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ernando Solanas once said that “We realized that the important thing was not the film itself but that which the film provoked.”

I believe that Documentary Film is a multi- dimensional tool that helps us to gain insight into other cultures and allow us to migrate our mind to under-standing others which is the first step towards tolerance.And now I am taking the first step towards tolerance, understanding and improved human relations through the Film Africa documentary film festival.

After seven years as festival director of The Kenya International Film Festival, My love and passion for documentaries, especially touching on human rights, have led me to resign and peruse this project of my dreams.

The Film Africa documentary festival is organised with the view to foster exchange of ideas, experiences thereby creating a common understanding of the way forward in reviving African cultural values and making culture serve the larger cause of African renaissance.

Culture has gained a stranger place in the recent past and offers us an excellent forum to review the existing legislations in the individual countries, which in many cases are very much inspired by European laws and which are always adapted to the present African realities.

Film Africa Documentary Festival will give film makers a rare opportunity to showcase their creative works that would otherwise not have been screened on the local screens or cinema halls. It is a great forum to screen films on human rights and other pertinent social issues worldwide

The festival will offer an excellent opportunity for participants to share knowledge about cultural heritage of different communities at the international level while promoting intellectual dialogue and encouraging mutual respect through great documentaries and exchange of expertise.

The introduction of ‘one minute film’ project by Film Africa, is meant to not only encourage a cinema culture but to also give basic knowledge on filmmaking in Kenya.

Through this festival we can carry out an inventory of the protec-tion and promotion of African cultural goods, so that we can approach cultural development with more practical and prag-matic way and find ways of upgrading the national legislation, modernization of African cultural goods like film.

I’m happy to be part of this big Africa dream and hope this dream will one day become a reality.

he Goethe-Institut is the cultural institution of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. The Goethe-Institut Kenya opened its doors officially on 3rd April 1963, and we celebrate this special anniversary together with our host country Kenya, having gained its independence in December 1963.

We promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. We convey a comprehensive picture of Germany by providing information on Germany’s cultural, social and political life. An important aspect of the Goethe-Institut Nairobi is to promote international cultural cooperation by organising a broad variety of events. We draw on the rich activities of our many-faceted open society and Germany’s lively culture. We combine the experiences and conceptions of our Kenyan and German partners with our professional skills, and engage in a dialogue rooted in active relations, with and for everyone taking an active interest in Germany and the German language and culture, and we act independently with no political affiliations.

The Goethe-Institut Nairobi offers workshops and teacher training seminars for teachers of German as a second language, and also provides an extensive examination programme. Learning about German life and culture is an integral part of our language courses.

The information centre of the Goethe-Institut Nairobi serves as a resource for those interested in contem-porary Germany, and for those interested in teaching and studying German as a foreign language. More than 5,000 books, videos, audio-cassettes, DVDs, CD-ROMs and computer software are available. In addition, we offer computers for access to the internet in Germany and an extensive on-line directory of relevant German websites.

It is our great pleasure to host the first edition of Film Africa Documentary Film Festival.

Welcome at Goethe-Institut Kenya!

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Charles ASIBA

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Dr. Nina Wichmann,Director

Barbara Reich,Cultural Programme Officer

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Monday 4th November 2013

GOETHE-INSTITUTSeminar RoomREGISTRATION Workshop: Documentary Film making Master class by

Neelima Mathur from Formedia/India

AUDITORIUM13.00 MAKERS OF THE NATION JOMO KENYATTA 79’ Dir: Prof. Hilary Ng’weno

WHY DEMOCRACY SELECTION14:30 The Iron Ladies of Liberia 52’ Dir: Daniel Jungle15.00 Silken Synergy 52’16.00 Beyond Limits 29’ A production of michezo

Afrika Ltd

NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYAThe Official Opening Ceremony / Opening Film

