm Angola - Suadades From the One Who...
5.30pm Dark Shorts
8.15pm Hustle & Flow
V&A Amphitheatre
Amphi
Sat 12
8pm SA Shorts 1
Sun 13
8pm SA Shorts 2
Mon 14
8pm African Shorts
Tue 15
8pm International Shorts
Wed 16
8pm SA Shorts 1
Thur 17
8pm SA Shorts 2
Fri 18
8pm African Shorts
Sat 19
8pm International Shorts
Sun 20
8pm SA Shorts 1
Kismet, Athlone
Kismet
Sat 12 Kismet, Athlone
6pm Paradise Now
8.30pm Yasmin
Sun 13
6pm Murderball
8pm Inside Deep Throat
Sat 19
6pm Rize
8pm Water
Sun 20
6pm Coldwater
8.30pm The Sleeping Child
Cinemax, Mitchell’s Plain
CMax
Sat 12 Cinemax, Mitchell's Plain
3pm Hip Hop Colony:
The African Hip Hop Explosion
5pm Let's Hit the Streets
7.15pm Definition of Freedom
Sun 13
6pm Yasmin
8pm Love & Hate
Sat 19
3pm The Governor's New Clothes
6pm Where the Truth Lies
8.30pm Coldwater
Sun 20
12 noon Amu
3.15pm Paradise Now
5.30pm Shooting Dogs
Cinemax, Mitchell's Plain
F.A.W.U. Hall, Gugulethu
FAWU
Sat 12 F.A.W.U. Hall, Gugulethu
12 noon SA Shorts 1
2pm Homecoming
5.15pm Tsotsi
Sun 13
3pm Faith's Corner
5.30pm The Lion of Soweto
Tue 15
2pm Ouaga Saga
4.30pm Liberia - A Fragile Peace
Thur 17
2pm Dollars And White Pipes
4.30pm Bullet Boy
Sat 19
1pm The Twelve Disciples of
Nelson Mandela
3.30pm Zulu Love Letter
6pm U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
Sun 20
3pm SA Shorts 1
5pm Definition of Freedom
Zolani Multi-Purpose Centre, Nyanga
ZH
Sat 12 Zolani Centre, Nyanga
No screening
Sat 19
12.45pm SA Shorts 1
2.45pm The Lion of Soweto
5.30pm Bullet Boy
Sun 20
1pm Conversations on a
Sunday Afternoon
3.30pm Zulu Love Letter
6.15pm Homecoming
Zolani Multi-Purpose Centre,
yanga ZH
All details correct at time of going to press
106
2046 ..........................................................34
3-Iron.........................................................34
9 Drawings for Projection.........................20
African Middleweights.............................94
Al'leessi: An African Actress ...................82
Ali Zaoua ..................................................64
All the Invisible Children ..........................19
Amu...........................................................35
And There in the Dust ..............................94
Angola - Saudades from the one
who loves you...........................................83
Another Life ..............................................94
Aria ...........................................................96
Bal Can Can ..............................................20
Beyond Freedom.......................................94
Bloedgrond................................................96
Bluebird.....................................................35
Bluegum Road ..........................................96
Broken Flowers .........................................36
Buffalo Boy ...............................................21
Bullet Boy .................................................36
Buud Yam..................................................64
Calculating Love .......................................96
Catch That Girl..........................................77
Child's love story, A..................................37
Clean.........................................................37
Coldwater .................................................22
Colonial Misunderstanding, The ..............89
Come into the Light ..................................38
Constant Gardener, The............................38
Conversations of a Sunday Afternoon .....39
Crazy Monkey ...........................................70
Definition of Freedom...............................89
Delwende..................................................23
Dollars and White Pipes...........................70
Dot the I....................................................39
Duck Season.............................................24
Dumplings.................................................72
Edukators, The ..........................................25
Emperor's Journey, The ............................90
Factotum ...................................................40
Faith's Corner ..........................................40
Flyer, The...................................................71
For Better for Worse.................................84
For the Night.............................................94
Forest, The ................................................65
Four for None............................................41
Frozen Land...............................................41
Fugitive Pieces..........................................94
Getting Squared .......................................42
Golden Blaze.............................................77
Good Night, And Good Luck.....................42
Governor's new Clothes, The ...................43
Grand Voyage, Le......................................26
Hari Om.....................................................43
Hawaii, Oslo .............................................44
Hero, the ...................................................27
Hip Hop Colony: The African Hip Hop
Explosion...................................................90
History Of Violence, A ..............................44
Hole in my Heart, A..................................73
Home Coming ..........................................71
Hustle & Flow...........................................45
Inside Deep Throat ...................................91
Jardin de Papa, Le....................................45
Jewboy .....................................................95
John and Michael.....................................95
Killer October............................................95
King Leopold's Ghost................................91
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.................................46
Kitchen......................................................96
Kounandi...................................................96
Let's Hit the Streets .................................85
Liberia - A Fragile Peace ..........................92
Lion of Soweto, The .................................46
Little Big Girl.............................................78
Index Film - English Title
107
Live and become.......................................47
