Date October 16
Start 18:00 hrs
End 19:45 hrs
Location BINK36, BINK BIOS
Price
€ 7 - Tarief 7
In collaboration with Africa in the Picture we present you a special program. Africa in the Picture is a film festival that focuses on the work of filmmakers from Africa and the African Diaspora. Every year the festival shows more than 50 recent films, documentaries and shorts, often in the presence of the filmmaker. The Africa in the Picture selection will screen at Shoot Me and The Hague Filmhuis.
Teddy Goitom & Benjamin Taft; SE/ER/ZA; 2011; 29min. ; English
Beyond the stereotypical daily reporting on violence, AIDS and safari tours, Teddy Goitom and Benjamin Taft set out on a road trip to capture the creative street vibes of South Africa. On their first stop to Capetown and Johannesburg, they meet up with the heavy metal band Ree-hurth, The Soweto Style setters Smarteez with their colourful street savy fasion to video gamers label 2bop to the limpop music genre innovator Gazelle and many many more.
Zina Saro Wiwa; Nigeria; 2010; 14min; Silent film
Phyllis is a lonely woman in Lagos, Nigeria that lives for Jesus, Dionne Warwick and Nollywood dramas. Her life defined by the attempt to escape a profound emptiness she cannot ever truly shake. Phyllis is an example of what the director, Zina Saro-Wiwa, has termed "alt-Nollywood", a new genre that plays with and reworks narrative, stylistic and visual conventions of Nigeria's Nollywood film industry.
Tim Huebschle; NA; 2011 ; 18min.; Oshiwambo; English
Simon has to work off his family's debt's. Ripped from his comfortable rural lifestyle, he travels far away to the big city. From the moment he arrives, everything seems to be against him.
Palé Sié Lazare; BF; 2011; 20min; French; English
A man goes in search of a perfect godfather for his son. Samba is doing everything to be fair and honest, but the man doesn't seem to find what he's looking for and decides to approach the gods.
Malika Banyundo; RW; 2010; 7min; Kinyarwanda; English
Comedy - Rwandan style - about a man who had a really bad day. His suicide attempts flops in a dramatic way.
Mohamed Yunus Rafiq; TZ; 2011; 33min; English & Swahili / Kiswahili; English
What is the place of art in the writing, and rewriting, of history? How does individual experience map onto these complex narratives of national histories? Can poetry create a nation? The film, Swahili Fighting Words attempts to examine these questions, through the story of one young man, his family, and the poetic battles that mark his, and potentially, the nation's understandings of Tanzanian history.
Nyaruni Zipporah ; UG/KE; 2010; 12min; English, Kiswahili & Luganda
In a close-knit fishing village, vibrant fish trade, Zebu a witty ten-year old is forced to grow up and take responsibility of taking his family out of debt. Best Director, Best Script, Best Supporting Actor at the Auteur Experimental Short Film Festival in Cape Town, South Africa. Zipporah Nyaruri is an independent filmmaker from Kenya. Currently she is into development of a feature length documentary with the development assistance from the Berlinale Doc station 2011.
Sanele Makhubu ; ZA; 2011; 11; Xitsonga, IsiZulu & English ; English
Three young Mozambican boys made their way to South African shores under very dangerous conditions. Fifteen years later, now grown men, they try to make a living the rough streets of downtown Johannesburg being illegal trolley pushers. Sanele Makhubu is a South African filmmaker of the BIGFISH School of Digital Filmmaking.
Akhe Beku; ZA; 2011; 12min; English, Zulu and Tswana ; English
Motor biking-once a mode of transport associated with machismo and rebelliousness has now undergone a true Mzansi makeover. No longer reserved for butch big burly white men, biking has stolen the hearts of many black professionals and has become a subculture of sorts.
Kwame Nyong 'o; KEnya; 2011; 10; English
The humongous and frightful ogre of the forest, who has a habit attacking the Maasai village, falls in love with the beautiful maiden Sanayian... Based on a Maasai folktale, The Legend of Ngong Hills is the creation myth of the majestic mountain range that backdrops present day Nairobi.
Daouda Coulibaly; ML; 2010; 24; Bambara & French; English
At the intersection of tradition and the modern world, Tinye So traces the quest of the ancestors as they struggle to be heard by their people.
Kim Johnson; TT; 2010 ; 13; English
A tribute to the early pen men and pan women of Trinidad and Tobago who against all odds fought for their freedom of expression through the unique and ever-evolving instrument that is the steel pan.