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A Friday, Feb. 2 showing of The Oscar award-winning film “Tsotsi" at McMenamins Kennedy School,
opens the 17th Annual Cascade Festival of African Films. “Tsotsi, ’ the first South African film to win an
Oscar for Best Foreign Film, is a story of hope and the triumph of love over rage and violence.
An African mother and
daughter are caught
in crises that force
them to face their lot
as women in a rural
village in “Delwende,"
one of the feature
attractions during
Portland Community
College's 17th annual
Cascade Festival of
African Films.
Hilton Hotel Pavillion
921 SW 6th Ave/Portland, O R
Sun, February 18, 2007, 6:00 pm
Tickets $25— available at Tickets West
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Cascade Festival of African Films
A litany of hope, clashes
and love
Five wee ksoffilm sat Portland Community College's
17th A nnual C ascade Festival o f A frican Films will
honor both Black History and W om en’s History
m onths from Friday, Feb. 2 through M arch 3.
"T his y e a r's fi Ims cover a wide range o f them es and
topics, including the quest for freedom and justice,
theclash between tradition and modernity, love across
class lines, the im portance o f preserving A frica’s
artistic and cultural heritage, the exploration o f iden­
tity, culture, and sexuality, and w om en's ongoing,
inspiring struggle for equality and independence,”
said M ary H olm strom , film festival co-director.
T he film festival held mostly on PCC Cascade
C am pus in north Portland attracts more than 4,(XX)
attendees annually, offering film s from the African
continent and the African Diaspora.
Since its inception in 1991, the festival has been
organized and run by volunteers, and offered to the
public free o f charge.
T he festival will open with the aw ard-w inning
South African film, “T sotsi,"directed by G avin Hood,
on Friday, Feb. 2 at M cM enam ins K ennedy School,
5736 N.E. 33rd Ave. There will be tw o screenings at 7
p.m. and 9 p.m. “T sotsi,” the first South African film
to win an O scar for Best Foreign Fi Im, is a story o f hope
and the trium ph o f love over rage and violence.
A special festival highlight will be the celebration
o f G hana’s 50th anniversary o f its independence with
the renow ned G hanaian film director Kwaw P. Ansah
on Saturday, Feb. 3.
Ansah will show several o f his recent films as well
as tw o o f his classics, “Love Brew ed in the African
Pot,” one o f A frica's best loved com edies, and his
highly praised docum entary. “C rossroads o f People,
C rossroads o f Trade.”
The spotlight will also be on the A frican-A m erican
director T hom as Allen Harris and his film, “Tw elve
D isciples o f Nelson M andela: A S o n 's Tribute to
U nsung H eroes," on T hursday, Feb. 15. “Tw elve
D isciples" honors H arris' stepfather, Benjamin “Lee"
Pule L einaeng, and 11 o f L ee’s boyhood friends who
w ere am ong the first w ave o f anti-A partheid exiles
from South A frica in the 1960s. H arris's earlier film.
"T h at’s M y Face/E M inhaC ara,” set in Brazil, will be
shown at Portland State Uni versity on Friday, Feb. 16.
Kirikou, A frica’s bravest and littlest hero, returns
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