Lord of War...............................................47
Love + Hate...............................................68
Madame Brouette ....................................65
Mama Jack...............................................48
Man who met himself, The .....................97
Manderlay.................................................48
Masai: The rain warriors..........................49
Mater Natura ...........................................49
Modder Koffie ..........................................97
Moolade/Protection..................................50
Moonglow.................................................97
Mountain of Light.....................................74
Murderball ................................................92
Murmuring Coast, The..............................50
My Dad is a Champ..................................78
My Footsteps in Baragua .........................74
My Mothers' House..................................86
Nothing Special ........................................95
Old Boy .....................................................51
One that fits inside the bathtub, The.......95
Ouaga saga...............................................51
Palermo Hollywood ..................................52
Paradise Girls ...........................................52
Paradise Now ...........................................69
Passion of Joshua, the Jew, The .............53
Pieces of Identity......................................66
Polish Bride, The.......................................53
Price of Forgiveness, The .........................66
Private.......................................................28
Rabbit on the Moon..................................54
Rebels (Relelove) ......................................54
Remote Paradise ......................................97
Riding With Sugar ....................................95
Rifle Road .................................................97
Rize ...........................................................93
Safi, the Little Mother..............................97
Samaritan Girl ..........................................55
Sambizanga ..............................................67
Sand..........................................................98
Scent of Oak .............................................75
Season of the Horse.................................29
Shanghai Dreams .....................................55
Shooting Dogs ..........................................56
Sleeping Child, The ..................................30
Someone Like Hodder ..............................79
Sometimes in April...................................56
Stationery .................................................98
Suddenly ...................................................57
Sweethearts .............................................79
Teis & Nico ...............................................80
The Boy Who Wanted to be a Bear.........80
Three times Two.......................................75
Three… Extremes ...................................73
Thumbsucker ...........................................57
Tilai ...........................................................67
Tsotsi.........................................................31
Turn left at the end of the world..............58
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela, The ....87
U-Carmen ekhayelitsha ............................72
Under the Moonlight ................................58
Unfinished Life .........................................59
UNO ..........................................................59
Wah-Wah .................................................32
Walk the Line ...........................................60
Wallah Be .................................................81
Water........................................................60
What Goes Around Comes Around..........95
When Do the Girls Show Up? ..................61
Where the Truth Lies................................61
Whisky ......................................................62
Whole: A Trinity of Being .........................98
Yasmin ......................................................68
Zulu Love Letter........................................33
Index Film - English Title
108
2046 ..........................................................34
9 Drawings for Projection.........................20
A costa dos murmurios ...........................50
Afracains Poids-Moyens ..........................94
Al'leessi: An African Actress ...................82
Ali Zaoua ..................................................64
All the Invisible Children ..........................19
Alla luce del Sole .....................................38
Amu...........................................................35
And There in the Dust ..............................94
Angola - Saudades from the one
who loves you...........................................83
Another Life ..............................................94
Aria ...........................................................96
Bal Can Can ..............................................20
Beyond Freedom.......................................94
Bin-jip........................................................34
Bloedgrond................................................96
Bluebird.....................................................35
Bluegum Road ..........................................96
Broken Flowers .........................................36
Bror min Bror ............................................80
Bullet Boy .................................................36
Buud Yam..................................................64
Calculating Love .......................................96
Clean.........................................................37
Colonial Misunderstanding, The ..............89
Conejo en la Luna.....................................54
Constant Gardener, The............................38
Conversations of a Sunday Afternoon .....39
Crazy Monkey ...........................................70
Definition of Freedom...............................89
Delwende..................................................23
Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei ....................25
Dollars and White Pipes...........................70
