[Graduate-research-list] FW: Cambridge African Film Festival

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYSYMPOSIUM ON LIVING MEMORY IN AFRICAN FILM AND LITERATURE Sunday 8 May, 11am - 3pm McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: TSITSI DANGAREMBA KEN WIWA PATRICK WILLIAMS This symposium will be held in conjunction with the Fourth Cambridge African Film Festival, one of the major Africa05 events occurring across the UK this year. The symposium speakers will seek to explore how an individual and collective memory is activated through African literature and cinema, in order to challenge a repressive historical record or to claim a space for personal recollection. The Symposium is one of the events being held to commemorate the decade since the assassination of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and environmental activist. Download registration forms at www.cambridgeafricanfilmfestival.co.uk ********************************************************************* Fourth Cambridge African Film Festival 4 > -> 14 May www.cambridgeafricanfilmfestival.co.uk The only annual festival of African cinema in the UK, the Fourth CAFF is delighted to bring you the very best of contemporary and retrospective African film, as well as a range of academic, musical, spoken word, and educational events. As a partner of Africa05, the biggest celebration of African culture ever organised in Britain and inspired by the Commission for Africa, the festival is a rare opportunity to experience elements of Africa never seen before in the UK. Highlights include: * 23 films, including features, shorts, and documentaries from across the continent, ranging from Ethiopia to Rwanda * A Symposium on Living Memory in African Film and Literature, with keynote speakers Ken Wiwa (son of Ken Saro-Wiwa), Tsitsi Dangaremba, and Professor Patrick Williams * 10 UK premieres, including the much-awaited UN AMOUR D'ENFANT (Senegal), TASUMA (Burkina Faso), and HOLLOW CITY (Angola) * Early African Film Classics, including Borom Sarret (1963), Touki Bouki (1973), and Une Lettre Paysanne (1975) * Directors Ben Diogoye Beye (Senegal), Kethiwe Ngcobo (South Africa), Tsitsi Dangaremba (Zimbabwe), Ian Gabriel (South Africa), Safi Faye (Senegal), Rasmané Ganemtore (Burkina Faso), Teboho Edkins (Lesotho), and Khaled El Hagar (Egypt) in presence to talk to audiences about their films Booking, programme, and venue information available at our website. A special reduced-rate festival pass is available. Sponsored by: UK Film Council, Screen East, Cambridge Centre of African Studies, Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, British Council, Trinity College, Smuts Memorial Fund, South African High Commission, Routledge