The Sembene Films in Competition will be screened this Wednesday and Thursday this week at The House of Wonders in Stonetown. Seventeen films have been selected for the competition which is open to all African films and Co-productions between Africans and other nationalities.
The films submitted are on social, political and developmental issues with the intention to inform, educate, entertain and, most importantly, to motivate and stimulate audiences to take action. The competition is based on Ousemane Sembene’s approach to film as a tool for social change.
Wednesday 22nd June at The House of Wonders
09:00 – 10:00 Hidden Truth (52min), Zambia
10:05 – 11:10 Arapha (53min), Italy/Tanzania
11:10 – 12:30 Ithemba (71min), Jamaica/USA
12:30 – 12:45 Nazaeli (8min), Tanzania
12:45 – 13:45 BREAK
13:45 – 14:55 White and Black (58min), USA/Tanzania
15:00 – 15:20 Cries at Night (14min), Tanzania
15:20 – 16:30 Kamenge Nothern Quarters (58min), Italy
16:30 – 17:10 Living Positively (30min), Kenya
17:10 – 17:45 Swahili Fighting Words (33min), Tanzania
Thursday 23rd June at The House of Wonders
09:00 – 09:35 55 Bucks (27min), USA/Tanzania
09:35 – 10:40 A Country for My Daughter (54min), South Africa
10:40 – 11:15 Unsung Heroines-Habiba (30min), Tanzania
11:15 – 11:50 Unsung Heroines-Kidjo (30min), Tanzania
11:50 – 12:25 Unsung Heroines-Migiro (30min), Tanzania
12:30 – 13:30 BREAK
13:30 – 14:40 Manenberg (58min), Denmark
14:40 – 16:10 The Creators (81min), South Africa/USA
16:15 – 17:15 The Locker Room (51min), Israel/Tanzania
About Ousmane Sembene
Semebene was born in Senegal in 1923. After WWII he lived in France where he became a forceful spokesperson within the radical arts and political movements of the region. During a 1961 visit home to Africa, then exploding with revolutionary fervor, creative possibility and post-colonial backlash, this laborer-turned-writer recognized that African people could not be effectively reached through written literature in any language. Cinema, however, could tell the essential stories of Africa to the African people. Sembène chose to devote his energies to creating emancipating and restorative images for the African people. his 50 years of creative output blazed trail for generations of African, African-American and African-European writers, filmmakers and scholars. He is the Father of African Cinema
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