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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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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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the 11* Annual Cascade Fes-
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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.