Mostra Pan_Africana de Arte Contemporânea

PAN-AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION
March 18 to April 17 2005 | exhibition | film screenings | debates

Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) | Solar do Unhão (Unhão Manor)
Av. Contorno s/nº, Solar do Unhão – Comércio
Salvador – BA
Phone: (71) 3329-0660
Tuesday to Sunday – from 1 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Free admission

DIMAS | Walter da Silveira Salon
Rua General Labatut, 27 – Barris (State Public Library building)
Salvador – BA
Phone: (71) 3116-8100
Free admission

PROGRAMME

MARCH 18 | FRIDAY | MAM

_OPENING

_8 p.m. | EXHIBITION ROOMS

_9 p.m.
PÁTIO DAS MANGUEIRAS | SHOW BY RAMIRO MUSOTTO
In an original combination of technology and Afro-Brazilian rhythms, Ramiro Musotto presents a multi-media spectacle, in which music, based on the unique sound of the Afro-Brazilian instrument “berimbau” establishes a dialogue with the projected images. The show, thriving on the rhythm of percussion instruments, synthesizes Musotto’s research, a pioneer in the fusion of Afro-Brazilian, Latin-American, Caribbean and indigenous rhythms.

Ramiro Musotto / berimbau, percussion, computer
Leo Leobons / percussion, batá, voice
Sacha Amback / keyboard, sampler, theremin
Ramirito Gonzalo / berimbau, percussion
Julio “Ciego” Moreno / “Bahiana” guitar
Leiteres Leite / pífano, sax
Capitão Corisco / pífano
Rudson / percussion
Mintcho Garrammone / cavaquinho

_EXHIBITION

MAM | GALLERY I_SENEGAL’S NATIONAL EXHIBITION: V BAMAKO
Curator Koyo Kouoh has searched for new histories and new authors from Senegal, bringing together four original photographers, who seek for contemporary images amidst tradition: Aliou Mbaye, Fatou Kandé Senghor, Matar Ndour and Pape Seydi.

MAM | CHAPEL_ANTÓNIO OLE, Angola
CANOA QUEBRADA_[Broken boat]_installation of variable size in iron, bricks, paper, television sets and embalmed crows, accompanied by six black and white photographs, untitled, 50 x 40 cm each, of the “Portraits” [Retratos] series (1973-1979)
Hidden pages, stolen bodies – installation with two video channels, metal, wood, canvas, newspapers, roping, sealing wax, bones and a skull – variable size.

MAM | GROUND FLOOR HOUSE_MARIO CRAVO NETO, Brazil
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW_installation with one digital video channel for ten projectors, photography and sound.

MAM | UPPER HOUSE_EUSTÁQUIO NEVES, Brazil
OUTROS NAVIOS [Other ships]_a sound installation with four digital video channels and photographs from the series “Boa Aparência"[Good Appearance], “Arturos”, “Objetização do corpo"[Objectification of the body] and “Máscara de Punição"[Punishment Mask].

MAM | GALLERY III_MARIA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS, Cuba/USA
THREADS OF MEMORY_sound installation in a six channel digital video.
NESTING | WHEN I AM NOT HERE. ESTOY ALLÁ_82 x 56 cm Polaroid photographs.

MAM | PIER_DANIEL LIMA, Brazil
COLUNA LASER III – MAR, 2005 [Laser Column III – Sea, 2005]_a projection of a laser beam emanating from the Solar do Unhão building, in Salvador, towards Baía de Todos os Santos, on the 18th, 19th and 20th of March.

MARCH 19 | SATURDAY

_2 p.m. | DEBATE | MAM AUDITORIUM
MEETINGO WITH ARTISTS AND CURATORS OF THE VISUAL ART CURATORIAL AXIS:
The sea, which simultaneously unites and separates Africa from the Americas, is the starting point for the works on the exhibition. In them, there lies the meeting among history and memory, the African Diaspora and heritage.
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António Ole, artist Luanda, Angola
Daniel Lima, artist São Paulo, Brazil
Eustáquio Neves, artist Minas Gerais, Brazil
Koyo Kouoh, curator Dakar, Senegal
Mario Cravo Neto, artist Bahia, Brazil
Solange Farkas, curator São Paulo, Brazil
Kenneth Montague, curator, Canada

