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Flim/Video AFRICA CROSSING WE'RE NOT DEAD ANYMORE YIZO YIZO, PROGRAM II TEMPORARY REGISTRATION SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2002 2, 5 AND 8 PM $8 ($7 SENIORS/ STUDENTS WITH CURRENT ID; $6 WALKER AND UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY [UFS] MEMBERS WITH MEMBERSHIP CARD). AUDITORIUM  |
WE'RE NOT DEAD ANYMORE (NOUS NE SOMMES PLUS MORTS), 2 PM
DIRECTED BY FRANÇOIS L. WOUKOACHE
In 1998, a group of writers from across Africa journeyed to Rwanda to bear witness to the aftermath of the devastating genocide of 1994. They struggled to come to terms with this horrific period of ethnic cleansing, in which more than one million Rwandans were murdered, and to share in the grief and suffering of the survivors. In the faces and voices of the people they encounter, they discovered a country facing up to its troubled past with courage and hope for the future. 2000, Belgium/Rwanda/France, color, video, in French with English subtitles, 126 minutes.
YIZO YIZO, PROGRAM II, 5 PM
INTRODUCED BY DIRECTOR TEBOHO MAHLATSI
The second installment of the controversial and popular South African TV drama about a Johannesburg all-black high school. 1999, South Africa, color, video, in English/Zulu/Sotho/Xhosa with English subtitles, 120 minutes.
TEMPORARY REGISTRATION (IMMATRICULATION TEMPORAIRE), 8 PM
Although born in Guinea, Mathias Lénault is a Frenchman. He and his mother immigrated to France when he was a week old, and now he has returned to Guinea in search of his unknown father and his own ethnic identity. Unfamiliar with the regional language or landscape, Mathias meets some locals who act as his guides. They have come together, but can they overcome cultural differences to fully understand each other? Fofana's pensive character study traces their awkward interactions and multilingual conversations. 2000, Guinea/France, color, 35mm, in French/Fulani/Susu with English subtitles, 77 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).