Dot the I....................................................39
Drengen Der Ville Gøre Det Umulige.......80
Dumplings.................................................72
En Som Hodder.........................................79
Ett hål I Mitt Hjärta ..................................73
Factotum ...................................................40
Faith's Corner ..........................................40
Flyer, the ...................................................71
For Better for Worse.................................84
Frozen Land...............................................41
Fugitive Pieces..........................................94
Getting Squared .......................................42
Golden Blaze.............................................77
Good Night, And Good Luck.....................42
Grand Voyage, Le......................................26
Hari Om.....................................................43
Hawaii, Oslo .............................................44
Hip Hop Colony: The African Hip Hop
Explosion...................................................90
History Of Violence, A ..............................44
Home Coming ..........................................71
Hustle & Flow...........................................45
Inside Deep Throat ...................................91
Jardin de Papa, Le....................................45
Jewboy .....................................................95
Ji feng zhang de ma.................................29
John and Michael.....................................95
Kald Mig Bare Aksel.................................81
Killer October............................................95
King Leopold's Ghost................................91
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.................................46
Kitchen......................................................96
Klatreøsen.................................................77
Kounandi...................................................96
L'Enfant endormi.......................................30
Le Silence de la Fôret...............................65
Les Habits Neuf de Gouverneur...............43
Let's Hit the Streets .................................85
Liberia - A Fragile Peace ..........................92
Live and become.......................................47
Lord of War...............................................47
Index Film - Original Title
109
Los Hijos del Baraghua.............................74
Love + Hate...............................................68
Ma Quando Arrivano Ragazze? ................61
Madame Brouette ....................................65
Mama Jack...............................................48
Man who met himself, The .....................97
Manderlay.................................................48
Marche de l'empereur, La ........................90
Masai: The rain warriors..........................49
Mater Natura ...........................................49
Min Far Er Bokser .....................................78
Modder Koffie ..........................................97
Montana de Luz........................................74
Moolade/Protection..................................50
Muoa len trau ..........................................21
Murderball ................................................92
My Mothers' House..................................86
Nothing Special ........................................95
O diabo a quatro.......................................41
O Heroi......................................................27
Old Boy .....................................................51
One that fits inside the bathtub, The.......95
Ouaga saga...............................................51
Palermo Hollywood ..................................52
Paradise Girls ...........................................52
Paradise Now ...........................................69
Passione di Giosue l'ebreo, La .................53
Pieces of Identity......................................66
Polish Bride, The.......................................53
Pour la nuit ...............................................94
Price of Forgiveness, The .........................66
Private.......................................................28
Rebels (Relelove) ......................................54
Remote Paradise ......................................97
Riding With Sugar ....................................95
Rifle Road .................................................97
Rize ...........................................................93
Roble de Olor ...........................................75
Sabah........................................................22
Safi, the Little Mother..............................97
Samaria.....................................................55
Sambizanga ..............................................67
Sand..........................................................98
Schijn van de Maan..................................97
Shanghai Dreams .....................................55
Shooting Dogs ..........................................56
Sk'a Vi Vaere Kaerster?............................79
Sof Ha'Olam Smola ..................................58
Sometimes in April...................................56
Sous le Clarte de la Lune .........................58
Stationery .................................................98
Tan de Repente.........................................57
Tau ya Soweto..........................................46
Temporada de patos.................................24
Three… Extremes ...................................73
Thumbsucker ...........................................57
Tilai ...........................................................67
Tres veces Dos..........................................75
Tsotsi.........................................................31
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela, The87
U-Carmen ekhayelitsha ............................72
Ulvepigen Tinke ........................................78
Un Amour d`enfant...................................37
Unfinished Life .........................................59
UNO ..........................................................59