‘The Captain And His Pirate’ Directed by Andy Wolff and Brockhaus

Tuesday 5th November 2013

GOETHE-INSTITUTSeminar Room08.30 – 12.30Workshop: Documentary Film making Master class by

Neelima Mathur from Formedia/India

NATIONAL THEATRE09.00 - CONFERENCE: IS THERE A FUTURE FOR THE

FILM AND TELEVISION IN KENYA COME AND DISCUSS WITH OUR PANEL OF GUESTS

1. Marketing and distribution of Films 2. Piracy and copyright and other related rights 3. Panelist(1) Hans Broscher(2) Samira Haddi(3) Maresella Ouma - CEO, Head of Kenya Copyright

Board

GOETHE-INSTITUTAuditorium13:00 Makers of a Nation 75’

(OGINGA ODINGA) Dir: Prof.Hilary Ng’weno (Kenya)

14:20 Invoking justice 86’ Dir: Deep Dhanraj (India)

16:30 Bringing Diagnostic to the point ( The National Museums of Kenya production)

NATIONAL THEATRE14.00 - 5.00pmDISCUSSION THE YOUTH ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FUND1. Financing and funding films2. Film as a business

GOETHE-INSTITUTAuditorium17:30 Mama Africa 88’Dir: Mika Kaurishmaki19:00 African DJINN / The Behind the scenes. Dir;

Robby Bression20:20 Haunted Souls 30’Dir: Godwin Otwoma (Kenya/

Uganda

Wednesday 6th November 2013

GOETHE-INSTITUTSeminar Room08:30 – 12:30 Workshop: Documentary Film making Master

class by Neelima Mathur from Formedia/India2.30 Poison Dir. Peter Heller, Germany / Austria,

GOETHE-INSTITUT‑Presentation of Zippy Kimundu film collection.17:30 She’s jazzing Singapore 24’17.55 Mother’s Song 12’18.:00 Burnt Forest 24’18: 30 Give Me Back My Home 23’

WHY POVERTY FILMS19.00 Stealing Africa 58 Dir; Christoffer Goudbrandsen20.00 Poop on Poverty

he Austrian Embassy in Nairobi is delighted to invite you, in cooperation with Goethe-Institut, to the presentation of the “Austrian Short Film Screening” on the occasion of the “Film Africa Documentary Festival”, which will take place from 4th to 9th November, 2013.

Starting in 2012, the Austrian Ministry for Eu-ropean and International Affairs, in cooperation with the Austrian Film Academy, is presenting a series of outstanding Austrian short films at select Embassies and Cultural Fora abroad. It is therefore a particular pleasure for us to wel-come the Austrian Short Film Screening in Nai-robi. We are delighted to be able to welcome Austrian film producer Gabriele Mathes for screenings and a film workshop at the Goethe-Institut.

Gabriele Mathes, Film Director, born 1960 in Wels/Austria Studied English Language and Literature, Philosophy and Art History. Joined the “Filmakademie Wien” in 1985. Most of her short films are documentary films. Since 2006, Gabriele Mathes is the director of “wienervideo&filmtage”, a film festival for chil-dren and youth. For the UEFA European Foot-ball Championship 2008, she co-produced the Austrian-German soccer short film “Eleven Minutes”.

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Thursday 7th November 2013

GOETHE-INSTITUTSeminar Room08.30 – 12.30Workshop: Documentary Film making Master class by

Neelima Mathur from Formedia/India

AUDITORIUM13.:00 When HARI Got Married 75’ Dir: Ritusarin

and Tenzing Sonam (India)14:20 STUDENT SPECIAL SESSION LAUNCH OF THE ONE MINUTE FILM A presentation by AGHA KHAN ACADEMY

FILM CLASS 15.00 Please Vote for me16.15 Dancing Prandays’ 75’ Dir: Sudheer Gupta

(India)

