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Most
events sold out last year – book
now to
avoid missing out! DANCE GOT ME with TAVAZIVA
DANCE at Circomedia and Dance Workshops at Hamilton House - Tickets
from: info@imayla.com
or call 07780 918 857 |
The Film Festival that lets Africa speak for herself.
We hear a lot about Africa, but very little is told by African voices. From the 24th of October Bristol’s fourth annual Afrika Eye Film Festival will showcase films that tell stories from an African and diaspora perspective.
We are also bringing together local African and Afro-Caribbean communities with international figures in film, dance and music, giving everyone the opportunity to get a taste of African culture beyond the screen.
The programme culminates in the weekend from Friday Oct 30th to Nov 1st 2009, promising three jam-packed days of exciting, varied and, above all, eye-opening film showings, dance and music performances, director led question and answer sessions and much more besides.
Working in association with the Watershed Cinema, Circomedia and Imayla Dance we’re featuring films and dance from Senegal, Algeria, Congo, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Highlights
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Dance Got Me/Tavaziva Dance Fr 23rd, 6pm/8pm Circomedia Documentary film screening about acclaimed contemporary dancer Bawren Tavaziva will be followed by Tavaziva Dance performing live with Imayla Dance Dialogues. |
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Touki Bouki - Senegalese Film Première Fr 30th, 8.45pm Watershed The surreal and luminous story of two young lovers who try to escape Senegal for Paris, directed by a master of African cinema, Djibril Diop Mambety. |
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Kora Master Mamadou Cissoko plays. Come party with us!Fr 30th, 10pm Watershed Our opening party features renowned Kora player Mamadou Cissoko and his djembe trio, who will also perform Senegalese dance. Free entry to party with your Touki Bouki ticket. |
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Battle
of Algiers -
Free Film Screening Sa
31st,
12pm Watershed Pontecorvo’s
raw, explicit and stunningly realistic classic of urban insurgency
which restages, blow by bitter blow, the birth of Algeria's war for
independence.Read more…...... Tickets |
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Eyefull Short Film Selection Sa 31st, 2.45pm Watershed We’re back with a variety of shorts from both local film-makers and those from further afield. This year there will be a prize for the best, selected by a jury of young people. |
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Awaiting for Men - Mauritanian Documentary Sa 31st, 4.45pm Watershed An intimate and often humorous portrait of three Muslim women who reveal their beliefs about men, sex and work as they go about their daily business in a remote village in the Mauritanian desert. Read more...Tickets |
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Screening Celebrating 50th Anniversary of the Anti-apartheid movement Su 1st, 4.30pm Watershed ACTSA (Action for Southern Africa) are sponsoring a screening of Have You Heard From Johannesburg? : The Bottom Line. This documentary shows how grass roots movements during the 80s enforced sanctions on South Africa. |
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Fim Distribution Workshop Fr 30th, 2-5pm Watershed Come and be part of the digital revolution! Learn how to help film-makers get their work promoted and their images seen. |