_4 p.m. | DEBATE | MAM AUDITORIUM
MEETING WITH THE FILM MAKERS AND CRITICS OF THE CINEMA CURATORIAL AXIS:
The challenges, the histories and advances of cinema production in Brazil and African countries.
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Joel Zito Araújo (MG-Brazil) – Director of the film “Daughters of the wind” [Filhas do vento], which will be previewed in Salvador during the exhibition in Walter da Silveira Salon. The feature film brings together the largest ever Black cast in Brazilian cinema.
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João Carlos Rodrigues (RJ-Brazil) – Writer and cinema critic, he is the author of "O negro brasileiro e o cinema" [The Brazilian Black and Cinema](1988).
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Rod Stoneman (England) – A specialist in African cinema and director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media of Ireland National University.
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Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania) – Director of “En attendant le bonheur – Heremakono”, which won a prize at FESPACO 2003. In the previous year, won the Cannes International Critics Award with the same film.
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Moussa Sene Absa | Film maker from Senegal, has studied cinema in France. Director of “Madame Brouette”, and was a stage actor before starting his cinema career.

_8 p.m. | FILM SCREENING | WALTER DA SILVEIRA SALON
PREVIEW
With the presence of the director and the cast of “Filhas do vento" [Daughters of the wind], a film that breaks stereotypes and brings together the largest Black cast in the history of Brazilian cinema.

FILHAS DO VENTO [Daughters of the wind]
_Joel Zito Araújo
1’20’’ | fiction | Brazil
“Filhas do vento” [Daughters of the wind] is a story of a loving redemption between sisters, mothers and daughters. The film, which brings together the largest Black cast in the history of Brazilian cinema, tackles subjects relevant to women everywhere, but, in a small city of the inland state of Minas Gerais, the ghosts of slavery and prejudice weigh down on their dramas in a subtle and powerful way. In a film of political and social implications, the director replaces the usually stereotyped roles played by Black actors in Brazilian television with multifaceted character building. With Milton Gonçalves, Ruth de Souza, Léa Garcia, Taís Araújo, Maria Ceiça.

MARCH 20 | SUNDAY

_2 p.m. | DEBATE | WALTER DA SILVEIRA SALON
MEMORY AND SLAVERY: PATHS RECONQUERED?
The marks of a unique history and its impact on contemporary cultural production by Africans and Afro-descendants raise issues of identity, rites and religion in Africa and in countries such as Brazil, who has received those originating from the Diaspora.
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Abderrahmane Sissako | Film maker from Mauritania, presently lives in France. Director of the film ”En attendant le bonheur – Heremakono”, won a prize at FESPACO 2003. In the previous year, won the Cannes International Critics Award with the same film.
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Armindo Bião | A Sorbonne Ph.D. and holder of a Minnesota University M.A. degree, was nominated best actor in Bahia in 1979-80. He is director-general of the State of Bahia Cultural Foundation [Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia].
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João Reis | Holds a Ph.D. Degree from the University of Minnesota, is a history teacher at UFBa. Member of the Afro-Oriental Studies Executive Council [Conselho Deliberativo do Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais].
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Laënnec Hurbon | A Ph.D. in theology and Sociology, is one of the most brilliant intellectuals in Haiti.
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Moussa Sene Absa | Film maker from Senegal, has studied cinema in France. Director of “Madame Brouette”, and was a stage actor before starting his cinema career.
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Sergio Guedes | Actor, was a teacher at the Nouvelle Sorbonne Theatre Studies Institute in Paris. Works at the State of Bahia Cultural Foundation [Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia].

