CINEMA AFRICA
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A selection of the best African films from the 1980's to the present
When do you ever see African films? We felt like African films were very rarely prgrammed and shown, so we thought that we would try to change that by programming a season of films from that continent.
They are all different and beautiful, opening onto another world.
The films were chosen by our very own African film expert, and the season was programmed with the support of the Institut Francais and CulturesFrance.
Films in the Cinema Africa:
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Film: Les Silences Du Palais (Tunisia) (1994)
10 Sep 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Stunningly acted, beautifully shot. A deliciously scored masterpiece.
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Film: Hyenas (Senegal) (1992)
13 Sep 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Masterful parable of greed, power and insanity.
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Film: Finzan (Mali) (1989)
17 Sep 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Two women rebel against the traditions of their village in Mali in a film by one of the key auteurs of African cinema.
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Film: Barakat! (Algeria) (2006)
20 Sep 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Set in war–torn Algeria in the 1990s, Barakat! (Enough!) follows two women on the dangerous search for the younger woman's husband, a journalist whose writings resulted in his disappearance.
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Film: Zulu Love Letter (South Africa) (2004)
24 Sep 2009, 7:30 p.m.
“There have been terrible abuses towards humanity exacted under apartheid that the film is in a position to visualise, on behalf of those who survive them. Zulu Love Letter has bravely created a new cinematic space for representing historical truths.”