Movie: Someone To Run With, Nov 23 2009 @ Alliance

SOMEONE TO RUN WITH
by Muishehu Larutz Ito (2006 – 1h58)
presented by the Embassy of Israel
Monday, 23 November, 6pm
With English subtitles, Entrance Free

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami International Film Festival. The film follows Assaf and Tamar on parallel timelines, highlighting the distance between them and the loneliness they must endure before their narratives finally converge. Assaf, a shy, awkward 17-year-old is given an impossible task to track down the owner of a lost Labrador found wandering the streets of Jerusalem. The owner, Tamar, a gifted musician is ensnared in a seamy underworld that captivates Assaf.

Screenings: Month of Documentary, Nov 16 2009 @ Alliance

Kenyan Movie: Preview of Togetherness Supreme, Nov 18 2009 @ Goethe-Institut

18.11. 2009 at 6pm, Entry free

In our series of outstanding and remarkable films from Africa we turn again to Kenya and get a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming feature film Togetherness Supreme, a follow up to the award-winning film Kibera Kid. Togetherness Supreme is the story of an artist, Kamau, seeking peace and the possibility of hope in the midst of tribal strife. The film that is currently being edited is a unique collaboration between slum youth and film professionals shot using Red One, the latest cutting edge digital cinema technology.

The audience is invited to learn how the film was made and see behind the scenes footage and films. Togetherness Supreme was produced by Hot Sun Films/Foundation.

More can be found on the blog kiberakid.blogspot.com.

Film Screenings: Europe Laughs, Nov 17 – Dec 17 2009 @ Goethe-Institut

Europe laughs -Film Screenings
17.11.2009 – 17.12.2009 at 5.30 pm
English Subtitles, Entry free
info: +254 20 2224640, prog@nairobi.goethe.org

This compilation of films presents a cross-section of most hilarious situations in the lives of people living in Europe, of individuals and families alike. All of them touch on the funny side of life as it presents itself: very normal or not always normal. Laughter guaranteed!

Tuesday 17. November 5.30 pm:
Schwarzfahrer by Pepe Dankwart, Germany 1991 (short film)
Polska Love Serenade by Monika Anna Wojtyllo, Germany 2007 (75 min)

Tuesday 24 November 5.30 pm
Flores de otro Mundo by Iciar Bollain, Spain 1999 (108 min)

Tuesday 1 December 5.30 pm
Just get married by Hussam Chadat, Syria/Germany 2003 (short film)
Geboren in Absurdistan by Houchang Allahyari and Tom Dariusch Allahyari, Austria 1999 (89 min)

Tuesday 8 December 5.30 pm
Padam by Juan Manuel Carrasco, Spain 2007 (short film)
Helsinki – Napoli all night long by Mika Kaurismäki, Finland 1987 (89 min)

Tuesday 15 December 5.30 pm
Die Sprachschule by Andi Bausch, Luxemburg 2006 (short film)
Red coloured Grey Truck by Srdjan Koljevic, Serbia/Montenegro/Slovenia 2004 (95 min)

Thursday 17 December 5.30 pm
Shouf shouf Habibi by Albert ter Heerdt, Netherlands 2004 (108 min)

Italian Movie: Bycicle Thieves, Nov 12 2009 @ Silverbird Westgate

Screening of the Oscar winning movie ‘Ladri di Biciclette’ (Bicycle Thieves) by Vittorio De Sica

1949 Honorary Oscar Award

Starring: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart
Running time: 104 minutes
In Italian, with English subtitles
Rated: G.E. (General Exhibition). Film censored by the Kenya Film Censorship Board.

Antonio Ricci, unemployed for over two years, is overjoyed when he’s finally given a job putting up posters. There’s a catch, though – he needs a bicycle as a requirement of the job, so he pawns the family linen to get a pawned bicycle back. He goes off to his first day’s work, truly happy for the first time in years – and the title of the film gives away what happens next…

At Westgate (Silverbird Cinemas)
on Thursday, 12th November 2009 at 8pm

Seating limited to 120 (first come first served)
For Members (card holders) of the Institute. Enrolment is also possible at the venue on any night on which the films are screened

Movie: MR73, Nov 9 2009 @ Alliance

MR73 by Oliver Marchal (2007 – 2h4)

Monday 9 November

With English subtitles, Entrance Free

A discredited and alcoholic detective Louis Schneider earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.

4th Kenya International Film Festival, Oct 21-31 2009

The Kenya International Film Festival is back, with an impressive 10 days of screenings in a number of venues around town.
The programme is so wide that it’s hard to recommend a single event.

