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February 14, 2001
The 11th Annual
Cascade Festival
of African Films
Schedule
This month o f February is an
exciting time for Portland Commu
nity College. A variety o f cultural
events are gracing PCC’scampuses
during the month to commemorate
Black History Month.
A ll ev en ts are free and open
to the public, including the cen
terp iece o f the c e le b ra tio n , the
11lh A nnual C ascad e F estiv al o f
A frican Film s, w hich is show ing
m ore than 20 film s.
The film festival will also pay trib
ute to the great Senegalese director
Djibril Diop Mambety, who died in
1998. In a partial retrospective, the
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had already been
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AFRICAN
films are “The Girl Who Sold
the Sun,” and two earlier
festival favorites: “Touki
Bouki” and “Hyenas”.
There is a new element to
the festival this year. On
Thursday evenings, a series
o f documentary films from
C am eroon, Sudan, Sierra
Leone, and South Africa are
planned.
As with the other evening
film showings, a discussion
will follow, generally by indi
viduals from those countries.
The film festival will continue
to have Thursday afternoon
matinees, beginning at noon.
This will be a chance for the
community to see the same
films that will be shown on
Friday and Saturday evenings.
Finally, "Kirikou” and ^ “Sor
ceress” (now in English) will
be shown for the Family Film
Day at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb.
17. Bring thechildrenforatime
o f storytelling, film and more.
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Schooland the Oregon Coun
cil for the Humanities sponsor
the 11* Annual Cascade Fes-
tivalofAfricanFilms. Formore
information, phone the infor-
mahon lineal503/244-6111 (ext
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JO ’BURG//f^waw7«w (1949,
SouthAfrica, 48 min.),directed
by Donald Swanson. In En
glish./ DOLLY AND TH E
INKS POTS (1997, South Af
rica, 28 min.), directedby Peter
Davis. In English.
Thursday, Feb. 15, noon,
andFriday.Feb. 16,7:30p.m.,
Terrell Hall, Rm. 122, PCC
Cascade Campus
When it appeared in 1949,
Jim Comes to J o ' Burg was
billed as “the first full-length
entertainment film to be made
in South AFrica with an all
native cast.” It is a simple,
familiar story, that of a young
man who leaves his village to
make it in the big city. It fea
tures a number o f stars from
the townships and was a sen
sation for Black audiences,
who had never before seen
their own heroes on screen. It
is followed by a documentary
by Peter Davis, which pays
tribute to some o f the stars o f
Films
Jim: the great blues singer
Dolly Rathebe and the African
Inkspots. We see them forty
years later and leam o f their reliance
on music to cany them through the
worst days o f Apartheid.
FINTARODESTINO/Drif.Wwjf
Fate (1998, Cape V erde/Portugal, 77
min.), directed by Fernando Vendrell.
Thursday, Feb. 15,2p.m.,andSatur-
day.Feb. 17, 7:30p.m., TerrellHall,
Rm. 122, PCC Cascade Campus.
Set in the Cape Verde Islands, this
is a film about foolish dreams, missed
opportunities, and reluctant under
standing. Like all the men on the
island. Mané dreamed o f escaping to
Portugal. He would do it through his
prowess on the soccer field. But he
gave up his dream in order to marry a
local girl and settle down, and he has
regrettediteversince. Fate,however,
has some tricky moves in store for
Mané. InPortugueseandCriolowith
English subtitles.
KIRIKOU AND THE SORCER
ESS (1998, FranceBelguim. 70 min.),
directed by Michel Ocelot. Saturday,
Feb. 17, 2 p.m., Terrell Hall, Room
122, PCC Cascade Campus.
ForFamily Film Day, there is this
charming animated children’s film
based on aCongolese folktale. It tells
the story o f Kirikou, a child bom in a
village upon which Karaba the sor
ceress has placed a terrible curse.
Kirikou sets out on a quest to free his
village of the curse and to find out the
secret o f why Karaba is so wicked.
This is an English version to make it
easier for young children to appreci
ate.
YELLOW CARD (2000, Zimba
bwe, 90 min.), directedby John Riber.
Thursday, Feb. 22, noon, and Fri
day, Feb. 23, 7:30p.m., TerrellHall,
Rroom 122, PCC Cascade Campus.
A product o f Media For Develop
ment (MFD), and is another film from
Zimbabwe that openly probes con
temporary issues. Seventeen-year-
oldTiyaneisabrightyoung man from
Highfields Township, a good stu
dent, a star striker for the Highfields
Hyenas soccer team, very attractive
to the young women, but his world
comes crashing down on him when
he discovers that he has somehow
become a father. A big hit in Zimba
bwe, the film has an infectious sound
track and characters we can all relate
to in English.