_4 p.m. | DEBATE | WALTER DA SILVEIRA SALON
MEETING WITH INTELLECTUALS OF THE THOUGHT AXIS:
“Memorialisation” and its consequences on the African Diaspora.
Identity, reencountering origins and the strengthening of contemporary Black identity.
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Cheryl Finley (USA) | Studies the so-called roots tourism, in which milestones of the Afro-descendants’ history are visited. She is visiting assistant professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. She is also a curator and art critic.
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Zita C. Nunes (USA) | Studies the cannibalisation of the past, and is the author of works on culture and politics, race and democracy. Assistant professor at the English and Compared Literature of Maryland University, College Park.
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Antônio Godi (BA, Brazil) | Studies the relationship among the music produced by Afro-descendants, African identity and the Diaspora. Essay writer and researcher on Black culture, he teaches at Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS) and is one of the founders of S.A.M.B.A. – Bahia’s Music Socio-Anthropology [Sócio-Antropologia da Música Baiana], at Bahia Federal University (UFBa), besides coordinating the Contemporaneity Research and Studies Nucleus at UEFS.

FILM SCREENING | WALTER DA SILVEIRA SALON
Ouagadougou Pan-African Cinema and Television Festival (FESPACO), Burkina Faso
The manifestation of African cinema is represented in this programme, composed by 11 documentary and 7 fiction films from the “L’Afrique se filme” series. This programme was possible thanks to the efforts and the collaboration of the French Embassy in Brazil. Film makers Abderrahmane Sissako and Moussa Sene Absa will be present, introducing their films.

20 DE MARÇO | DOMINGO
_7 p.m.
EN ATTENDANT LE BONHEUR–HEREMAKONO | WAITING FOR HAPPINESS_Abderrahmane Sissako
1’35’’ | fiction | Mauritania
Abdallah, a boy, meets his mother in Nouadhibou, on the coast of Mauritania, as they wait to go to Europe. There, he tries to decipher the world around him: Nana, who tries to seduce him, Maata, ex-fisherman turned electrician, and his apprentice, Khatra, who will help him escape his isolation by teaching him the local dialect.

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_9 p.m.
MADAME BROUETTE | Mrs. Brouette_Moussa Sene Absa
1’44’’ | fiction | Senegal
On morning, in the Niayes Thiokeert (“Partridge Mound”) neighbourhood, gunshots are heard. In the arms of the neighbours who hurried to the scene, Naago falls, riddled with bullets. She, whom all know as Mrs. Brouette, confesses to have killed her husband. But the women gather to praise this young divorcée, mother of girl, a fruit and vegetable seller.

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MARCH 21 | MONDAY
_7 p.m.
ABOUNA_Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
1’21’’ | fiction | Chad Republic
Tahir (15 year old) and Amine (8 year old) discover on waking up that their father has gone. They decide to search for him. Weary, they take refuge in a cinema theatre, where, one day, they believe to recognise their father on screen, and then they steal the film cans...
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_9 p.m.
LE PRIX DU PARDON | THE PRICE OF FORGIVENESS_Mansour Sora Wade
1’30’’ | fiction | Senegal
A thick fog covers a village in Senegal and stops the canoes from going to sea. The elderly religious leader is in his death bed and cannot perform the rites. His 20-yer-old son, Mbanik, gains the confidence of the population and captivates the young woman Maxoye. But his success ignites the envy of Yatma, his childhood friend...

MARCH 22 | TUESDAY
_7 p.m.
MOI ET MON BLANC | ME AND MY WHITE_Pierre Yameogo
1’30’’ | fiction | Burkina Fasso
Mamadi, a Burkina Faso student, and Frank, a Frenchman, are guards in a parking lot. Through the security camera monitors they follow the comings and goings, prostitution and trafficking. One night, Mamadi discovers a packet with drugs and money. They keep it, but they are pursued by the owners... They hide and then they fly to Ouagadougou...
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_9 p.m.
TASUMA LE FEU | TASUMA, THE FIRE_Daniel Sanou Kollo
1’30’’ | fiction | Burkina Fasso
Sogo Sanon, codename Tasuma, is an old gunner who has fought with the French army. He expects to receive his pension pay. When he goes to Bobo to collect it, he buys a mill on credit to help the women. But the pension does not come.

MARCH 24 | THURSDAY
_7 p.m.
NHA FALA_Flora Gomes
1’30’’ | fiction | Guinea-Bissau
In Cape Verde, the events regulating social life are transformed into music. But in Vita’s family a legend threatens with death those who try to do it. In France, where she studies, she meets Pierre, a musician , with whom she falls in love. He convinces her to do a record, which becomes a success. But Vita has betrayed tradition, and returns home to confess to the family and to be punished.
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_9 p.m.
CONTES CRUELS DE LA GUERRE | CRUEL WAR TALES_Ibea Atondi e Karim Miské
51’’ | doc. | Congo-Brazzaville, Mauritânia
By means of the narration of his return to Congo-Brazzaville, Ibea Atondi casts a singular glance over the wars of contemporary Africa.