Wah-Wah .................................................32
Walk the Line ...........................................60
Water........................................................60
What Goes Around Comes Around..........95
Where the Truth Lies................................61
Whisky ......................................................62
Whole: A Trinity of Being .........................98
Yasmin ......................................................68
Zulu Love Letter........................................33
Index Film - Original Title
Absa, Moussa Sene..........65
Abu-Assad, Hany .............69
Andersen, Jon Andreas ....59
Andrei, Massimo...............49
Assayas, Olivier ...............37
Avati, Pupi .........................61
Avni, Shira ........................95
Ayouch, Nabil....................64
Ba Khobio, Bassek ............65
Bailey, Fenton ...................91
Barbato, Randy .................91
Barry, Shelley ...................98
Beye, Ben Diogaye ...........37
Bharat, Ganapathy ............43
Black, Shane ....................46
Boni-Claverie, Isabelle .....94
Bose, Shonali ...................35
Bovin, Pia .........................81
Brewer, Craig ...................45
Brooks, Helena .................95
Cai, Ning ..........................29
Cardoso, Margarida .........50
Carson, Bryon E. ...............77
Caton-Jones, Michael ......56
Cattier, Daniel ..................94
Centeno, Guillermo ..........74
Chan, Fruit ........................72
Chan, Fruit ........................73
Charef, Mehdi ...................18
Christina Beattie, .............94
Clarence, Trevor ................70
Clooney, George ...............42
Costanzo, Saverio ............28
Cronenberg, David ...........44
Crowe, Ben .......................97
De Andrade, Alice ............41
de Jong, Mijke .................35
Dibb, Saul .........................36
Dornford-May, Mark ........72
du Toit, Kevin ...................46
Egoyan, Atom ...................61
Eimbcke, Fernando ...........24
Faenza, Roberto ...............38
Ferroukhi, Ismael ..............26
Foot-Newton, Lara ............94
Fox, Revel .........................71
Gamboa, Zeze ..................27
Ganemtore, Raso ..............97
Genz, Henrik Ruben .........80
Ghesquiere, Peter .............97
Giese, Morten ..................78
Giroud, Pavel ....................75
Glenaan, Kenny ................68
Gonera, Sunu ...................95
Grant, Richard E. ..............32
Griehsel, Marika ...............84
Hallstrom, Lasse ..............59
Hamer, Bent .....................40
Harris, Thomas Allen .......87
Hastrup, Jannik ................80
Hennie, Aksel....................59
Hood, Gavin ......................31
Jaquet, Luc .......................90
Jarmusch, Jim ..................36
Kabore, Gaston .................64
Kar-wai, Wong .................34
Kassari, Yasmine ..............30
Keïta, Rahmatou ..............82
Kentridge, William............20
Ki-Duk, Kim ......................55
Køhlert, Morten ................78
Kouyate, Dani....................51
Krawitz, Tony ....................95
Kusturica, Emir..................18
Laband, Zoe ......................96
LaChapelle, David ............93
Laplaine, Zeka ..................45
Larsen, Birger ...................79
Lee, Spike..........................18
Lerman, Diego ..................57
Lopez, Rigoberto ...............75
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Lorenz, Nicole ...................96
Louhimies, Aku .................41
Lund, Katia ........................19
Maake, Norman ...............71
Mackay, Sharmin ..............89
Maldoror, Sarah ................67
Mangold, James ...............60
Marsh, Donovan ...............70
Marx, Gerhard...................94
Matabane, Khalo .............39
Mehta, Deepa ..................60
Meinert, David .................96
Meirelles, Fernando .........38
Melvill-Smith, Brett .........97
Meyer, Garth ....................95
Mihaileanu, Radu .............47
Mills, Mike .......................57
Mitrevski, Darko................20
Moodysson, Lukas ...........73
Mvumvu, Thabo ...............95
Nadda, Ruba .....................22
Nesher, Avi .......................58
Ngangura, Mweze ...........43
Ngangura , Mweze ...........66
Nguyen-Vo, Minh ..............21
Niccol, Andrew .................47
Noce, Claudio....................96
Omotoso, Akin...................97
Orderson, Kurt ..................89
Ouedraogo, Idrissa............67
Pakleppa, Richard ............83
Park, Chan-wook ...............51
Parkhill, Matthew ............39
Peck, Raoul .......................56
Pinto, Eduardo ..................52
Plisson, Pascal .................49
Poppe, Erik .......................44
Prinsloo, Hanli...................84
Puren, Justine ...................98
Pyng Hu, Fow ....................52
Raeburn, Michael .............85
Ramiraz-Suarez, Jorge .....54
Rebella, Juan Pablo .........62
Renc, Filip..........................54
Rho, Monica .....................98
Rolando, Gloria ................74
Roodt, Darrel ....................40
Ross, Steven ....................92
Rubin, Henry Alex ............92
Savage, Dominic ..............68
Schuster, Leon ..................48
Scimera, Pasquale ...........53
Scott, Jordan.....................19
Scott, Ridley......................19
Scott, Pippa ......................91
Sembene, Ousmane..........50
Shapiro, Dana Adam ........92
Smith, Inger ......................95
sora Wade, Mansour ........66
Stanford, Simon ................84
Stoll, Pablo........................62
Suleman, Ramadan ..........33
Takashi, Miike ..................73
Teno, Jean-Marie .............89
Teplitzky, Jonathan ..........42
Traidia, Karim ....................53
Traore, Apolline ................96
Traore, Apolline ................58
Tremblay, Frederick ...........97
Trowell, Jacquie................94
Veneruso, Stefano.............19
Verster, Francois ...............86
Vogt, Verushka ..................94
von Trier, Lars....................48
Wanguhu, Michael ..........90
Weingartner, Hans ...........25
Wincour, Alice ..................96
Woo, John.........................19
Wullenweber, Hans Fabian 77
Xiaoshuai, Wang ..............55
Yameogo, S. Pierre ..........23
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