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Program
Focus Africa # 1
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Saturday June 20th, 2009 / 4 pm
Mairie du Xème
Paris
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Aicha |
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Newton I. Aduaka
Nigeria, Senegal, France
2004 / 0:13:00
The story of a man in an African city. In the heat of the night he meets a woman, unknown with a subjugating charm, who came back for just one night to haunt the world of the living!
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At the middle of the earth, wells and men |
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Ingrid Patetta
Niger
2008 / 0:25:00
Standing on the edge of a well, a man has a rudimentary harness. Camera in hand, he dives and there began a dizzying descent, joined two men who work at the center of the earth. We have to penetrate in the world of traditional puisatier in the lands of Niger. Filmed in the desert countryside of the country, the film reveals the expertise of these men who fight against the sand to reach water and the impact of
desertification on the pastoralist community.
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First Elections |
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Sarah Vanagt
Belgium, Congo
2006 / 0:15:00
Democratic Republic of Congo. A group of children have fun anticipating the first democratic elections since the independence. They imitate political speech, violent and caricatural, with which they grew. This game becomes a barometer of the political situation between the DRC and Rwanda.
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Kinshasa 2.0 |
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Teboho Edkins
South Africa
2007 / 0:11:00
The relationship between the internet, the virtual spaces of "Second Life" and democracy are explored in this short film inspired by the arrest of Marie-Thérèse Nlandu, a lawyer at the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic of Congo and leader of the Party for Peace in Congo. An investigation into the effects of the arrest on the family, with Carine, Marie-Thérèse's niece.
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Le cri de la mer |
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Aicha Thiam
Senegal, Belgium
2008 / 0:26:00
Le Cri de la Mer is the struggle of a mother Yaye Bayam Diouf, who lost his only son in a boat bound, destination: the Canary Islands. Today Thiaroye-sur-mer, her neighborhood, her life is devoted to the fight against illegal immigration. Le Cri de la Mer is also a cry from the heart, a singular light on a scourge that carried away more than 3000 young Senegalese.
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Nora |
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David Hinton, Alla Kovgan
United States, Mozambique, Great Britain
2008 / 0:36:00
An intense visual poem that tells the moving story of a young dancer originally from Zimbabwe.
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Ra,The Réparatrice |
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Mamadou Cissé
Mali
2007 / 0:25:00
BIn Bamako, Ra, a girl of twenty-five years, exercices a " man business": she repairs generators and works following the rithm of seasons. Ra grants also great importance to social relations: she encapsulates young girls from twelve to fifteen years old and participates to activities organized by the girls of the neighborhood. The young Kaba recycles generators to make crockery utensils. The wedding day of Ra,we will find the gifts given by her girl friend Kadi from recycling parts of generators sold by the young Kaba.
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Above all, Smile |
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Fatou Jupiter Touré
Senegal, Belgium
2006 / 0:08:00
It is by chance that I met Maymunah when I was lost in a bus station. Her spontaneity and freedom made me curious.Gradually a real friendship is born between us. Thereafter, I wanted to film the time of a day at the station in turmoil, as close as possible to reality, to try to capture what makes it so special and appealing to my eyes. Unfortunately, it was a partyshe was gone.
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April 2th - 5th, 2009 /
June 17th - 28th, 2009
We present film series focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition, as an act of resistance in the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes..
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