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The 9th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris


October 5th - 16th 2011
Cinéma La Clef
Institut Finlandais
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Program
Focus Africa # 2
October 6th, 2011 / 10 pm
Résidence Lucien Paye
Cité Universitaire / Paris

 

Drexciya
Drexciya


Akosua Adoma Owusu
Ghana, USA
2011 | Digital | 0:12:00

A portrait of an abandoned public swimming facility located in Accra, Ghana. The Riviera was once known as Ghana's first pleasure beach. A one-time extravagant Ambassador Hotel of post-colonial - early Kwame Nkrumah era, the Riviera Beach Club thrived until the mid-1970's. The Olympic sized pool, now in a dilapidated state, is used for locals for things other than swimming. Inspired by the myth of a Detroit electronic bands, Drexciya & Underground Resistance.







 


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Sinema Leo
Sinema Leo

Christiane Buchmann, Frank Schumacher
Germany
2010 | Digital | 0:04:00

Elisonguo Kiwia loves movies and he dreams of a good film ministery in his home country Tanzania. Everybody thinks he is crazy, because Kiwia's only interest is to go out to the countryside and show films - for free! He not only feels like a projectionist. He really wants to reach his audience. Even if this means that Kiwia has to do dangerous roadtrips...

 





 

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Goodbye Mandina
Kwa Heri Mandima


Robert-Jan Lacombe
Switzerland
2010 | Digital | 0:10:30

"Kwa Heri Mandima" (Goodbye Mandima), Pardino gold in Locarno, is approaching genres of documentary and experimental. Its author Robert-Jan Lacombe portrays intimate and poignant on the theme of rootlessness. "Through the rediscovery of a long archival images stored in Bordeaux with my grand parents, I tell my childhood in Mandima, a small village in north-eastern Zaire, where I was born. Ffrom a panoramic picture of the great start, I look back and observe, picture after picture, these first 10 years of the little boy who must one day go elsewhere to the city and school. Behind, he left his friends and a whole culture. Life, its mentality, its rules, will be relearning."

 





 


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Between Heaven and Earth
Zwischen Himmel und Erde
Zwischen Himmel und Erde


York-Fabian Raabe
Germany
2010 | Digital | 0:15:00

Born and raised in a township at the Ivory Coast the brothers Koroballa and Tiemogo experience the beauty and the terribleness of Ivorian life. The death of their father and the lack of prospects initiate Koroballa's plan to leave his country. One night not knowing that Tiemogo is following him he sneaks into his secret getaway place, a landing gear of a plane. Before he even notices, Tiemogo and himself are trapped and his brother is not prepared at all. A story about brotherhood, freedom and the desire for a better future begins.

 





 


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Gangster Project
Gangster Project


Teboho Edkins
South Africa , Germany
2011 | Digital | 1:00:00

As the title indicates, Teboho Edkins first dreamt of a “gangster film.” In Cape Town, no need for a actors, says the apprentice filmmaker, they’re a dime a dozen, you should just need a good casting. And here he is accompanied by his sound engineer looking for their actors. From meetings in remote areas on the outskirts of the city, with a disturbing reputation, in nocturnal car rides in red-light districts, the filmmaker imitates Hollywood legends in order to try to enlist them. But little by little the images disintegrate. Stories of some in prison, others who remember a murdered friend. Fear, mourning, boredom and petty dealings are a distant cry from the expected flamboyant figures. Behind the myths, everyday realities turn out to be trivial. What to do? To link together the two will be the daring response: mixing acted scenes with documentary shots, without it being too obvious, since here posturing is acceptable.

 





 


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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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