You can download the full programme here

Don’t miss Wanuri Kahiu’s new film PUMZI – the first ever Kenyan Sci-Fi movie, premiering tonight, Oct 21 at National Museum, and playing again in the following days.

We’ll add more suggestions in the coming days – feel free to send recommendations about your favourite films at the Festival!

Italian Language Week Worldwide, Oct 21-27 2009 @ Italian Institute of Culture

Wednesday 21st October from 9.30 – 11.45am Italian Language Lesson
Free Italian language lesson From 9.30 -10.30 OR from 10.45 – 11.45 – booking is essential – Tel: 4451266 / 4451267).
At the Italian Institute of Culture (5th floor)

Wednesday 21st October at 5pm Italian Festa
“Festa Italiana” Screening of the film “Ho visto le stelle” by Vincenzo Salemme followed by an Italian buffet dinner – for Italian language students.
At the Italian Institute of Culture – Michelangelo Hall

Thursday 22nd October at 6.30 for 7pm Between Music and Cinema
Guitar concert by Italian musician and film director Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani with excerpts from his films & documentaries to illustrate the relationship between music and image. In the framework of the Kenya International Film Festival (KIFF):
“Music has become my ‘secret love’. I didn’t make a career of it, but I still play the guitar…”
“In my films and documentaries special attention is always given to the sound track…”
“My role and my satisfaction are to choose the composers and become a dynamic element in their creativity as their music will become a dynamic element in mine.”
At the Italian Institute of Culture – Michelangelo Hall

Friday 23rd October at 6.30 for 7pm Queen of Flowers and Pearls – a story of an Ethio-Italian writer
Performance and reading with author Gabriella Ghermandi with the participation of Poetry Salama.
With Gabriella Ghermandi the Institute commences a series of meetings with Italian writers of African origin to present the cultural diversity that the Italian language can offer and to create an exchange of experiences with Kenyan writers.
Gabriella Ghermandi will hold a seminar at the University of Nairobi on 22nd October.
At the Italian Institute of Culture – Michelangelo Hall

Saturday 24th October from 9.30 – 12.30pm and from 2.30 – 5.30pm. Seminar for Italian language teachers at the Italian Institute of Culture

Monday 26th October at 8pm Italian Oscar winning films
Inauguration of the complete series of Italian films awarded Oscars for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’
In the framework of the Kenya International Film Festival (KIFF). Please click here for the programme
At Nu Metro – Westgate

21st – 27th October from 11am to 4pm (excluding Saturday and Sunday) Futurism
Exhibition of reproduction of works by artist Mino Delle Site (1914 – 1996)
Viewing of his complete works on TV.
In commemoration of the centenary of the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s “Manifesto Futurista”, fundamental moment in the birth of contemporary art. At the Italian Institute of Culture (5th floor)

21st – 27th October from 11am to 4pm (excluding Saturday and Sunday) Guglielmo Marconi
Exhibition of panels on Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the radio. On the centenary of the awarding of his Nobel Prize for Physics (1909). At the Italian Institute of Culture (5th floor)

Italian Institute of Culture
Grenadier Tower (opposite Jacaranda Hotel – same building as Barclays Bank in Westlands)
Tel: 4451266 / 7
Website: www.iicnairobi.esteri.it

Movie screenings: Pumzi (ke) + The Lives of Others (de), Oct 22 2009 @ Goethe-Institut

Within the framework of the German Cultural Weeks 2009, and as a contribution to the 4th Edition of the Kenya International Film Festival, the Goethe-Institut presents two outstanding films.

5.00 pm:
Pumzi, Kenya 2009 (20 min), by Wanuri Kahiu, her brandnew SciFi film about futuristic Africa, coproduced by the Goethe-Institut.

5.20 pm:
Das Leben der Anderen/The Lives of Others, 2006 (132 min), by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
In November 1984 Gerd Wiesler, captain in the (former) East German State Security Ministry, is put on the case of author Georg Dreymann. What Wiesler learns through eavesdropping leads to his enlightenment.
The film won 60 national and international prizes, including the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film 2007.

Slum TV Screening, Oct 21 2009 @ Goethe-Institut

Continuing the partnership and the regular SLUM-TV sessions at the Goethe-Institut, the group will show their recent work which is usually screened on a monthly basis in a public space in Mathare, a slum of 500,000 people in Nairobi. Since 2005, SLUM-TV’s young filmmakers have been producing and distributing local, grassroots audio-visualmaterial. The form of the material ranges from documentary features, to drama and comedies produced by youth drama groups. Thus it functions like a ‘newsreel’ and provides the slum dwellers with a form of local news and of self-representation so that they can begin to tell their own stories and off er a more accurate portrait of slum life.

In cooperation with www.slum-tv.org.

CANCELED – French Movie: La Squale, Oct 12 2009 @ Alliance

This event has been canceled

LA SQUALE
by Fabrice Genestal (2000 – 1h40)

Monday 12 October at 6pm
With English subtitles, Entrance Free

Désirée, nicknamed “La Squale,” is a recent arrival at a ghetto school, and believes she is the daughter of the legendary gang leader, Souleymane. She falls in love with Toussaint, a local hoodlum who only has eyes for Yasmine, a quiet and shy girl…

more on this film on IMDb

Giacomo Puccini’s life through his operas, Oct 15 2009 @ Italian Institute of Culture

DVD projection and live participation by coloratura Soprano Doreen Ziegler accompanied on the piano by Paul Nduati

PROGRAMME for 15th October 2009
(Puccini’s life from 1910 to 1924)

1. “LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST” (premiered on 10th December 1910 at the New York MET
Closing scene
Extracts from a Royal Opera House production with Placido Domingo and Carol Neblett

2. “LA RONDINE” (premiered on 27th March 1917 Opera Monte Carlo)
“Il bel Sogno di Loretta” by Doreen Ziegler (performed live)
Extracts from Teatro La Fenice production Venice with
Fiorenza Cedolins and Fernando Portari

3. Il TRITTICO :
Three short operas to be shown together (premiered on 14th April 1926 at Teatro La Scala Milan)
- “IL TABARRO” extract from the New York MET production with Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas
- “SUOR ANGELICA” extract from La Scala production with Rosalind Plowright
- “GIANNI SCHICCHI’ “ Oh mio babbino caro” by Doreen Ziegler (performed live)

4. “TURANDOT” unfinished last opera (premiered posthumously on 15th April 1926 at La Scala Milan)
Liu’s arias “Signore Ascolta” by Doreen Ziegler (performed live)
“Nessun Dorma” extract from a New York MET production with Placido Domingo

Movie: The Nubian Question in Kenya, Oct 5 2009 @ Alliance

THE NUBIAN QUESTION IN KENYA
by Khamis Ramadhan (2009 – 27 min)
presented by Community Images, a Pamoja Film Initiative

Monday 5 October at 6pm
In English, Entrance Free

The film brings forth the plight of the Nubians who reside in Kibra (now known as Kibera). The production revists history and discusses the origins of the community, the struggle to own land and their effort to preserve their identity and culture.

Movie: Les Deux Mondes, Sep 28 2009 @ Alliance

LES DEUX MONDES
by Daniel Cohen (2007 – 1h45)

Monday 28 September at 6pm
With English subtitles, Entrance Free

An adventure comedy. The villagers of Bégaméni chant invocations to be saved from a cannibal tyrant. In another world, Rémy, having lost his job and wife, finds himself transported to Bégaméni, welcomed by the villagers as the long awaited savior

French Movie: Vent Mauvais, Sep 14 2009 @ Alliance

VENT MAUVAIS
by Stépahne Allagono (2007 – 1h37)
Monday 14 September
with English subtitles, Entrance Free

Sent to fix the computer system of a supermarket, Franck discovers that the software was tempered with to embezzle funds from the cash registers…

Cinema Japan: Twilight Samurai, Sep 16 2009 @ JICC

Wednesday 16th September 2009 at Japan Information and Culture Centre, Upper Hill
5.45 pm to 6.00 pm Japan Video Topics
6.00 pm Japanese Feature Film “Twilight Samurai” (Director: YAMADA Yoji)
To see the poster, go to http://www.ke.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc.htm
Admission: Free

Indian Movie: Sholay, Sep 7 2009 @ Alliance

SHOLAY
by Ramesh Sippy (1975 – 3h19)
presented by the Indian High Commission in Kenya,

Monday, 7 September, 6pm, with English subtiles, Entrance Free

All time classic, the film was voted ‘Best Film in 50 years’ at the 50th Film fare Awards in 2005. This is a story of a valiant police officer who captures the dreaded dacoit Gabbar Singh and brings him to book. Gabbar however escapes from prison and avenges his arrest by murdering Thakur’s family. Thakur hires two convicts to recapture Gabbar…..

Festival: Images of Kenya, Sep 8 – 10 2009 @ Goethe-Institut

Images of Kenya – 8th Edition of the annual showcase
Film Screenings, Tuesday to Thursday at 6.00 pm
info: +254 20 2224640, prog@nairobi.goethe.org

This is the popular annual showcase for documentary films produced in Kenya. It presents films covering a cross section of Kenya’s cultural and tourism potential, held in conjunction with the Department of Film Services in the Ministry of Information and Communications. As usual, one day of the screenings is dedicated to the final works of Kenya Institute of Mass Communication graduates.

