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Program
Focus Africa # 1
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October 6th, 2011 / 8 pm
Résidence Lucien Paye
Cité Universitaire / Paris
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Teboho Edkins
South Africa
2011 | Digital | 0:27:50
Portrait of a pregnant South African woman expecting her second child. Throughout the entire film, her face betrays her fear of the baby succumbing to AIDS like her first-born. From frantic hope to redemptive tears, her emotions are similar to the landscape featured in the film, evolving with the seasons – a metaphor of the destiny of a continent undergoing a profound change.
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Mwansa the Great |
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Rungano Nyoni
Zambia, Great Britain
2011 | Digital | 0:23:00
While trying to prove he is a hero, Mwansa does the unforgivable and accidentally breaks his big sister Shula's special mud doll. He goes on a quest not only to fix it, but to finally prove he is Mwansa, The Great.
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Those who eat woods |
Ceux qui mangent le bois |
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Reza Serkanian
France, Gabon
2008 | Digital| 0:50:00
From the city to the Gabonese bush, Alexandra, French journalist, describes and details a society in turmoil. At the same time, an industrial concern cut sacred trees. These are the trees of "those who eat wood".
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October 5th - 16th 2011
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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