SHORT FILM CORNERPresentation of Austrian Filmmaker17.30 366 12’Dir: Johannes Schiehel17.45 Branded 11’ Dir: Michael Rittmanster17:58 Arcane 11’ Dir: Henry Hills18.10 Conference 8’ Dir: Norbert Pfaffenbichler18.20 Endeavour 16’ Dir: Johann Lurf

WHY POVERTY FILMS18.40 Land Rush 58’ Dir; Hugo Berkley & Osvalde

Lewat19.35 Poop Solar Mamas 58’ Dir: Jehane Noujaim &

Mona Eldaiff

Friday 8th November 2013

GOETHE-INSTITUTSeminar Room08.30 – 12.30Workshop: Documentary Film making Master class by

Neelima Mathur from Formedia/India

AUDITORIUM13:00 The Last Safari 76’ Dir: Matt Goldman ( Kenya

/USAShort Film Corner / Austrian Shorts.14.30 Message in the bottle 30’ Dir: Gabriele

Mather15:00 Hatch 19’ Dir: Christoph Kuschnig15: 20 Hero – Chancellor 13’ Dir: Benjamin Swicz-

insky 15. 35 Hypercrisis 17’ Dir: Josef Dabernig15.55 In the Open 23’ Dir: Albert Sackl 16.15 A piece of Summer

DOK LEIP ZIG SELECTION17.30 life in Stills 58’Dir: Tamar Tal 18. 30 I will Forget This Day 25’ Dir: Alina Rud-

nickaja19.00 Agentinian Lesson 56’ Dir: Wojciech Staron 20.00 Inbetweener 14’Dir; Erik Bafving20.20 WHY POVERTY SERIES Miseducation Morris’BAG

Saturday 9th November 2013

GOETHE‑INSTITUTAuditorium10.00 The Ccaptain and his Pirate Makers of a Nation

The Cut 45’14: 00 County Newstadt 5’Dir: Johann Lurf14: 06 Taylor Shop 5’ Dir: Kurdwin Ayub14: 12 Summer Holiday 3’ Dir: Kurdwin Ayub14: 15 The Way to M 8’ Dir: Zsu Zsanna Werner 14:25 Our song 29’ Dir: Catalina Molina 15:00 Zounk! 6’ Dir Billy: Roisz15.10 Rythm is It 100’

18.00 Closing ceremony and special prizes

Jomo KenyattaThis is the story of the life and times of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president. No one had a greater impact on Kenya’s history than he did. No leader elicited such intense emotions from friend and foe alike. Few African heads of state had such total control of the affairs of their nations as he did. Few could match his ruthlessness in the conduct of politics, and probably none were held in greater awe and esteem by their fellow citizens than this legendary freedom fighter. This documentary is one among dozens of biographical TV documentaries written and directed by Hillary Ng’weno in the Kenyan Heritage Series Makers of a Nation that features the lives and times of prominent men and women who have made a major contribution to Kenya’s history.

Makers of a Nation (Oginga Odinga)This is the story of the life and times of Oginga Odinga, Kenya’s first vice president who helped shape the country’s politics for nearly four decades. At the height of the cold war between the western capitalists’ nations, led by the Soviet Union, he chose the socialist path as the ideal for Kenya’s economic development and would end up losing the ideological battle to Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first President and other western-learning leaders in the country. He will spend years politically shackled by the govern-ment, but would in the end play a pivotal role in the returning Kenya to some semblance of democratic rule.

A Bunch Of CreativesAn exploration of the creative economy/sector in Kenya told through the witness of various play-ers.

Haunted SoulsA young woman in Northern Uganda, abducted as a child and forced into the LRA activities is trying to rebuild her life after the army has pushed out the LRA. But her former abductor an obsessed LRA commander, sneaks back from central Africa looking for her. She has to use all her wits to stay ahead.

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Demysfiying the JudiciaryTrocaire through its partners has been working to improve access to justice and enhance ac-countability and protection of human rights by establishing and strengthening court user commit-tees. This project has been made possible by the funding from the European Union through the Ministry of Justice National Cohension and constitutional affairs. The concept and benefits of the court users committees is told in this video; highlighting improved access to justice, coordination and collaboration among actors in the justice system.

