AfryKamera is a film festival that presents culture and life conditions of contemporary Africa. During the festival we will see the most interesting African films that varies from classics and documentaries about society and culture, to contemporary works. We also invite you to participate in a meeting with Leszek Bzdyl who will tell us about his experiences concerning Africa.
Programme
9.10.2010 Saturday
18.30 De Voortrekkers (The Pioneers)
A film show with live music (73 min) SzaZa band (Patryk Zakrocki i Paweł Szamburski)
This epic silent film presents history of The Great Migration of Burs in nineteenth century. It is connected to the legendary battle of Bloody River (1838), where less than a thousand of Afrikaners defeated a bigger number of Zulus. The story concerns the most important myth that shapes Afrikaners’ national identity.
20.00 This is my Africa (50 min)
This wild, fresh and innovative documentary was made to stop traditional thinking about Africa. Twenty-one well-known people, who are spiritually related to Africa, will share with us their personal experiances concerning Africa.
21.00 Slide show of Nowak’s Africa: Agnieszka Grudowska will give a lecture about Zambia on
10.10.2010 Sunday
18.30 Luggage boy (90 min)
There are managers educated in western Europe who are torn between „selling themselves” and following their youthful ideals. It is a typical film of those times (the film was made in 1978), where we meet new bourgeoisie, people working in office buildings and factories, and we can see how their family relations are changing. It shows how the society was transforming then.
20.00 The Pilgrim El Hadji (37 min)
This short Oumarou Gandy’s film shows the story of a pilgrim, who gets the „El Hadji” title of honour, but still is a a hypocrite and a stupid man. The film was awarded with the first price on The African Film Festival in Wagadugu.
20.40 A thousand and one hands (90 min)
The first film of Souheil Ben Barka, director from Maroko, gives a critical judgment of class division. Those who are not wealthy - even children and women - have to work really hard, otherwise their families will not survive.
11.10.2010 Monday
18.00 Meeting with Leszek Bzdyl - This is my Africa
A series of meetings with famous Poles was inspired by the film of Saro-Wiwa. In Gdańsk Leszek Bzdyl will give a lecture about his experiances in Africa concerning the most interesting places and people.
19.00 Djeli, a contemporary fairy tale (92 min)
Fanta i Karamoko are students from Ivory Coast who dream about marriage. They were born in the same village and their families know each other. Still, they don’t realize that there is a reason why they cannot get married. It’s caused by their origin. It is traditionally forbidden to marry Fanta, daughter of a royal Mandinka family, by Karamoko, a son of griot. We meet Fanta and Karamoko in a town where everything seems to change fast but traditional and conservetive thiniking is still present.
20.40 Muna moto - Not my child (89 min)
Ugando i Ndome are in love and want to get married but, according to tradition, the boy has to pay for his fiancee. This amazing film contains many intensive, beautiful and breathtaking scenes. There are not many dialogues, so you can feel how important every single word is.
12.10.2010 Tuesday
18.30 Pumzi (21 min)
Kenian science-fiction. After the Third World War, known as the War for Water, when environment is destroyed and people live in enclosed enclaves. Thirty-five years later Asha, museum curator in one of those enclaves, suspects that the outside world is not really dead. She has to break the law to make sure about it.
In a whisper (80 min)
Abu i Tamani come from two different worlds: he works in special services, she is a rebellious artist. However, because of a tragic bomb explosion ten years ago in the American embassy in Nairobi, their lives became bound up together.
20.10 Tunnel (30 min)
The story takes place in 80’s in Zimbabwe during the Fifth Brigade massacres. Somewhere between reality and childish fantasy, young Elisabeth, known as a Rabbit, tells a story about mysterious disappearance of her father.
Shirley Adams (92 min)
A very intimate story about southafrican woman, Shirley Adams, who lives in suburbs of Cape Town. The film is a kind of insightful psychological study of two people, whom fate seems not to support. Spectators are under the impression that they peek at personal life of main characters.
13.10. 2010 Wednesday
18.30 You know nothing about Kinszas (90 min)
Ngangura dedicates this documentary to 5 million and 400 thousand people who died in Kongo during civil war. This film refers to to “Hiroshima, mon amour” by Alain Resnais, mainly because it shows war damages of a town in a similar way. It is a story of those who survived. They live in groups and try to improve their standard of living step by step, like having electricity or running water.
20.00 Travelling together (50 min)
During this musical spectators are transferred to hot, roadless tracts of Senegal, where six passengers of a rickery old taxi heading from Dakar to Saint-Louis tell stories about their lives. It is very hot outside, a long way ahead and the taxi breaks down occasionally.
21.00 The announcement of results of Jury
Tickets:
Concessionary tickets: 8
Full fare tickets: 10
Ticket for three shows: 20
Ticket for all days: 60
