The Royal African Society's Anual Film Festival - 1-10 November 2013 - FILM AFRICA

Film Africa 2013 - 1 - 10 November 2013 - www.filmafrica.org.uk We're just three weeks away from Film Africa 2013! And you can now book tickets for all films, at all participating venues of the festival! We invite you to experience the most riveting of contemporary African film, alongside classics of the African screen during the ten days of film Africa. From Friday 1st November till Friday 10th – you can go on a journey across Senegal with Touki Bouki, lose yourself in the stunning visual odyssey that is La Pirogue, and follow a man on what is possibly his last day of life, in Tey; and you can see many more films in our programme, attend one of our Film Africa LIVE! events and even have a chat with one of our visiting directors. And if all that’s not enough, we’re also offering a 3 for 1 offer on all Film Africa screenings at Hackney Picture House and the Ritzy in Brixton.  Tey Sat 9 Nov l 20:45 l BFI Southbank |  Get tickets  Followed by a Q&A with the director. Dir. Alain Gomis. With Saul Williams, Djolof Mbengue, Anisia Uzeyman. France/Senegal. 2012. 86min. Colour. Poet Saul Williams stars as Satché, newly returned from America to his Senegal hometown, where he listens to the announcement of his imminent death. Harking back to the aesthetic delights of Senegal’s rich auteurist history, Gomis crafts his own mood, combining past and present; traditional and modern. The Pirogue (La Pirogue) Sat 7 Nov l 21:00 l Ritzy Cinema | Get Tickets  Dir. Moussa Touré. With Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Laïty Fall, Malaminé ‘Yalenguen’ Dramé. France/Senegal/Germany. 2012. 87min. Colour. Moussa Touré’s visually stunning odyssey tells the story of Baye Laye (Ndiaye), a retired boat captain who reluctantly agrees to take a group of 29 African men across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain aboard a ‘pirogue’ (a wooden fishing boat). Their ensuing passage is far from smooth. Exceptional in the way it deals with a political hot-potato issue (illegal immigration) in a clear-eyed, compassionate manner, Touré crafts a drama that’s simultaneously fiercely contemporary and haunting. Horses of God (Les Chevaux de Dieu) Thu 7 Nov l 18:45 l Ritzy Cinema | Get Tickets  Dir. Nabil Ayouch. With Abdelhakim Rachi, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek. Morocco/Tunisia/Belgium/France. 2012. 115min. Colour. In Sidi Moumen, a slum district of Casablanca, two brothers grow up in a world of football, close friendship and hard knocks. But as they approach adulthood, the dreams of youth give way to the realities of poverty and violence. This provocative and dazzlingly-shot film casts a compassionate eye over the sources of extremism that fuelled the 2003 terrorist attacks in Morocco. A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie) Wed 6 Nov l 21:00 l Hackney Picturehouse | Get Tickets Dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.With Youssouf Djaoro, Dioucounda Koma, Emile Abossolo M’bo.France/Belgium/Chad. 2010. 92min. Colour. Adam (Djaoro) is a pool attendant at a fancy hotel in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital, where everyone still calls him ‘champ’ after his heyday as a competitive swimmer. His son, Abdel (Komo), works under him at the pool, but the old order is changing as economic pressures force the hotel management to promote Abdel and move Adam to demeaning front-gate duty. The spectre of war is also upsetting the natural state of things, and Adam enters into a terrible bargain when a local chief pressures him to contribute to the war effort, financial or otherwise. With masterful control, Haroun transforms the personal and emotional turmoil of his story into still, meditative, and quietly devastating filmmaking. African Film Conference Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 November | University of Westminster | Registration Fee:  £175, £95 student concessions | Register here We are partnering with the University of Westminster’s Africa Media Centre, to support their 5th annual African Film Conference. This year’s conference will focus on the relationship between African film and politics in changing global and local contexts. Jean-Pierre Bekolo – award-winning film director, writer, artist, professor and social activist from Cameroon – will be delivering the keynote speech using his latest film, The President, as a case study. Festival highlights Celebrating the Classics  Black Girl (La noire de...) Director Ousmane Sembene 4 Nov I 6pm I Ritzy cinema I Get Tickets  Sembene’s first feature is the tale of a young black domestic servant's isolation in Antibes, and the first feature to be produced and directed by an African. “For us, it was necessary to become political”, said Sembene, “to become involved in a struggle against all the ills of man’s cupidity, envy, individualism, the nouveau-riche mentality, and all the things we have inherited from the colonial and neo-colonial systems.” His film bears out this attitude in unforgettable fashion. Touki Bouki – 40th Anniversary Special Screening Director Djibril Diop Mambéty 9 Nov I 5pm I Hackney Picturehouse I Get tickets  Still thrilling, the mythical, freewheeling road-movie pioneered the spirit of punk and forged a new direction for sub-Saharan cinema. Two young lovers plot their route out of Senegal in this cornucopia of stunning imagery, sonic dissonance and slyly political subtext. ToukiBouki is a classic that’s not to be missed. Mille Soleils Director Mati Diop 9 Nov I 7:15 pm I Hackney Picturehouse  Diop’s compelling mid-length essay film retraces and investigates some 40 years later the journeys of the two main characters from Touki Bouki, the cult film made by her late uncle Djibril Diop Mambety (which we are also screening). Diop’s family is inextricably entangled with the dual histories of cinema and Senegal, and, in Mille Soleils, she uses this fact to merge temporalities to haunting effect. Winner, Grand Prix International Competition, FID Marseille 2013 Borom Sarret Director Ousmane Sembene 8 November 8:45PM | Get tickets  Sembene’s Borom Sarret,  considered the first film directed by a black African, is fable of a poor Dakar man trying to make a living as a cart driver is . Don’t miss this rare chance to see it on the big screen. Screened alongside Tey(Director Alain Gomis) follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2013 Royal African Society, All rights reserved.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences