Sunday 28 / 14.30

Dir: Djamila SAHRAOUI Drama – 2006, France – Algeria, French/Arabic

Somewhere in Algeria, in the years 1990. Amel is a doctor at the hospital. She tries her best to exert her job and live her life as a young woman in spite of the civil war. One evening, her husband, a journalist, has vanished. Facing the indifference and the inertia of the authorities, she decides to seek for him herself.

Saturday 28 / 13.45

Dir:  Paul Yule  South Afrika,  2008,  54 min  English

Black Star is a feature-length documentary film that pivots around the star-quality of Ghanaian Michael Essien – arguably the best midfielder in world football – as he, along with the other Black Stars, returns ‘home’ for the festival of African football that is Ghana 2008.

Sunday 28 / 18.00

Dir : Newton I. Aduaka, France/Nigeria/Austria, 2007 102 min English

In the year 2000, it was alleged that some 300,000 children were serving as soldiers in armed conflicts in more than thirty countries around the world. Nearly 120,000 of these were allegedly engaged in various conflicts on the African continent. EZRA is a factional tale inspired by the Sierra Leonean conflict. It is centred on one event: a drug fuelled atrocious attack on a village by rebel soldiers.

Faro, La Reine des Eaux

Saturday 27 / 15.00

Dir: Salif Traore 96 min France/Canada/Mali/Burkina/Germany language : Bambaraor Bamanankan

Zanga, a child born out of wedlock, is driven out of his village. After many years, he returns to find out who his father is. At the moment of his arrival, something happens that the villagers interpret as the river spirit Faro’s angry reaction to Zanga’s coming.

Friday 26 / 11.25 / 19.00

Dir.Wanuri Kahui, Kenya, 100 min, English/Kiswahili, English text

Abu (Ken Ambani) is a quiet and hardworking intelligence officer who keeps to himself. When he meets Tamani (Corrine Onyango), a young, rebellious artist in search of her mother, he decides to help.

Saturday 27 / 19.00

Dir: Jeff Stilson Co-dir/co-writer: Chris Rock USA 96 min English

 

When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl's head! Director Jeff Stilson’s camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture.

Sunday 28 / 11.00

Dir. Michel Ocelot France/Guinea 1998, 74 min, Animation.  Norwegian dub

A tiny voice is heard from inside the womb of a pregnant woman : "Mother, give birth to me !"
"A child who can speak from his mother's womb can give birth to himself", replies the mother.
And so a little boy is born, cuts his own umbilical cord and declares : "My name is Kirikou"

The tiny Kirikou is born into an African village upon which a sorceress called Karaba has cast a terrible spell: the spring has dried up, the villagers are being blackmailed, the men of the village have either been kidnapped or have mysteriously disappeared.

"She eats them !", the superstitious villagers declare….

Karaba is a stunning and cruel woman, surrounded by fearless and servile fetishes. But no sooner has Kirikou delivered himself from his mother's womb than he wants to rid the village of Karaba's curse and understand the cause of her wickedness. His adventure-filled voyage leads Kirikou to the Forbidden Mountain, where the Wise Man of the Mountain, who knows of Karaba and her secrets, awaits him.

Music by Youssou Ndour

Saturday 27 /18.00

Dir: Morton Janks, US, 2009, 44 min. English

Produced and directed by award winning documentarian and Founder/CEO of iYAGO Entertainment Janks Morton, Men II Boys is a 44-minute film featuring men from all walks of life, delivering words of wisdom or jewels, as a resource for boys and young men of color as they ascend to manhood. The film stems from the fact that over 82% of black children, born since 1990, do not have daily contact with their biological fathers.

Friday 26 / 18.00

Dir: Ousmane William Mbaye (SEN), 2008, 55 min. French/Wollof. English text

Senegal’s first journalist, now 82 rainy seasons old, Annette Mbaye d’Erneville has been very early, concerned by the development of her country. Militant from the first hours of the woman's emancipation cause, she has been a pioneer activist and anti-conformist.

Thursday 25 / 18.25

Dir: Owen Alik Shahadah, 120 min, English

Motherland (Enat Hager) is a bold, epic documentary through Africa with a distinctive African voice. Fusing history, culture, politics, Motherland sweeps across Africa to tell a new dynamic story of a continent. From the glory and majesty of Africa’s past through its complex and present history. Motherland looks unflinchingly toward a positive Pan-African future. With breathtaking cinematography and a fluid soundtrack sculpted by Sona Jobarteh.

Sunday 28 / 12:30

Dir: Madoda Ncayiyana, South Africa, 90 min,  Zulu, English text

Ten-year-old Thembi and her eight-year-old brother, Khwezi, are left alone in their rural homestead when their mother dies. All they have to remember Mama is a grass mat she wove, which she aimed to enter in a craft competition. Her dream, inspired by a visit to their village by a white priest from the city, was for the mat to win a prize that could support her children.

Saturday 27 / 12.00

Dir: - Antonio Carlos Muricy 70 minutes. Brazil.

The film tells the story of the most important Capoeira master in the 20th century, known as "The Capoeira Angola Guardian", and also known as "The Capoeira Poet" - Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, the legendary Master Pastinha.

Thursday 25 / 18.00 – Friday 26 / 11.00

Dir.Wanuri Kahui Kenya 22 min 2009

A 20 min Sc-Fi film about futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III “The Water War”. Asha is a curator at a virtual natural history museum in the Maitu Community located in the Eastern African territory. Outside of the community, all nature is extinct. When she receives a box in the mail containing soil, she decides to plant a seed in it. The seed starts to germinate instantly.

Saturday 27 / 20.45

Dir: Ishmahil  Jamaica 57 min Engelsk

Filmed in Jamaica, Roaring Lion charts the growth and development of the Rastafarian Movement and its founder, the former Garveyite Leonard Howell.

Sunday 28 / 16.15

Dir: Florence Ayisi. Kam/UK 2006 87 min English

Women's passion for soccer transcends gender boundaries and challenges the traditional image of women in Zanzibar, a predominantly Muslim society.

The film presents a provocative and timely portrait of WOMEN FIGHTERS, a team of strong-willed women determined to better their lives and define new identities through playing football. Despite opposition and limited facilities, the women succeed to play the game they love, and their challenging viewpoints are signs of changing times on this exotic Island in East Africa.