MARCH 25 | FRIDAY
_7 p.m.
HOUSE OF LOVE_Cecil Moller
26’’ | doc. | Namibia, South Africa
Wedged between the sea and the desert, Welvis Bay port in Namibia is an open air prison for the women forced into prostitution. Cécil Moller collects their tales and their hope of redemption.
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_9 p.m.
POUSSIÈRES DE VILLE | URBAN DUST_Moussa Touré
52’’ | doc. | Congo-Brazzaville, Senegal
The film begins with the image of seven raggedy children in Brazzaville. Moussa Touré records their wanderings through the city and decides to return them to their families.

MARCH 26 | SATURDAY
_7 p.m.
MÉMOIRE ENTRE DEUX RIVES | MEMORY BETWEEN TWO MARGINS_Frédéric Savoye e
Wolimité Sié Palenfo
1’30’’ | doc. | Burkina Fasso
The directors revisit the history of French colonisation in Lobi, Burkina Faso. There, the villages and families are still marked by the memory of this painful period.
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_9 p.m.
WA N'WINA (SINCERELY YOURS)_Dumisani Phakathi
52’’ | doc. | South Africa
“Steps for the future” series
Dumisani returns to his city in South Africa, to record how life is lived in these times of AIDS. With camera in hand, at the whim of chance meetings, he talks to childhood friends.

MARCH 27 | SUNDAY
_7 p.m.
SI-GUÉRIKI LA REINE-MÈRE | SI-GUÉRIKI, QUEEN-MOTHER_Idrissou Mora Kpai
1’02’’ | doc. | Benin
After a ten-year absence, Idrissou Mora Kpai returns to Benin to see the family again. During the trip, he discovers the one who had, always, done nothing but serve his father: his mother.
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_ 9 p.m.
ZIMBABWE COUNTDOWN_Michael Raeburn
55’’ | doc. | Zimbabwe
The director revisits the events that, from the year 2000, pushed Zimbabwe into chaos and bankruptcy. Engaged in the struggle for the emancipation of Rhodesia before independence, shoulder to shoulder with Robert Mugabe, he retraces the path of him who beat Britisher Ian Smith and took over the Presidency for himself.

MARCH 28 | MONDAY
_7 p.m.
VACANCES AU PAYS | HOLIDAYS AT HOME_Jean-Marie Teno
1’15’’ | doc. | Cameroon
In 1998, Jean-Marie Teno returns to the land of his childhood, in Cameroon. From Yaoundé, a big city, to Badjoun, the village where he used to spend his holidays, he records an ironic inventory of the country’s situation.
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_9 p.m.
TRACES, EMPREINTES DE FEMMES | TRACES, WOMEN'S FOOTPRINTS _Katy Léna NDiaye
52’’ | doc. | Senegal, Burkina Fasso
The mural paintings by Burkina Faso kassena women are famed for their beauty. The film compares tradition and modernity, by means of the portrait of three elderly ladies and “their granddaughter”.

MARCH 29 | TUESDAY
_7 p.m.
RWANDA POUR MÉMOIRE | RWANDA IN MEMORIAM_Samba Félix N’Diaye
1’08’’ | Senegal | 2003
Between April and July 1994, the massacre of Tutsis and moderate Hutus made a million victims. By initiative of Fest’Africa, African authors met for a workshop four years later. In May 2000, during the launch of works inspired in this experience, writers and artists meet in Rwanda.
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_9 p.m.
XALIMA LA PLUME | XALIMA, THE FEATHER_Ousmane William M’Baye
51’’ | doc. | Senegal
Precursor of folk Senegalese music, Seydina Insa Wade became famous in the 1970’s. In the 1980’s, he moved to France, and has increasingly faded from the memory of his fellow country people. On feeling the Senegal’s youth knew him too little, he returned to Dakar to record his latest works.


