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Flim/Video AFRICA CROSSING DARESALAM DIRECTED BY ISSA SERGE COELO WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2002 8 PM $8 ($7 SENIORS/ STUDENTS WITH CURRENT ID; $6 WALKER AND UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY [UFS] MEMBERS WITH MEMBERSHIP CARD). AUDITORIUM  |
Inspired by the story of Cain and Abel, Daresalam presents a tale of civil war in Chad in the 1970s. Farmers and workers take up arms against an oppressive government; Koni and Djimi, friends since childhood, join the revolutionary effort but take opposing sides when the rebellion splits into factions. This film puts a human face on the vicious cycle of violence that engulfs many African countries today and the unfathomable acts that overwhelm all sides in war. Daresalam brilliantly weaves memory, hope, and despair and "ends on a note of un-ironic optimism that is more radical than all the calculated nihilism served up on Western movie screens" (LA Weekly). 2000, Burkina Faso/France, color, 35mm, in Arabic and French with English subtitles, 105 minutes.
AFRICA CROSSING IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE BUSH FOUNDATION. SPECIAL THANKS TO MAHEN BONETTI (AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL, NEW YORK), SIMON FIELD AND SANDRA DEN HAMER (INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM), MARIANNE BHALOTTA (HUBERT BALS FUND), DESIREE MARKGRAAF (BOMB, JOHANNESBURG), AND MARTIAL KNAEBEL (FRIBOURG FILM FESTIVAL).