The Children ParliamentThe children’s parliament project was started in the efforts to empower pupils to actively partici-pate in the making decisions on issues affecting them both at school and at home. A deviation from the traditional – way where decisions are made for the children without getting their views or suggestions. The overall of the children Parliament is to give a voice to the child.

The CutA circumcised girl is like a stone…..The Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania are still practicing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a ritual. It is pain-ful and even dangerous. The older generation and peer pressure want to uphold the legacy of the ancestors….but the effect of the genera-tional practice has created a mixed feeling in the young generation in the 21st century. So what can human right activists do?

Solar MamasRafea is the second wife of a Bedouin husband. She is selected to attend the Barefoot college in India that takes uneducated middle aged women from poor communities and train them to become solar engineers, creating energy and jobs in their communities. The college’s of six months bring together women from all over the world, learning about electrical components and soldering without being able to read, write or understand English is the easy part.

Witness Rafea’s efforts to pull hershelf and her family out of poverty.

Iron Ladies of LiberiaAfter nearly two decades of civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. On January 16th 2006, Ellen Jahnson Sirleaf was appointed the first-ever freely elected female head of state in Africa. Since taking over office in a hotly contested election, she has appointed other extra ordinary women to leadership positions in all areas of govern-ment. Will the first female Liberian president backed by other powerful women bring sustainable democracy and peace to such a devastated country? Iron Ladies of Liberia gives the viewer behind –the – scenes access to Sirleaf’s cabinet meetings and provides a unique insight

into a newly elected Africa government. How does she lead Liberia, a nation ready for change, in its first year of democratic rule after nearly two decade of civil war?

Land Rush75% of Mali’s population are farmers, but rich,Land – hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali’s land in order to turn large areas into agribusiness farms. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism. As Mali experiences a military coup, the developers are scared off – but can Mali’s farmers combat food shortage and escape poverty on their own terms?

Stealing AfricaRuschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident – Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, the

film descries the tax system employed by multinational companies in Africa.

Please Vote For MeIn an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China, eight-year-old children compete for position of Class monitor. Their parents , devoted to their only child, take part and start to influence the results. Weijun Chen has conducted an experiment in democracy that serves as a microcosm of electoral systems all over the world. A grade-3 class at Evergreen Primary have their first encounter with this idea by holding an election to select a Class Monitor. The purpose of Weijun Chen’s experiment is to determine how, if democracy came to China, it would be received. This bittersweet representation of democracy is also a portrait if a society and a tow through a school, its children and its families.

When You Empower A Woman, You Empower A Family and A Whole NationThe Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) is an initiative of the Kenyan government to provide ac-cessible and affordable credit to support women start and/or expand business for wealth and employment creation. It is a flagship project under the social pillar in Vision 2030 and is also a demonstration of the Kenyan Government’s commitment to the realization o the Millennium De-velopment Goal (MDG) on gender equality and women empowerment. This video documentary captures the vision, mission and milestones so far made and the challenges being faced as far as empowering the Kenyan women concerned.

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But the survivors returned. They cleared away debris, bones and skulls and begun to build a new life out of nothing. For her debut film, The Mexican-Salvadorian director Tatiana Huezo went back to her own roots to portray her grandmothers birthplace. In breathtaking images by cinematog-rapher Ernesto Pardo and a separate soundtrack of interviews Huezo talks about village life and coping with trauma in the midst of a forest where the voices of the dead can still be heard.

Book of MiriMiri is 33. She was born in Korea, was adopted and went to Sweden at the age of three. She lives alone with her two cats in a Swedish town and works as a librarian. Her life does not seem very exciting, but her style of dress more than makes up for this. She combines of-the-rack pieces of vintage chic. Colourful, whacky, feminine, extravagant. She writes daily blogs, takes pictures of herself and the things around her and uploads them on the internet. The black cat, the cup with the tea-bag, the white cat, her latest handbag, and again and again, herself in a new outfit. She shares her thoughts, everyday incidents of her life with her friends in the virtual world. Miri calls herself a loner, says she likes to be alone and need solitude. But we also see a young woman wanting to be noticed, celebrating her individuality and looking for her true self. “Book of Miri” reflects the mood of the iPod lifestyle generation-some-where between Wallpaper and H&M- with a strong need to share their lives with the world. A film about the search for identity, self- exposure and the dreams of a blogger.

Life in StillsThere is no other way to put it: Miriam Weissenstein is an institution in Tel Aviv end the lives of all who are close to here, especially her grandson Ben. He has taken over the photo studio of his grandparents, who recorded the building of the young state of Israel from the beginning, in pictures celebrated across the world today. In spite of the fundamental relevance of these documents of a pioneer generation to the national identity of Israel, which the film communicates clearly, the modern age’s bulldozers do not spare the old shop. It’s to make way for a new build-

ing and it’s patron to start over at the age of 96. The moment comes when even Miriam Weissenstein, a woman with an extremely sharp tongue who keeps giving all and sundry an ear-ful and who you’d rather not have as an enemy, almost looses courage…..

This heart-warming film relies on the constant shifts between Jewish humor, even ruthless sarcasm that completely disregards all political or any other kind “Correctness” (including towards her gay grandson) and intimate moments of vulnerability and pain caused by a casually revealed family tragedy that casts a

Crafting The BamasabaCrafting the Bamasaba presents the ritual process of Imbalu(circumcision) beyond the physical cut. This is the most important identity ritual among the Bagisu. In the context of changing times and challenges how is Imbalu posi-tioned in the community? These aree some of the themes addressed.

A Piece of SummerThe old man, his grandson and the forest. A sensualist pastoral scene from the area over the hills-fairytale country. The old man is a charcoal burner ,a bulky figure marked by a strenuous profession, but almost always cheerful and caring

through and through. The boy is probably spending the last summer of his childhood there. They don’t have much to talk about, but why talk when the forest with its incredibly tapestry of sounds is omnipresent. At some point a few words are spoken after all: the boy climbed a tree, assisted by his grandfather. The old man asks “What do you see from up there?”The boy, ” The same as from down there. Just from above.” ”But can you see the sunrise better?” ”Yes.” These holidays must be paradise for the boy. But it is a paradise without a perspective, expulsion guaranteed, for which sensible young man would want to be a charcoal burner today? The old man and his grandson don’t talk about this, but they know. For now they enjoy the glittering lake, washing themselves in the brook with the fish that may bite. Or maybe not. Carpe diem.

The Captain and His PirateFor four months in 2009, the German freighter “Hansa Stavangar” was in the hands of pirates of the Somalian coast. After its spectacular release, magazine covers showed a captain happy to have narrowly escaped the barbarian terror. Andy Wolff is interested in the deeper layers, the invisible story behind the headlines, which he recounts exclusively from two protagonists points of view: the pirate leader, Ahado, an eloquent, intelligent young man, the captain, Krysztof Kotiuk. The former, who grew up amidst bomb attacks in Mogadishu, expecting to die at any moment, has nothing to loose. The latter will be left with nothing in the end. When weeks pass with no help coming from Germany, he decides to co-operate with the enemies in a desperate attempt to save his ship and crew. When both crew and company turn their backs on him in the end, that enemy becomes his only confidant. Step by step the tragedy of two people who were destined to be enemies in the war we’re all part of and yet became friends is revealed. What’s left when the roles we play all moral categories and certainties implode? And what is it like for those who have no chance in the first place? A psychological drama that addresses existential questions of war and being human.

The Tinniest PlaceTheir faces say it all. A series of photograph-like portraits opens this quiet film which nonetheless has an immense power. When the inhabitants of the village of Cinquera open up in front of the camera they reveal scarred souls and an unshakeable dignity. During the civil war in El Salvador, which shook the country from 1979 to 1992, Cinquera was leveled to the ground because the village was believed to be a stronghold of the guerrillas who fought against the military regime.

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InbetweenerSometimes it takes very little to tell a great story. Erik Bafving (Golden Dove 2002 with “Boogie Woogie Daddy”) needs no more than a small selection of family photos and teenager’s drawings for the visual level of “Inbetweener”, his unobtrusive narrator’s voice, some illustrating sounds and Gustav Wall’s low-key music for the sound level. But the precision with which Bafving employs them and the story he tells are both gripping and touching, distressing and encouraging. Erik Bafving was 15 years old when his greatest fear became reality and his father committed suicide. What was left was a memory of a loving man whose depression had driven him deeper into isolation. His death was no surprise to the boy and left him more or less unaffected. The trauma, however, burrowed deep into his soul and left the legacy of a heavy burden on him for years. Until the moment when he come to terms of the past. Until he produced this film which closes with a light shining at the end of the tunnel.

Nostalgia For The LightNostalgia or longing for the light as a metaphor of our foremost duty, the search for the truth, which is inseparably linked to the fight against forgetting. In Patricio Guzman’s beautifully composed film essay about the work of remembrance, the gateway to the past opens in the Chilean Atacama desert, the driest place on our planet. This is where the telescopes of the observatories are pointed at the transparent nocturnal sky. This is where light reaches us that’s billions of years old and reveals the secrets to which we owe our existence. At the same time, only a few kilometers away, women are digging for bones of the “Disappeared” of Pinochet’s dictatorship, who were killed in the desert and buried in secret mass graves. Archaeologists of space and archaeologists of society. In this in-hospitable place, where the remains of human civilization are frozen in time and the dead bodies never decay, the women uncover layer upon layer of the past, rescuing the dictator’s victims from social

oblivion. This does not relieve individual pain, but it helps to close the cycle of life. For the oldest ma-terial of our solar system-calcium-is found both in the stars and in human bones. It is both comfort-ing and poetic to think that we will be remembered, linked as we are to the universe. Perhaps.

When Hari Got MarriedHari, a taxi driver in the Indian Himalaya, is getting married to Suman, a girl he has never met. Tradition dic-tates that they will only see each other on the day of their wedding. But Hari has found another way of getting to know her: on the mobile phone. Over the past few months they have spoken to each other every day and have fallen in love. Hari’s unusual courtship and marriage provide a warm and illuminating insight into the changes taking place in India as modernization and globalization collide with age-old traditions and customs.

shadow over everything. Each of the (often repeated) shots is carefully, even lovingly framed. As if the pictures were meant to remind us that we must go forward-no matter how much the past weighs us down.

I Will Forget This DayThe camera remains fixed on the women’s faces to give us an idea what they are thinking. They can still change their minds in this waiting room before they enter the operating room for their “procedure”. But the truth is that the die has long been cast-against a child, because their finan-cial situation simply does not allow it or because the father does not want it. In Russia, where abortion used to be just another form of contraception, the women’s motives may have changed, but statistically there are still a lot who take this step. Alina Rudnickaja, one of the most interest-ing and successful documentary filmmakers from St. Petersburg, enters this essentially taboo place. She describes what is happening in serial form, gives a rhythm to the waiting. The getting up, the closing doors, the transport on a gurney. And yet the precision of her framing, every calculated pan and the severe black and white allow us to perceive the women as individuals. In the same way she banned all colour from the images, Rudnickaja also muffled all sounds. In this cold silence the women seem even more isolated. It’s the director’s brilliant use of her visual tools which makes the subject appear less like “women’s business” and more like an existential decision about life and death.

Argentinian LessonA perplexing film. How can the two child protagonists be so unimpressed by the presence of the camera? And how come the camera is always there when events coalesce into dramatic

highlights worthy of a feature film? The answer is easy: the cameraman and director is the boy’s father. And he makes no bones about the fact that he employs feature film elements to uncover a core of truth that would otherwise remain hidden. Wojciech Staron, the cameraman of last year’s Golden Dove winner “Vodka Factory”, presents his new directorial work as a sequel to “The Siberian Lesson” from 1998. This time his wife finds herself in Argentina as a teacher of Polish. But the main protagonist, from whose point of view the story is told, is eight-year-old Janek, who goes through a classic coming-to-age story when he befriends eleven-year-old Marcia, who bravely copes with social problems. Janek’s father stays behind the camera, with-out voice over and seemingly invisible, which enables him to get incredibly intimate access to his small protagonists’ great dramas.

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Mother’s SongAt her Dad’s funeral, Linda reflects on the past when her dad’s favorite song is played. Dark memories surpass as she discovers that her dad was not as innocent as he seemed.

Point‑of‑Care DiagnosticsA biomedical workshop based film featuring top scientists demonstrating simple diagnostic tools that can enhance expensive disease testing medical equipment in low resource areas

Sculptor Edward Njenga ProfileThe film is about a personality profile of Sculptor Edward Njenga who has a unique collection dating from early 1960s to date. The collection constitutes his sculpting works from the 1960s to present and will present you with moments of the world around us, envi-ronment, lifestyle challenges, history, culture and world of yesteryears in a rare medium: clay, wood and stone. Mzee Njenga is featured doing his work; his collection of sculptures and others who have admired his work.

Burnt ForestA young Kenyan girl discovers that even the closest of relationships can be challenged by Tribal Obligations.

Give me Back My HomeZippy Kimundu, an Independent Filmmaker takes us on her journey back to ‘Burnt Forest’ where her family home was Burnt in 1992 during the Tribal Clashes that broke out in Kenya after the onset of multi-partysim. She was inspired to go back after making her Short Fiction Film “Burnt Forest”, after 19 years of contemplations.

She’s Jazzing Singapore‘Chemu’ a Singapore-based Kenyan Singer leads us into the world of the dominant International Female Immigrant Musicians in Singapore. We learn about their lives on and off stage as they continue to ‘Jazz’ this small island that they now call ‘Home’.

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Festival Experts

NEELIMA MATHUR has worked in the field of media as researcher, writer, ex-ecutive producer and now trainer for nearly three decades. Her career began in the early seventies with one of the doyens of Indian journalism, Late Shri Chalapathi Rau, Editor of the daily newspaper, National Herald, as editor of the Sunday Magazine youth page. During which period she also freelanced as a journalist and critic with Indian newspapers, magazines and the radio.

MARISELLA OUMA is the Executive Director of the Kenya Copyright Board and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She holds a Doctorate in Law from Queen Mary University of London, a Masters in Intellectual Property Law from Stockholm University and an LL.B from the University of Nairobi. Dr. Ouma has consulted widely in Africa and beyond on copyright, industrial property, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. She is a Senior Research Fellow with Copyright Africa and has taught intellectual property at the University of Nairobi.

SAMIRA HADDI is responsible for Mipcom and MipTV in Turkey, Middle East and Africa. She is a film and television programmes marketing expert

HANS BOSSCHER started as director’s assistant and was later production leader at the Zuidelijk Toneel Globe. He then founded the Frascatitheater in Amsterdam and started his own production company to support his theatre. Gradually, the work of the production company shifted to television and film. Bosscher has produced many national and international documentaries, corporate films and commercials. He also spent some time working as a consultant for Endemol Germany and Endemol Sport, after which he spent a few years producing and directing documentaries for Dutch and foreign broadcasting stations, including Discovery International, National Geo-graphic, NHK and PBS. Bosscher currently works as a consultant, editor in chief and director for various Dutch broadcasting stations and government agencies.

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