	PAN-AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION March 18 to April 17 2005 \| exhibition \| film screenings \| debates Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) \| Solar do Unhão (Unhão Manor) Av. Contorno s/nº, Solar do Unhão – Comércio Salvador – BA Phone: (71) 3329-0660 Tuesday to Sunday – from 1 a.m. to 7 p.m. Free admission DIMAS \| Walter da Silveira Salon Rua General Labatut, 27 – Barris (State Public Library building) Salvador – BA Phone: (71) 3116-8100 Free admission PROGRAMME MARCH 18 \| FRIDAY \| MAM _OPENING _8 p.m. \| EXHIBITION ROOMS _9 p.m. PÁTIO DAS MANGUEIRAS \| SHOW BY RAMIRO MUSOTTO In an original combination of technology and Afro-Brazilian rhythms, Ramiro Musotto presents a multi-media spectacle, in which music, based on the unique sound of the Afro-Brazilian instrument “berimbau” establishes a dialogue with the projected images. The show, thriving on the rhythm of percussion instruments, synthesizes Musotto’s research, a pioneer in the fusion of Afro-Brazilian, Latin-American, Caribbean and indigenous rhythms. Ramiro Musotto / berimbau, percussion, computer Leo Leobons / percussion, batá, voice Sacha Amback / keyboard, sampler, theremin Ramirito Gonzalo / berimbau, percussion Julio “Ciego” Moreno / “Bahiana” guitar Leiteres Leite / pífano, sax Capitão Corisco / pífano Rudson / percussion Mintcho Garrammone / cavaquinho _EXHIBITION MAM \| GALLERY I_SENEGAL’S NATIONAL EXHIBITION: V BAMAKO Curator Koyo Kouoh has searched for new histories and new authors from Senegal, bringing together four original photographers, who seek for contemporary images amidst tradition: Aliou Mbaye, Fatou Kandé Senghor, Matar Ndour and Pape Seydi. MAM \| CHAPEL_ANTÓNIO OLE, Angola CANOA QUEBRADA_[Broken boat]_installation of variable size in iron, bricks, paper, television sets and embalmed crows, accompanied by six black and white photographs, untitled, 50 x 40 cm each, of the “Portraits” [Retratos] series (1973-1979) Hidden pages, stolen bodies – installation with two video channels, metal, wood, canvas, newspapers, roping, sealing wax, bones and a skull – variable size. MAM \| GROUND FLOOR HOUSE_MARIO CRAVO NETO, Brazil SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW_installation with one digital video channel for ten projectors, photography and sound. MAM \| UPPER HOUSE_EUSTÁQUIO NEVES, Brazil OUTROS NAVIOS [Other ships]_a sound installation with four digital video channels and photographs from the series “Boa Aparência"[Good Appearance], “Arturos”, “Objetização do corpo"[Objectification of the body] and “Máscara de Punição"[Punishment Mask]. MAM \| GALLERY III_MARIA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS, Cuba/USA THREADS OF MEMORY_sound installation in a six channel digital video. NESTING \| WHEN I AM NOT HERE. ESTOY ALLÁ_82 x 56 cm Polaroid photographs. MAM \| PIER_DANIEL LIMA, Brazil COLUNA LASER III – MAR, 2005 [Laser Column III – Sea, 2005]_a projection of a laser beam emanating from the Solar do Unhão building, in Salvador, towards Baía de Todos os Santos, on the 18th, 19th and 20th of March. MARCH 19 \| SATURDAY _2 p.m. \| DEBATE \| MAM AUDITORIUM MEETINGO WITH ARTISTS AND CURATORS OF THE VISUAL ART CURATORIAL AXIS: The sea, which simultaneously unites and separates Africa from the Americas, is the starting point for the works on the exhibition. In them, there lies the meeting among history and memory, the African Diaspora and heritage. ___ António Ole, artist Luanda, Angola Daniel Lima, artist São Paulo, Brazil Eustáquio Neves, artist Minas Gerais, Brazil Koyo Kouoh, curator Dakar, Senegal Mario Cravo Neto, artist Bahia, Brazil Solange Farkas, curator São Paulo, Brazil Kenneth Montague, curator, Canada _4 p.m. \| DEBATE \| MAM AUDITORIUM MEETING WITH THE FILM MAKERS AND CRITICS OF THE CINEMA CURATORIAL AXIS: The challenges, the histories and advances of cinema production in Brazil and African countries. ___ Joel Zito Araújo (MG-Brazil) – Director