February 3, 2016
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‘The Boda Boda Thieves,’ a new Uganda ilm coming this month to the annual Cascade Festival of African Films, plays Thursday, Feb. 11 at noon, and Friday, Feb. 12 at 7
p.m., on the PCC Cascade Campus in north Portland.
Films of Africa
Cascade campus
hosts 26th
annual festival
The longest-running African ilm
festival in the United States will fea-
ture more than 18 ilms, documentaries
and shorts.
Portland Community College’s Cas-
cade Festival of African Films is a
free and open to the public screening
of new ilms from across the African
continent. The month-long festival
embarks on its 26th year this week of-
fering Portlanders a rare opportunity to
see Africa through the eyes of Africans.
This year’s festival opens with back-
to-back screenings of “The Rooftops,”
a series of interlocking tales from Mer-
zak Allouache, Algeria’s preeminent
ilmmaker.
Allouache himself will be on hand to
introduce and discuss his ilm, which is
the focus of the festival’s opening-night
gala on Friday, Feb. 5, at the Hollywood
Theatre, 4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd. “The
Rooftops” will show twice during the
evening, at 6 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.
Audiences will also have the op-
portunity to meet director Yared Za-
leke, who was recently named as one
of Variety’s “Top 10 Screenwriters to
C ontinued on p age 15
‘Fièvres’ (Fevers) tells the tumultuous tale of a 13-year-old Moroccan boy who
learns after his mother is sent to prison that he has a father who lives in a poor
working-class neighborhood in Paris. The ilm plays Saturday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. on
the PCC Cascade campus in north Portland on the irst weekend of Portland Com-
munity College’s Cascade Festival of African Films.