We are inviting you to the following edition of the Festival of African Movies "AfriCamera 2013" , organized by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre. The Festival takes place between 11th and 14th of April at Kameralne Cinema and Old City Hall in Gdank.

Movies screened this year are the best pictures produced in Africa in past few years. Africa is at the peak of its renaissance-it is the fastest growing region of the world now, and movie production business is thriving in South Africa, in Kenya, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and recently in Senegal. The movies selected for this year's festival picture Africa as it is: a continent with very difficult history, but unusually rich culture, with serious problems and people full of character. African movies despite the fact of reaching for North American and European developments, speak its own language and about characteristic African problems, showing context in a manner different from simplified Western productions relating to Africa.

In the program of this year's edition of AfriCamera, we have planned some attractions for the youngest audience, accompanying events and book sales. As usual the Festival is divided into sections:

Focus Senegal: a part including selected movie productions from Senegal, movies : "Madame Tyson", "L'Absence"

Afroselecta: this part includes the best movie produced in Africa: awarded at world film festivals, blockbusters in their countries;
movies: "Othello Burning", "Material";

Global Africa: a selection of movies from African diaspora
movie: "Voyage Espoir"

Short films: the most interesting short movies from Africa
movies in two blocks: "Human landscapes" and "Desert Tales"

Kids:
Screening of movie " Zarafa" - during a multimedia show preceding the movie, the youngest audience of the festival will be introduced to such questions as "colonialism", "slavery" , the meeting with children will be moderated by Marta Maciejewska.
Tickets: for schools (group) - 8 zloty, concs-10 zloty, normal-12 zloty

Workshops " African Journey"  by "Dream Catchers" group ( making African masks, telling African tales )

Accompanying events :

Meeting with Edward Porembny, the director of "MadameTyson" movie, moderated by Paweł Biliński

Meeting with Dorota Katende, the author of the book "Dam na Zanzibarze", moderated by  Barbara Piórkowska

Show " Light and shadows. Africa" and meeting with Magda Hueckel and Tomasz Śliwiński: it is an audi-visual journey to the heart of the Black Continent. The show consists of nearly 200 photographs, which are a personal record of many journeys on the continent. Parts of the material are accompanied by regional music and music inspired by Africa. The photographs were taken between 2005-2010 in Algeria Ethiopia, Kenya, Congo, Lesotho, Mali, South African Republic, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda,
Projection : 25 minutes

Program of the festival :

11.04.13 Kameralne Cinema

18:00 Madam Tyson ( dir. Edward Poremby, Poland 2013, 90 min. ) and a meeting with the director
20:15 "Material" ( dir. Craig Freimond, South Africa, 94 min. )

12.04.13 (Friday) Old Town Hall

12:00 Kids selection "Zarafa" ( dir. Remi Bezancon, Jean-Christophe Lie, France, Belgium 2012, 75 min. )

Kameralne Cinema:

18:30 Voyage Espoir, ( dir. Michel K. Zongo , Burkina Faso 2012, 81 min. )
20:00 Othello Burning ( dir.....Sara Blecher, South Africa 2011, 105 min. )

13.04.13 ( Saturday) Kameralne Cinema

17:30 Short movies selection / Human Landscapes ( Iyeza, dir. Kudzinai Chiurai (Zimbabwe), Our Ship, dir. Garon Campbell (South Africa), 4. Kichwateli, dir. Bobb Muchiri Mjenga (Kenya), Chumo, dir. Jordan Riber (Tanzania), Tu seras mon allie, Rosine Mftego Mbakam (Cameroon) )

19:45 Lights and shadows. Africa. Admission free
21:00 L'Absence ( dir. Mama Keita, Senegal 2008, 81 min. )

14.04.13 ( Sunday) Old Town Hall - admission free

12:00 Kids selection / African journey
17:00 A meeting with an author Dorota Katende ( Dom na Zanzibarze)
18:30 Short films selection / Desert Stories ( (Wbrew przeciwnościom, 6 min.; Nouakchott P.K.O., 18 min; Men Choufouch, 4 min.; Graffiti, 4 min.; Al Khadra: Poetka znad piasków, 26 min.)

Tickets:

Tickets are available from 04.04.13 at book-shop ( Old Town Hall, Korzenna 33/35 street) and half an hour before the show at Kameralne Cinema

cons : 10 zloty
normal 12 zloty
for three movies: 28 zloty
for all festival: 50 zloty

For more descriptions go to http://www.afrykamera.pl/program/sekcje/