African In Motion
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Africa In Motion
Events in the African In Motion festival:
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Film: African In Motion: As Old As My Tongue + Live Music! (2007)
10 Dec 2008, 7 p.m.
Film: As Old as My Tongue about the remarkable story of the oldest singer in the world, Zanzibari legend Bi Kidude. Followed by live Music from Sierra leone!
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Event: Africa In Motion: Reel Lives (Family Screening)
11 Dec 2008, 4 p.m.
Post-school family session (free event open to all)
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Film: Africa In Motion: Ezra (2007)
11 Dec 2008, 7 p.m.
In the year 2000, it was estimated that some 300,000 children were serving as soldiers in armed conflicts in more than thirty countries around the world. Inspired by his own war-torn upbringing, Aduaka's film is the story of seven year-old Ezra, who is kidnapped by rebels on the way to school.
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Film: Africa In Motion: International Interactive Film Workshop
14 Dec 2008, 2 p.m.
Join Star & Shadow film makers Christo Waller & Andy Jones in a live link up with South African documentary maker Mayenzeke Baza and a team of young film producers from Mandela Bay Pictures for an afternoon of experimentation with multimedia film technology including mobile phone & flip cameras.
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Film: Africa In Motion: Clouds Over Conakry (2007)
14 Dec 2008, 5 p.m.
Guinean filmmaker Cheick Fantamady Camara's debut feature proposes a romantic twist on the recurrent tradition-versus-modernity theme of African cinema, as a lovestruck cartoonist learns the spirits have chosen him instead of his religious older brother to succeed his father as imam of Guinea's capital, Conakry.
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Film: Africa In Motion: Sms Sugar Man (2006)
14 Dec 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Johannesburg - an evil ugly city on a Christmas Eve. This is the turf of the lonely and the damned and no more damned can they be than Sugar Man (Kaganof) cruising the streets in his Automatic 1966 Valiant 200, continually on his mobile phone, peddling his girls to wealthy black punters.