French Movie: Sur Mes Levres, Aug 31 2009 @ Alliance

SUR MES LEVRES
by Jacques Audiard (2001 – 1h55)

Monday, 31 August at 6pm in the Auditorium of the Alliance Francaise
With English subtitles, Entrance Free

Carla is a hard working secretary in a real estate agency and has had enough. But what more can one expect when one is a woman in a man’s world, when one is 35yrs old with a hearing aid in each ear….

More about this movie on IMDb

Movie: Actrices, Aug 24 2009 @ Alliance

ACTRICES
by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (2007 – 1h47)
Monday, 24 August, 6pm
with English subtitles, Entrance Free

Actress, Marceline is struggling to rehearse for her role of Nathalia Petrovna, heroin of the play ‘A month in the countryside’ by Tourgueniev. At forty she is still single and childless. She desperately searches for answers to her role in life, negotiating with the Virgin Saint, her mother and the ghost of her father….

U.S. – Kenya Sinema : A documentary showcase and workshops, Aug 15 2009 @ Prestige Cinema & Goethe

U.S. – Kenya Sinema : A documentary showcase
Screenings in Nairobi: Aug 15th 2009
Silverbird Prestige Cinema 10.00 am—9.00 pm
Programme:
AUTISM, THE MUSICAL
EMPOWERING THE YARD (SHORT)
FRONTRUNNERS
THE HOBART SHAKESPEAREANS
A MAN NAMED PEARL
MISS NAVAJO
THE ORDER OF MYTHS
RED GOLD
STREET FIGHT
MO & ME: THE STORY OF AFRICA’S GREATEST PHOTOJOURNALIST
A VOICE IN THE DARK
UNCOVERING THE MEDIA
AND OTHERS

FILMMAKER WORKSHOPS AT GOETHE INSTITUT NAIROBI
To register send e-mail to info@filmingkenya.com, subject line “documentary showcase” and note workshop
preference.

1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
1) Screenwriting for Beginners
2) Master Class: Screenwriting
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
1) Production/Directing for Beginners
2) Master Class: Production/Directing

Turkish Movie: Mutluluk, Aug 17 2009 @ Alliance

MUTLULUK by Abdullah Ogluz (2007 – 2h06)
an award winning film presented by the Embassy of Turkey
Monday, 17 August, 6pm
With English subtitles, Entrance Free

When young Meryem is raped, her village custom requires that she be killed in order for the dishonor to be expunged from her family. Cemal, the son of the village leader, is given the task but at the last moment he has doubts. The pair go on the run and meet Irfan, an ex-university professor who is embarking on a sailing trip, and needs a crew. Together this unlikely trio set forth on a voyage that will change all of their lives.

Lola Kenya Screen Film Festival, Aug 10 – 15 2009 @ Goethe-Institut

Lola Kenya Screen is the only festival exclusively designed for children and youth on the African continent. It was established in October 2005 to explore, identify and nurture creative talents among children and youth in the areas of filmmaking, cultural journalism, events planning and presentation. Lola Kenya Screen productions won the Kids for Kids Africa Grand Prize in 2007 and 2008, and the Special Jury Prize at 17th Jugend Medien Festival Berlin 2008, and Best Animation and Best Short Documentary nominations for the Africa Movie Awards 2009.

Screenings at Goethe-Institut Auditorium

Monday to Saturday: 9.00 am – 12.30 pm: Screenings for children up to 13 years
Monday to Saturday: 2.00 pm – 8.00 pm: Screenings for children from 14 years and above

For more information visit www.lolakenyascreen.org

Movie: Cartouches Gauloises, Aug 10 2009 @ Alliance

CARTOUCHES GAULOISES
by Mehdi Charef (2007 – 1h29)
Monday, 10 August at 6pm
With English subtitles, Entrance Free

Spring, 1962, before the summer of Algerian Independence. Ali, 11, sells newspapers. His world is that of war and childhood. His best friend Nico is French. The two boys see their world changing, and make believe that Nico will never leave.

Screening: Greening Africa, Healing The Nation & The Cut, Aug 3 2009 @ Alliance

GREENING AFRICA, HEALING THE NATION & THE CUT
by Simiyu Sirucha (1h00)
a Pamoja Film Initiative

Monday 3 August, 6pm
in English, Entrance Free

Short documentaries by Simiyu Sirucha screened in the presence of the director. ‘Green Africa’ centres on the environmental campaigns of Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, ‘Healing the Nation’ is about the events that unfolded after the disputed elections of December 2007 and ‘The Cut’ traces the history and the aesthetic meaning of the ritual practice of circumcision among the Bukusu of Western Kenya.