of the film “Daughters of the wind” [Filhas do vento], which will be previewed in Salvador during the exhibition in Walter da Silveira Salon. The feature film brings together the largest ever Black cast in Brazilian cinema. ___ João Carlos Rodrigues (RJ-Brazil) – Writer and cinema critic, he is the author of "O negro brasileiro e o cinema" [The Brazilian Black and Cinema](1988). ___ Rod Stoneman (England) – A specialist in African cinema and director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media of Ireland National University. ___ Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania) – Director of “En attendant le bonheur – Heremakono”, which won a prize at FESPACO 2003. In the previous year, won the Cannes International Critics Award with the same film. ___ Moussa Sene Absa \| Film maker from Senegal, has studied cinema in France. Director of “Madame Brouette”, and was a stage actor before starting his cinema career. _8 p.m. \| FILM SCREENING \| WALTER DA SILVEIRA SALON PREVIEW With the presence of the director and the cast of “Filhas do vento" [Daughters of the wind], a film that breaks stereotypes and brings together the largest Black cast in the history of Brazilian cinema. FILHAS DO VENTO [Daughters of the wind] _Joel Zito Araújo 1’20’’ \| fiction \| Brazil “Filhas do vento” [Daughters of the wind] is a story of a loving redemption between sisters, mothers and daughters. The film, which brings together the largest Black cast in the history of Brazilian cinema, tackles subjects relevant to women everywhere, but, in a small city of the inland state of Minas Gerais, the ghosts of slavery and prejudice weigh down on their dramas in a subtle and powerful way. In a film of political and social implications, the director replaces the usually stereotyped roles played by Black actors in Brazilian television with multifaceted character building. With Milton Gonçalves, Ruth de Souza, Léa Garcia, Taís Araújo, Maria Ceiça. MARCH 20 \| SUNDAY _2 p.m. \| DEBATE \| WALTER DA SILVEIRA SALON MEMORY AND SLAVERY: PATHS RECONQUERED? The marks of a unique history and its impact on contemporary cultural production by Africans and Afro-descendants raise issues of identity, rites and religion in Africa and in countries such as Brazil, who has received those originating from the Diaspora. ___ Abderrahmane Sissako \| Film maker from Mauritania, presently lives in France. Director of the film ”En attendant le bonheur – Heremakono”, won a prize at FESPACO 2003. In the previous year, won the Cannes International Critics Award with the same film. ___ Armindo Bião \| A Sorbonne Ph.D. and holder of a Minnesota University M.A. degree, was nominated best actor in Bahia in 1979-80. He is director-general of the State of Bahia Cultural Foundation [Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia]. ___ João Reis \| Holds a Ph.D. Degree from the University of Minnesota, is a history teacher at UFBa. Member of the Afro-Oriental Studies Executive Council [Conselho Deliberativo do Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais]. ___ Laënnec Hurbon \| A Ph.D. in theology and Sociology, is one of the most brilliant intellectuals in Haiti. ___ Moussa Sene Absa \| Film maker from Senegal, has studied cinema in France. Director of “Madame Brouette”, and was a stage actor before starting his cinema career. ___ Sergio Guedes \| Actor, was a teacher at the Nouvelle Sorbonne Theatre Studies Institute in Paris. Works at the State of Bahia Cultural Foundation [Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia]. _4 p.m. \| DEBATE \| WALTER DA SILVEIRA SALON MEETING WITH INTELLECTUALS OF THE THOUGHT AXIS: “Memorialisation” and its consequences on the African Diaspora. Identity, reencountering origins and the strengthening of contemporary Black identity. ___ Cheryl Finley (USA) \| Studies the so-called roots tourism, in which milestones of the Afro-descendants’ history are visited. She is visiting assistant professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. She is also a curator and art critic. ___ Zita C. Nunes (USA) \| Studies the cannibalisation of the past, and is the author of works on culture and politics, race and democracy. Assistant professor at the English and Compared Literature of Maryland University, College Park. ___ Antônio Godi (BA, Brazil) \| Studies the relationship among the music produced by Afro-descendants, African identity and the Diaspora. Essay writer and researcher on Black culture, he teaches at Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS) and is one of the founders of S.A.M.B.A. – Bahia’s Music Socio-Anthropology [Sócio-Antropologia da Música Baiana], at Bahia Federal University (UFBa), besides coordinating the Contemporaneity Research and Studies Nucleus at UEFS. FILM SCREENING \| WALTER DA SILVEIRA SALON Ouagadougou Pan-African Cinema and Television Festival (FESPACO), Burkina Faso The manifestation of African cinema is represented in this programme, composed by 11 documentary and 7 fiction films from the “L’Afrique se filme” series. This programme was possible thanks to the efforts and the collaboration of the French Embassy in Brazil. Film makers Abderrahmane Sissako and Moussa Sene Absa will be present, introducing their films. 20 DE MARÇO \| DOMINGO _7 p.m. EN ATTENDANT LE BONHEUR–HEREMAKONO \| WAITING FOR HAPPINESS_Abderrahmane Sissako 1’35’’ \| fiction \| Mauritania Abdallah, a boy, meets his mother in Nouadhibou, on the coast of Mauritania, as they wait to go to Europe. There, he tries to decipher the world around him: Nana, who tries to seduce him, Maata, ex-fisherman turned electrician, and his apprentice, Khatra, who will help him escape his isolation by teaching him the local dialect. ___ _9 p.m. MADAME BROUETTE \| Mrs. Brouette_Moussa Sene Absa 1’44’’ \| fiction \| Senegal On morning, in the Niayes Thiokeert (“Partridge Mound”) neighbourhood, gunshots are heard. In the arms of the neighbours who hurried to the scene, Naago falls, riddled with bullets. She, whom all know as Mrs. Brouette, confesses to have killed her husband. But the women gather to praise this young divorcée, mother of girl, a fruit and vegetable seller. ___ MARCH 21 \| MONDAY _7 p.m. ABOUNA_Mahamat-Saleh Haroun 1’21’’ \| fiction \| Chad Republic Tahir (15 year old) and Amine (8 year old) discover on waking up that their father has gone. They decide to search for him. Weary, they take refuge in a cinema theatre, where, one day, they believe to recognise their father on screen, and then they steal the film cans... ___ _9 p.m. LE PRIX DU PARDON \| THE PRICE OF FORGIVENESS_Mansour Sora Wade 1’30’’ \| fiction \| Senegal A thick fog covers a village in Senegal and stops the canoes from going to sea. The elderly religious leader is in his death bed and cannot perform the rites. His 20-yer-old son, Mbanik, gains the confidence of the population and captivates the young woman Maxoye. But his success ignites the envy of Yatma, his childhood friend... MARCH 22 \| TUESDAY _7 p.m. MOI ET MON BLANC \| ME AND MY WHITE_Pierre Yameogo 1’30’’ \| fiction \| Burkina Fasso Mamadi, a Burkina Faso student, and Frank, a Frenchman, are guards in a parking lot. Through the security camera monitors they follow the comings and goings, prostitution and trafficking. One night, Mamadi discovers a packet with drugs and money. They keep it, but they are pursued by the owners... They hide and then they fly to Ouagadougou... ___ _9 p.m. TASUMA LE FEU \| TASUMA, THE FIRE_Daniel Sanou Kollo 1’30’’ \| fiction \| Burkina Fasso Sogo Sanon, codename Tasuma, is an old gunner who has fought with the French army. He expects to receive his pension pay. When he goes to Bobo to collect it, he buys a mill on credit to help the women. But the pension does not come. MARCH 24 \| THURSDAY _7 p.m. NHA FALA_Flora Gomes 1’30’’ \| fiction \| Guinea-Bissau In Cape Verde, the events regulating social life are transformed into music. But in Vita’s family a legend threatens with death those who try to do it. In France, where she studies, she meets Pierre, a musician , with whom she falls in love. He convinces her to do a record, which becomes a success. But Vita has betrayed tradition, and returns home to confess to the family and to be punished. ___ _9 p.m. CONTES CRUELS DE LA GUERRE \| CRUEL WAR TALES_Ibea Atondi e Karim Miské 51’’ \| doc. \| Congo-Brazzaville, Mauritânia By means of the narration of his return to Congo-Brazzaville, Ibea Atondi casts a singular glance over the wars of contemporary Africa. MARCH 25 \| FRIDAY _7 p.m. HOUSE OF LOVE_Cecil Moller 26’’ \| doc. \| Namibia, South Africa Wedged between the sea and the desert, Welvis Bay port in Namibia is an open air prison for the women forced into prostitution. Cécil Moller collects their tales and their hope of redemption. ___ _9 p.m. POUSSIÈRES DE VILLE \| URBAN DUST_Moussa Touré 52’’ \| doc. \| Congo-Brazzaville, Senegal The film begins with the image of seven raggedy children in Brazzaville. Moussa Touré records their wanderings through the city and decides to return them to their families. MARCH 26 \| SATURDAY _7 p.m. MÉMOIRE ENTRE DEUX RIVES \| MEMORY BETWEEN TWO MARGINS_Frédéric Savoye e Wolimité Sié Palenfo 1’30’’ \| doc. \| Burkina Fasso The directors revisit the history of French colonisation in Lobi, Burkina Faso. There, the villages and families are still marked by the memory of this painful period. ___ _9 p.m. WA N'WINA (SINCERELY YOURS)_Dumisani Phakathi 52’’ \| doc. \| South Africa “Steps for the future” series Dumisani returns to his city in South Africa, to record how life is lived in these times of AIDS. With camera in hand, at the whim of chance meetings, he talks to childhood friends. MARCH 27 \| SUNDAY _7 p.m. SI-GUÉRIKI LA REINE-MÈRE \| SI-GUÉRIKI, QUEEN-MOTHER_Idrissou Mora Kpai 1’02’’ \| doc. \| Benin After a ten-year absence, Idrissou Mora Kpai returns to Benin to see the family again. During the trip, he discovers the one who had, always, done nothing but serve his father: his mother. ___ _ 9 p.m. ZIMBABWE COUNTDOWN_Michael Raeburn 55’’ \| doc. \| Zimbabwe The director revisits the events that, from the year 2000, pushed Zimbabwe into chaos and bankruptcy. Engaged in the struggle for the emancipation of Rhodesia before independence, shoulder to shoulder with Robert Mugabe, he retraces the path of him who beat Britisher Ian Smith and took over the Presidency for himself. MARCH 28 \| MONDAY _7 p.m. VACANCES AU PAYS \| HOLIDAYS AT HOME_Jean-Marie Teno 1’15’’ \| doc. \| Cameroon In 1998, Jean-Marie Teno returns to the land of his childhood, in Cameroon. From Yaoundé, a big city, to Badjoun, the village where he used to spend his holidays, he records an ironic inventory of the country’s situation. ___ _9 p.m. TRACES, EMPREINTES DE FEMMES \| TRACES, WOMEN'S FOOTPRINTS _Katy Léna NDiaye 52’’ \| doc. \| Senegal, Burkina Fasso The mural paintings by Burkina Faso kassena women are famed for their beauty. The film compares tradition and modernity, by means of the portrait of three elderly ladies and “their granddaughter”. MARCH 29 \| TUESDAY _7 p.m. RWANDA POUR MÉMOIRE \| RWANDA IN MEMORIAM_Samba Félix N’Diaye 1’08’’ \| Senegal \| 2003 Between April and July 1994, the massacre of Tutsis and moderate Hutus made a million victims. By initiative of Fest’Africa, African authors met for a workshop four years later. In May 2000, during the launch of works inspired in this experience, writers and artists meet in Rwanda. ___ _9 p.m. XALIMA LA PLUME \| XALIMA, THE FEATHER_Ousmane William M’Baye 51’’ \| doc. \| Senegal Precursor of folk Senegalese music, Seydina Insa Wade became famous in the 1970’s. In the 1980’s, he moved to France, and has increasingly faded from the memory of his fellow country people. On feeling the Senegal’s youth knew him too little, he returned to Dakar to record his latest works.
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